Lit Mag & Publishing Hub

I have submitted to, read for, and edited at online and print literary magazines for over a decade. Below are selected publications (Read Me), some publications I’ve worked for (Where I’ve Been), and experience I can bring to your publication (What I Do)!

Read Me

I’ve also appeared in print in SIAMB!, Sheepshead Review, and the Dubuque Area Writers Guild’s annual publication (twice!), as well as in the now-defunct online mags FIVE:2:ONE, Quartz Literary, and others.

Where I’ve Been

  • Okay Donkey Magazine (reader)
  • Wrongdoing Magazine (prose editor)
  • Sketch Literary Journal (nonfiction editor)
  • OUT/CAST (co-founding editor)
  • Cleaver Magazine (editorial intern)
  • Pidgeonholes (reader)
  • North American Review (reader)
  • Bridge Eight (reader)

What I Do

My whole thing (abridged): I love being involved with lit mags — reading for them, writing in them, publishing them, all that. But after doing a lot of that, I’d also love to contribute to the lit mag space outside the slush pile in areas that align with my background in libraries, journalism, and/or web development.

(Before we really begin, I know that most lit mag staff are volunteers, so if you’re not paid, I’m not expecting to be paid either.)

  • I have a master’s degree in library science and a journalism background, which means I have a lot of ideas about organizing and marketing in online lit mag publishing:
    • Creating featured contributor pages with past contributors to showcase their new books
    • Indexing all of your contributors to provide another entry point for those who want to read a specific person’s work
    • Curating an interview series with lesser-recognized writers, e.g. writers whose first ever publication appears in your mag (or any other type of writer you’d like to spotlight)
    • Managing a monthly newsletter with links to the latest publications and book/TV/movie recommendations from staff
  • Discord server creation/management:
    • Designing a space for staff to exist together outside of their work, ask questions, & promote their own writing, or where all of your contributors and fans can hang out and talk about writing and publishing (and get notified of new calls for submissions)
    • All those little Discord things — server organization, private channels, roles, bot wrangling, etc.
    • I feel really strongly about establishing an online community as someone whose best lit mag staff experiences have come when I know who I’m “working” with, even if we don’t read the same genre — networking (or just making it easier to become Instagram mutuals) is fun!
  • Website auditing for accessibility, broken links, WordPress blocks that have simply stopped working, plain language — whatever you’d like, really
  • I’m pretty good at Canva, especially in public library marketing; I also made all the graphics for the OUT/CAST Instagram
  • Honestly, I just love some sentiment analysis, number-crunching, visualizations… (I’m not an expert in data analysis yet, but I love getting the experience after doing a lot of it in library school)