We are looking for enthusiastic, and passionate people who are interested in a variety of fields to join our editorial team! Below is information on each position that is currently available. Please read the information thoroughly before applying. When you are ready, click that nice looking button below.
NOTE: Currently only accepting blogger applications!
NOTE: Currently only accepting blogger applications!
We are currently looking for bloggers to join the GKA family! To apply, click here.
Genre Reader
Requirements
- Must have regular access to the Internet
- Must have regular access to e-mail, check at least once per day
- Must be able to devote around 2-4 hours per week of reading, depending on submission rate
- Must be able to communicate openly with editors, editors-in-chief, and fellow staff members
- Must be willing to sacrifice personal preference for the mission of the journal
- Passion for reading works of others
- Experience with reading/editing creative literary works
- Experience with writing creative literary works
- Read submissions/pieces of work (the amount will vary based on how many are received)
- Recommend "Accept," "Reject," or "Revise" after each piece of work
- Write a paragraph to the genre editor & editors-in-chief detailing and explaining your vote
- OPTIONAL: suggest edits to the piece
Visual Arts Editor
Requirements
- Must have regular access to the Internet
- Must have regular access to e-mail, and check it at least once per day
- Must be able to put in 3-5 hours of self-directed work a week, depending on submission rate
- Must be able to communicate openly with editors
- Passion, understanding, and experience with a diverse scope of visual art OR/AND with layout
- Review, evaluate, and manage visual arts submissions
- Decide which visual arts submissions get published in the anthology
- Participate in editor meetings
- Communicate with editors regarding which submissions are to be published
- Decide and format visual art submissions
- Layout the GKA issues
Social Media Liaison
Requirements
- Must have regular access to internet, especially social media platforms
- Must have regular access to email, check at least twice a day
- Must be able to devote around 2-3 hours per week of social media blogging, status updates, etc.
- Must be update editors-in-chief regularly on social media activity
- Must communicate with editors-in-chiefs regularly to be up to date on topics to spread the word about on social media
- Has experience working with a variety of social media platforms.
- Passionate about advertising GKA opportunities, publications, submissions, etc.
- Has interest in GKA, its mission, and its opportunities
- Promote, advertise, and write blog posts/status updates on current GKA news, upcoming events, opportunities, spotlights, published pieces, issues, etc.
- Monitor blog comments on the GKA blog
- Monitor our Facebook page and Tumblr blog. Be willing to add more social media platforms, if necessary.
- Communicate with editors-in-chief to ensure the process is going smoothly, and to get ideas on what to put on social media platforms.
The following positions are open only to current staff members. If you are interested in applying, please send us an email at glasskiteanthology@gmail.com.
Genre Editor
Requirements
- Must have regular access to the Internet
- Must have regular access to e-mail, check at least twice per day
- Must be able to devote around 4-5 hours per week of editing, depending on submission rate
- Must be able to communicate openly with editors, editors-in-chief, and fellow staff members
- Must be willing to sacrifice personal preference over the mission of the journal
- Must be willing to work directly with editors-in-chief, and potentially participate in face-to-face communication
- At least one season (issue) with GKA as a reader for the genre you are applying to as editor
- Passion for reading and editing the works of others
- Familiar with GKA's mission statement, and has a clear idea of which pieces would correspond best with it
- Experience with writing, reading, and editing the creative works of others, as well as their own
- Being the head of their genre (includes guiding the genre in different directions, and communicating with editors-in-chief on new ideas, and focuses)
- Making edits and correcting submissions that have passed through both rounds of evaluations.
- Providing the penultimate vote on a piece's submission status, as well as a short comment explaining why
- Communicating directly with editors-in-chief on which pieces would best fit the anthology's tone, etc
- Commenting on and monitoring their genre readers' performance in evaluating submissions
Managing Editor
Requirements
Preferred Skills & Experience
Responsibilities
- Must have excellent organizational skills
- Must be willing to put in at least 4-5 hours per week of managing and organizing submissions (time depends on amount of submissions)
- Must have regular access to internet
- Will have regular access to GKA's email, glasskiteanthology@gmail.com, must check at least 3 times per day
- Must communicate with editors-in-chief at all times to ensure process is running smoothly
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Organized and precise when dealing with managing submissions
- Experienced with managing submissions/any other medium OR willingness to learn how, and quick to pick it up and employ it
- Able to keep track of submissions, names, dates, etc. in an organized and easy-to-follow method
- Able to prevent bias or personal connections from affecting them when managing submissions
Responsibilities
- Recording down submission information (name of submitter, name of submissions, genre, date submitted, etc.)
- Send submissions to readers for both rounds of evaluations
- Acting as liaison between submission rounds, deciding which pieces go on to the next round of evaluations and which ones do not
- Working with editors-in-chief to check on the process and status submissions
- Sending out acceptance/rejection letters to submitters
