Applications
Joining Nass Lit
The Nassau Literary Review‘s staff is divided into three sections: staff writers, the Editorial Team, and the Administrative Team. At the beginning of each semester, we accept applications for available positions.
Staff writers form the majority of Nass Lit’s staff and have the exciting opportunity to publish essays on our website. Some of these essays will also be selected for publication in the bi-annual magazine. Staff writing comes in all shapes and sizes: personal essays with cultural or political relevance; reviews that use a contemporary book, film, or play as a jumping-off point to examine an idea; and critical essays on the relationship between art and science, or the future of poetry, or whatever else comes to our writers’ minds. Regardless, these essays aim to be in-depth and intellectually stimulating. We’re looking for writers with unique voices, unusual areas of cultural/intellectual expertise, and a passion for ideas. Put simply, we’re looking for writers we’d want to publish.
The Editorial Team is a group of about 10 editors (prose editor and assistant, poetry editor and assistant, design editor and assistants, etc.) who work together to create our print magazine. This process includes deciding on an issue’s theme, finalizing content, designing and laying out the magazine, and so on. Nass Lit readers work under the direction of their respective section editors to select prose, poetry, and art from student submissions.
The Administrative Team consists of all positions that handle the administrative tasks of the magazine: Managing Editors, Publicity Managers, and Web Master are a few examples. Nass Lit staff can also take part in event planning committees that involve organizing readings, inviting speakers, planning our annual festival, and more.
How to Apply
Our fall application period is now closed. Please check back next January for information about our spring application period.