Wormsloe Foundation Acquisitions Internship

The UGA Press seeks a paid intern with a passion for books and publishing to work in our acquisitions department for summer and/or fall 2023 semester as our Wormsloe Foundation Acquisitions Intern. 

It’s a great opportunity for anyone interested in becoming an acquiring editor in the publishing industry. A description of the position is below:

• Interns work 8–10 hours per week providing ongoing support for proposed book
  projects; sending letters to prospective authors, readers, and blurbers; drafting and
  sending decline letters; preparing and shipping manuscripts to reviewers; maintaining project information in the Press database; performing online searches for small research assignments; and helping with image and permissions inventories.
• Interns will work on illustration-heavy manuscripts for the Wormsloe Foundation book series and gain experience researching and logging permissions, communicating with authors, and learning how to evaluate, organize, and prepare art for publication.
  Interns are encouraged to attend in-house meetings with staff and authors.
• Candidates must be comfortable using Microsoft Word and capable of writing clear,
  professional correspondence.

Breakdown of work by time spent:

• 30% developing permissions logs
• 25% drafting letters and internal memos
• 25% Biblio records management
• 20% author communications

To apply, please send résumé and cover letter by March 31 to Bethany Snead (bsnead@uga.edu)  

 

Ralph Haygood Stephens and Eugenia Doughtie Stephens Undergraduate Internship

The UGA Press seeks a paid student intern with a passion for books and publishing to work in our acquisitions editorial and marketing departments for summer and/or fall 2023 semester. Honoring Ralph Haygood Stephens, the third director of the UGA Press (1950-78), this internship focuses on the Press’s creative list (poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction). 

This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in learning more about book publishing. A description of the position is below:

• Interns work 8–10 hours per week providing ongoing support for proposed book projects; sending letters to prospective authors, readers, and blurbers; drafting and sending decline letters; preparing and shipping manuscripts to reviewers; maintaining project information in the Press database; performing online searches for small research assignments; and helping with image and permissions inventories.
• Interns will work on books in our creative list (poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction) in both acquisitions editorial and marketing. Interns will gain experience researching and logging permissions, communicating with authors, and learning how to evaluate, organize, and prepare art for publication.
• Marketing responsibilities will include:
  • Drafting and sending blurb requests to Press and non-Press authors and readers.
  • Assisting marketing in the tracking of blurbs and entering blurbs in the Press database.
  • Compiling and maintaining project information in the Press database.
  • Collecting and placement of author information in marketing folders.
  • Managing manuscript printing and mailing for marketing needs.

• Interns are encouraged to attend in-house meetings with staff and authors and local author events when possible.
• Candidates must be comfortable using Microsoft Word and capable of writing clear, professional correspondence.

Breakdown of work by time spent:

• 25% developing permissions logs
• 20% drafting letters and internal memos
• 20% Biblio records management
• 20% author communications
• 15% marketing activities

To apply, send résumé and cover letter by March 31 to Bethany Snead (bsnead@uga.edu).

  

 

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

The manuscript editorial department at the University of Georgia Press, the oldest and largest publisher of scholarly and general-interest books within the state, seeks interns for approximately 10 hours per week during the summer and/or fall 2023 semester. The Press, which has a staff of 24 publishing professionals,  produces 80-85 books a year and is located in the Main Library.

 

The interns in manuscript editorial will learn the basics about the editorial process as texts accepted for publication move from manuscript to bound book. They will work closely with project editors, who coordinate the work of freelance copyeditors and authors to provide a final manuscript to production and then shepherd the project through the design and production stages. Interns will study crucial sections of the Chicago Manual of Style and learn to apply it to ensure consistency and correctness, and they will also learn the basics of coding design elements and tracking track art, permissions, and other materials on a given project.

 

Tasks will vary, but the interns will aid the department with such things as the following:

• Reviewing various stages of page proofs and coordinating page proof corrections
• Proofreading some books
• Editing and proofreading indexes
• Reviewing advance copies of books
• Filing and closing files

 

Requirements:

The candidate must be a full-time student at UGA and should have a minimum 3.00 GPA; a working knowledge of Microsoft Word; a thorough understanding of grammar, spelling, and punctuation; an ability to attend to detail; and an interest in publishing. A proofreading test will be required.

 

If interested, send résumé and cover letter by March 31 to Jon Davies (jdavies@uga.edu).

 

MARKETING INTERNSHIP

The UGA Press marketing department is looking for interns for the summer and/or fall 2023 semester. The Press publishes more than 70 national trade, regional trade, academic impact, and scholarly monographs a year and there are opportunities to work in a variety of areas to market those titles, which include: publicity, social media, email marketing, content creation, author events, bookseller outreach, and more. Experience from these internships can translate well to marketing jobs in other art and entertainment industries. Students will be eligible for experiential learning credit. Interns typically work 10-15 hours per week. Internship details are as follows:

 

Publicity, Sales, and Direct Mail:

• Will work with the publicity manager to research and carry out publicity campaigns for new books.
• Create mailing lists of potential reviewers for books among trade media and scholarly journals.
• Manage and send review copy requests for new titles.
• Help book, plan, and coordinate author events and signings.
• Mailings of ARCs (advanced reader copies) and other materials for forthcoming titles to select booksellers.
• Help manage and execute course adoption campaigns to professors for select titles.

 

Social Media:

• Will help with daily posting to social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads.
• Institutional or professional experience posting to social media a plus.
• Familiarity with Hootsuite for scheduling social media posts a plus.
• Will help create social media and email marketing campaigns around specific titles.
• Opportunities to contribute original posts to UGA Press's blog.
• Design skills (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) a plus.
• Working knowledge of Emma or other email marketing platforms plus.

 

Applicants should send a cover letter and resume or related questions to Jason Bennett (jason.bennett@uga.edu) by March 31. 

 

The Katharine and Alan Elsas Internship in Book Design and Production 

The University of Georgia Press seeks a paid intern for fall semester 2023 from the graphic design program at Lamar Dodd School of Art to provide support for all aspects of the book design and production process.

 

Intern will have the opportunity to work with book design and production professionals and will learn:

• • basics of book design, including cover design and interior design
  • typesetting conventions specific to bookmaking 
  • illustration program management, from analysis of reproducibility to prepress preparation
  • quality control measures for different stages of proofs and samples
• Under the mentorship of staff designers, intern will create at least one book cover to include in student's professional portfolio.
• Intern will assist cover designers with finding appropriate art for book covers and with obtaining permission to use chosen images.
• Intern will prepare print-ready interior and cover files for restocks and reprints.
• Intern will provide some clerical support for design and production staff, which may include filing and entering book specifications into press-wide database.
• Intern will be expected to work ten to twelve hours per week in flexible but predictable shifts from Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• The ideal candidate will have demonstrated potential in graphic design and experience using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. Knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Acrobat and Microsoft Excel and Word are also preferred. Good communication skills and attention to detail are required. 

To apply, send portfolio (weblink or PDF), résumé, name and contact information for two references, and cover letter by March 31 to Melissa Buchanan (melissa.buchanan@uga.edu).