[Cwgrad-announcements] CRATE Deadline: Friday, 10/13

[Ky-Phong Tran]

Dear MFA'ers,

   A reminder that the application deadline for the 2006-07 CRATE Editorial staff is this coming friday, October 13.  Apply and gain valuable editting experience, which is often required for faculty and editorial positions.  And trust me, this issue is going to be a good one.
  Also, please note that there are Assistant Editor positions for Art, Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Poetry. (I didn't list them because I planned on picking from the other applicants, but please feel free to apply for an assistant position).  And if you know of any other qualified grad students, especially webmasters and layout artists, please forward this to them.

Best,
Ky-Phong

WANTED 

- CRATE Editorial Staff –

       *Lay-Out/Design Editor          *Fiction Editor

* Poetry Editor           *Visual Arts Editor

* Non-Fiction Editor         *Outreach/Events Manager

         * Development Manager       * Undergraduate Interns

                          * Web Designer/Webmaster


CRATE—UC Riverside's Graduate Arts and Literary Journal—is looking for its
2006 -07 Editorial Staff.  Dedicated to exploring the borders and boundaries of art and literature, this edition's theme is "Margins and Mainstreams," especially relevant in light of the current state of immigration, war, terror, and surveillance.

In a series of lectures at Amherst College, historian Gary Okihiro argues that "The Core values and ideals of the nation emanate NOT from the mainstream but from the margins."

As a university on the eastern edge of Los Angeles sprawl; as emerging graduate programs in Creative Writing, Arts, Dance, English, Comparative Literature, and History; as young public intellectuals and artists at the beginning of our careers, we are both margin and mainstream.

Within contemporary art and literature, who is marginalized and who is mainstreamed?  Who decides?  What do the new voices of a post-racial, post-colonial, current war state generation have to say?  

Join the CRATE Editorial Staff to be part of this dynamic discussion and gain valuable editing and production experience.  To apply, please send in a cover letter with a) short bio and contact info b) the position applying for and relevant experience and c) your interpretation of the theme "Margins and Mainstreams” and any additional creative ideas.

Please email applications (or any questions) to crate.journal at gmail.com by October 13, 2006.  For position descriptions, please see back page.



CRATE Editorial Staff

Positions Available: 

Fiction Editor is responsible for reading and selecting all fiction submissions in collaboration with staff.  

Poetry Editor is responsible for reading and selecting all poetry submissions in collaboration with staff.  

Non-Fiction Editor is responsible for reading and selecting all non-fiction submissions in collaboration with staff.  This is the most open of forms and can include essays, interviews, creative and narrative non-fiction.

Lay-Out/Design Editor is responsible for the overall look and feel of CRATE.  Not only should the work inside be of the highest literary quality, but the design, form, and function of the journal should be top-notch as well.  CRATE hould look great on a living room table and pull readers in.

Visual Arts Editor is responsible for selecting all photography and visual arts submissions in collaboration with staff.  Will work closely with Lay-Out/Design Editor to produce the aesthetic of the CRATE.

Outreach/Events Manager is responsible for front and back end outreach for the journal.  This entails getting call for submissions out to as many resources as possible, promoting and placing CRATE in Southern California, California, West Coast, and national books stores and universities.  Also for scheduling premiere and readings

Development Manager is responsible for managing grants and other funding sources that make CRATE possible.

Web Designer/Webmaster is responsible for CRATE's new website and management.  Will work closely with Lay-Out/Design Editor and Visual Arts Editor.  Open to undergraduats and graduate students.

Undergraduate Interns (2) will work with various editors to gain editorial experience in at least production stages.  

Editor-in-Chief is Ky-Phong Tran a second year MFA student in Creative Writing with an emphasis in fiction.  He is working on a novel and short story collection.  He recently won a Byrd Scholarship to the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.   He will be coordinating the 2006-07 CRATE staff. 

Managing Editor/Multimedia Editor is Ruben Quesada a second year MFA student in Creative Writing with an emphasis is poetry.  He has most recently been a Fellow at the Idyllwild Poetry Conference.  He will be managing production as well as the editing the multimedia CRATE cd-rom.