Speculative Literature Intern
In this internship, a student would work with English professor Mary Anne Mohanraj, Executive Director of the SLF, learning basic and advanced skills useful in the fields of arts administration and publishing. Their main manager will be Connor Nevitt, SLF Managing Director (and former UIC student).
In this internship, the student would potentially work on the following projects:
- building out an online creative writing teaching resource
- setting up readings and literary festivals
- drafting programs and press releases
- directly fund-raising from members through internet and print
- growing a small press co-operative
- drafting non-profit grant applications
- organizing international translation programs
- organizing mentorship programs for new and emerging writers
- developing online classifieds section for writers/editors/readers
- reading and assessing grant applications
- supervising and facilitating a joint blog
- developing new programs
- designing graphics in Canva
- creating show notes for podcast episodes
- assisting in setting up and striking for live events
- helping with social media marketing
- expanding our online presence into platforms like Instagram and TikTok (especially BookTok)
- evaluating and maintaining existing programs
The SLF (Speculative Literature Foundation, www.speclit.org) supports speculative literature; speculative literature is a catch-all term meant to inclusively span the breadth of fantastic literature, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy to ghost stories to horror to folk and fairy tales to slipstream to magical realism to modern myth-making -- and more. (Any piece of literature containing a fabulist or speculative element would fall under our aegis, and would potentially be work that we would be interested in supporting.)
Interns would primarily be working over Zoom, and should be available for weekly virtual check-ins, in the city. This internship can accommodate up to 3 students in 2026.
March-August, 2-5 hours / week, $20 / hr.
Learn more about the SLF at www.speclit.org.
If you're interested, reach out to Connor Nevitt at managing_dir@speculativeliterature.org