S241. New Recruits: How Literary Organizations Train and Motivate Students and Volunteers

Room 607, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
Saturday, March 1, 2014
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

Program directors from Indiana Review, New Harmony Writers Workshop, New England Review, Pleiades, Pleiades Press, Southern Indiana Review, and SIR Press will address strategies for the vision and implementation of an effective student or volunteer workforce, a fiscal necessity in the current climate of staff cuts and budget reductions, including recruitment, motivation, best practices, assessment, and unexpected challenges. Topics will include production, funding, web design, and marketing.


Participants

Moderator:

Ron Mitchell, formerly muscle for the IRS, is the editor of Southern Indiana Review and SIR Press. He teaches creative writing and literary publishing at the University of Southern Indiana and is the assistant-director of the New Harmony Writers Workshop.

Phong Nguyen is the author of Memory Sickness & Other Stories and Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History. He is co-editor of Pleiades Press, for which he edited the book Nancy Hale: The Life and Work of a Lost American Master. He teaches creative writing at the University of Central Missouri.

Jennifer Luebbers recently served as editor of Indiana Review. She has been awarded the Diane Middlebrook Fellowship in Poetry from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing for the 2013-14 academic year.

Marcus Wicker is the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing, selected by DA Powell for the National Poetry Series. His awards include a Pushcart Prize and Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and he is assistant professor of English at University of Southern Indiana and poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review.

Carolyn Kuebler is the editor of New England Review. Before coming to NER as managing editor in 2004, she was an editor at Library Journal and founding editor of Rain Taxi. She has published her writing in various magazines and has an essay forthcoming in The Little Magazine: A Contemporary Guide.

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