Middlebury students can get involved in the New England Review in various ways throughout the year. Please see below for details about our internships, discussion group, student-produced podcast, NER Out Loud program, and events. Read about our current and past interns in our “Meet the Interns” and “Where Are They Now” interview series.

INTERNSHIPS

New England Review internships offer current Middlebury students valuable experience in arts administration, editorial work, podcast production, marketing and publicity, and more. We encourage interested students to review the descriptions below before applying:

Fall and spring semester interns perform a variety of tasks related to the quarterly print publication and website, including creating posts in WordPress, proofreading and fact-checking texts, assistance with events, editing video and audio, and other duties as assigned. (Paid position, four hours a week, apply on Workable.)

Summer interns work on special projects, to be determined each year based on need and interest. They will also assist with social media and event planning, while also performing a variety of tasks related to the quarterly print publication and website. There will be some administrative office work, but also lots of room for creativity for students who are interested in contemporary literature. (Paid position, fifteen hours a week, apply on Workable.)

Winter editorial interns focus on various editorial aspects of New England Review, a quarterly literary journal published by Middlebury College. Interns will read and evaluate manuscripts submitted to the magazine and will write up readers’ reports for their assigned submissions. They’ll have a chance to discuss these submissions with various members of the NER staff and with other student interns. They’ll also learn the basics of copyediting and the Chicago Manual of Style by working with texts for the magazine. This is not a paid position but can be taken for credit, with approval from an academic advisor. (Apply on Handshake.)

Please note that these positions come and go on Workable and Handshake as they are available. If you’d like to be added to a list to be alerted when they go live, please email nereview@middlebury.edu.

Former NER interns. L to R: Leila Markosian, Rahat Huda, Farid Noori, Nick Kaye

READING GROUP

Students in our reading group read and evaluate manuscripts submitted to the New England Review for possible publication. Participants are assigned five or six manuscripts in a given genre (poetry, fiction, or nonfiction) for each session, and then they meet with NER editorial staff on Zoom to discuss them and determine which, if any, we might like to publish in the New England Review. We meet and talk about a batch of submissions approximately every other week, during fall and spring semesters.

Interested in joining our reading group? Email Carolyn Kuebler, editor, at: ckuebler@middlebury.edu.

Reading group participants & former NER interns. L to R: Gavin Richards, Cali Jantzen, Sarah Miller, & Emma Johnson

NER OUT LOUD and STUDENT READING SERIES

NER Out Loud is a collaboration of the New England Review, Middlebury’s Mahaney Arts Center, and Oratory Now. In the tradition of NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” Middlebury student actors read selections from the New England Review in a live performance, and student writers read from their own work.

Each semester, our interns also produce a Student Reading Series event, in which creative writers share their work in a special evening reading and open mic in the NER office.

Interested in participating in NER Out Loud? Email Carolyn Kuebler, editor at: ckuebler@middlebury.edu.

CURRENT AND FORMER INTERNS

Learn more about current and former NER interns through our “Meet the Interns” and “NER Interns: Where are they now?” interview series.