YouthWrite is looking for a creative and enthusiastic person to edit YouthWrite: The Magazine, 2023-2024 Edition in preparation for summer 2024. This position requires someone who can work on self-directed projects but also under direction and under seasonal deadline pressure. Excellence in editing, copy writing, proofreading, graphic design and magazine layout and design is necessary, as well as solid experience working in Canva or Adobe. An understanding of our camps, our clients, sponsors and our non-profit arts organization is recommended, and an ideal candidate will have or be in the process of attaining a degree in communications, design, or arts and cultural management.

By the end of the internship, YouthWrite: the Magazine will be sent to print and produced. You'll have a professional document (tearsheet) for your portfolio and will have professional editorial, layout and design experience.

1.     Review copy and submissions from YouthWrite participants, work that young writers created during our previous season of YouthWrite summer camps. Edit for length, grammar, conventions.

2.    Review artwork and photographs from camp participants and camp archives. Make selections of photographs to include.

3.    With an eye to maintaining the summer theme brand, design and layout each page of the 24-page magazine, adding graphics and digital images of your choice, while catering to the youth audience.

4.    Include the many and major sponsors' logos on the final page of the magazine with attention to logo protocols for each organization/business.

5.    Submit a first polished draft to the Director-Coordinator at the beginning of May 2024, and edit according to suggestions from the communications team.

6.   Submit the final draft to the Director-Coordinator for printing by end of May 2024.

1.     The Director-Coordinator will provide five+ hours of mentorship time for the magazine editor and will provide access to photographs, visual design and branding elements, student submissions of writing as well as sample magazines and templates from past magazine volumes. YouthWrite believes in and values relationships, so discussions, questions, meetings and informal chats are welcome and encouraged so that the student editor feels part of the YouthWrite team and organization.

2.    Consultation and discussions with the Director-Coordinator will be ongoing (either virtual, in-person, or via Zoom).

3.    The magazine editor will have access to YouthWrite's professional Canva, Adobe images, and Dropbox/OneDrive accounts for storage, retrieval, and design purposes.