SWWIM: AV/Photography

Responsibilities include livestreaming meet-the-artist conversations and poetry readings (7-8 per academic year) from The Betsy Hotel (South Beach), taking photos at the events, as well as editing, uploading, and sharing photos and videos. The time commitment is generally one evening per month onsite at The Betsy Hotel and a few hours offsite. (Note: The in-person time commitment is non-negotiable: 11/8/23, 12/19/23, 2/7/24, 3/6/24, and 4/10/24 from 5:30-9:00 PM.)

Skills required: social media fluency, livestreaming capability, photography, photo and video editing, time management, organization.

Mentorship: This intern will meet with our Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, Catherine Esposito Prescott, before and after events (about twice a month) and on an as-needed basis.

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SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami) was co-founded by Jen Karetnick and Catherine Esposito Prescott. SWWIM publishes, promotes, and celebrates women-identifying writers and all gender-expansive definitions of that term with a year-round reading series held at The Betsy-South Beach in Miami Beach, FL and the online poetry journal SWWIM Every Day.

Poems first published in SWWIM Every Day have been included in Best American Poetry and the Best American Poetry blog, Best of the Net, Best Spiritual Literature, The Orison Anthology, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, Substack Reads, The Writer’s Almanac, and Women's Voices for Change, among other anthologies, podcasts, and columns, and have garnered Pushcart nominations from contributing editors.

Learn more at https://www.swwim.org/ and follow us on Instagram, X, Facebook, BlueSky & Threads.