ENGL 19900 - Apprenticeship in Editing A Literary Magazine

Course Credit: 0.25
This course provides an opportunity for students to serve as an assistant editor for the Artful Dodge, a nationally-distributed journal of new American writing, graphics, and literature in translation. Students are exposed to the daily operations of editing a professional literary publication, engaging in a number of important activities such as designing and developing the magazine’s web-site, editorial and promotional copy-writing, evaluating manuscripts, typesetting and proofreading, and organizing off-campus literary events. Students read histories of the American literary journal in addition to exploring other currently-published literary magazines. Annually. [AH]