February 1980 
Who Said It?
AWP
Each issue AWP will publish and illustrate the best "quote of the month" submitted by a reader.
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A Foot in the Door: The Radcliffee Publishing Procedures Course
AWP Editor
A student team in the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course might find itself being asked by a member of the faculty - someone like the publisher of Texas Monthly, for instance - "Did you have fun? Magazines should be fun..." The project may or may not have been fun, but certainly it will have been demanding. In one PPC alumna's words: "It's invigorating. It's good practice. It's realistic. In advance we all hear the Course will be demanding.
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Some Statistics on Teaching Jobs
AWP Editor
Information published in Profession 79, a publication of the Modern Language Association, shows that there were more tenure-accruing assistant professorships in creative writing advertised in the 1977-78 MLA Job Information Lists than there were in any of the following areas: Old and Middle English Literature, American Literature, Colonial or 19th Century American Literature, Modern British and/or American Literature, Literary Criticism, Drama, Comparative Literature, Black Studies, Folklore, English Education, Technical Writing, Children's Literature, Canadian Literature, ESL/TESL, Communications, American Studies, Reading, Developmental English, Women's Studies, or Film.
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Book Publishing: An Alternative to Academe?
Hugh Howard
So you've thought about trying to get into book publishing. You think it might allow you to remain close to the Written Word, yet pay your rent and bar bills. You expect your graduate degree in lit will be of some worth in a profession where, it would seem, there's a premium on literacy. You anticipate meeting and mingling with writers. Perhaps you even hope to get an opportunity to do some writing yourself.
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