• Maura Nolan
• Kathleen Donegan
• Eric Falci

Professor Maura Nolan

Maura Nolan, the Director of the Chernin Mentoring Program, is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Berkeley who specializes in medieval literature, particularly the poetry of the 14th-16th centuries. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 1998, and was an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame until coming to Berkeley in 2005.

Her research covers a wide range of topics; her first book, John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005, and she is currently working on two additional monographs: a book on John Gower and a reader's guide to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, under contract with Cambridge. Nolan has co-edited two collections of essays, The Text in the Community (with Jill Mann, published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2005), and Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann (with Chris Cannon, forthcoming from Boydell and Brewer). She has published essays on Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, Langland, F. W. Maitland, and Theodor Adorno, and on medieval notions of beauty, on the emergence of literary style in the later Middle Ages, on historicist approaches to medieval literature, and on medieval law. From 2004-05, Nolan was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; in 2008, she received the President's Fellowship from the University of California.

Nolan brings to the Chernin Program her extensive background in teaching at three different universities, as well as her advising experience at Duke and Notre Dame. The courses she has taught range from large lecture surveys, in which she mentors a staff of Graduate Student Instructors who assist with the class, to freshmen, junior, and senior seminars as well as independently advised Honors Theses. She has taught and advised graduate students extensively, and participated in workshops to enhance graduate student pedagogy. At Berkeley, she has been delighted by her undergraduate students, and she looks forward to helping students choose the intellectual paths that serve them best, both in the present and in their futures.

Professor Kathleen Donegan

Kathleen Donegan writes and teaches about literature and culture in early America, from New World encounters through the first decades of the republic. Her special interest is in the early seventeenth century settlement -- and un-settlement -- of English peoples on Native lands. Professor Donegan is currently working on a book entitled Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and the Writing of Settlement in Colonial America which investigates the relationship between suffering and violence in these outposts and contact zones and the role of misery in constituting colonial subjectivity. She teaches courses on early American women writers; captivity, slavery and piracy; the colonial Atlantic world; racial formation in early America; and is working on an edited collection of colonial shipwreck narratives.

Professor Eric Falci

Professor Falci is an expert in the history of the Irish poetic tradition, the mediations between Irish poetry and Irish history, and the cultural figure of the poet in Ireland. More generally, gravitates towards post-World War II poetry in English. He is currently completing a book project entitled The Double Page: Form and Counterform in Contemporary Irish Poetry, which accounts for Irish poetry after Yeats by showing how a set of polemical arguments about the figure of the Irish poet and the body of Irish poetry that take place from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s becomes a set of formal and compositional strategies for a group of poets who began writing and publishing in the mid-1970s. He is beginning work on a second book project on the conjunctions and disjunctions between poetry and music.



2011-2012 Chernin Fellow Biographies

Before pursuing graduate study in the English Department, Alex Benson earned his B.A. in Rhetoric at Berkeley. So he brings to the mentorship role local knowledge from having been a Cal undergraduate and made the Bay Area his home for a number of years now. Over that time he’s worked jobs, internships, and volunteer positions at non-profits and small record labels around the area—not to mention at Doe Library and KALX here on campus—and ever since a college internship at UC Press he’s been almost continuously involved, in one capacity or another, in academic publishing. It’s given him not only exposure to a variety of fields of study but also a sense of scholarship in the humanities as something that’s possibly, if by no means always, a collaborative enterprise, which is one of the reasons he’s particularly excited about the kinds of intellectual dialogue and community made possible by the Chernin program. As an undergraduate he would have loved to have access to a program of its kind. He specializes in late 19^th- and early 20^th-century American literature, and his dissertation explores the relationship between theories of cultural difference and the representation of speech in American literature and anthropology at the turn of the last century. In 2011 he received Berkeley’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.

Lynn Huang specializes in the history of the book, material culture, and reading and circulation practices.  Her dissertation explores the role of the disembodied spectator in eighteenth-century British fiction and the ways in which it seeks to shape reading audiences.  Since 2009, she has coordinated a Townsend Center Working Group on the history of the book and of reading, and was the recipient of a Rare Book School Scholarship from the University of Virginia (2009).  In 2011, Lyn won both a Teaching Effectiveness Award and the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.  She won several undergraduate research prizes while at the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in English and minored in Spanish, and her essay, “Between Manuscript and Print: George Gascoigne as the Professional Poet,” appears in Res: A Journal of Undergraduate Research (Spring 2004).  She has taught one Reading and Composition course entitled “Reading Readers,” which involved representations of readers and studies of reader response, and another called “Reading Beyond the Text,” which focused on paratexts.  She has been a Graduate Student Instructor for English 45B, “Literature in English: 1700 through 1850,” and English 125A, “The English Novel: Defoe through Scott.”  In the summers, Lynn designs and teaches intensive courses, such as “Utopias and Dystopias” and “The Graphic Novel,” at CTY (Center for Talented Youth), a Johns Hopkins University program.  Before attending Cal, Lynn taught eighth grade English through Teach for America and simultaneously earned a Master of Science in Teaching (MST) degree in Secondary English from Pace University’s School of Education.  She writes that she owes “many of my accomplishments to the strong mentors I’ve been lucky enough to work with. Growing up with non-English-speaking parents posed many challenges, and my mentors played an incredibly important role in shaping my life, academically and otherwise.”

Nick Junkerman is a sixth year graduate student in the Berkeley English department.  His dissertation deals with the interpretation and narration of supernatural experience in 18^th-Century American literature.  He has taught courses at Berkeley on the short story and on the persistence of magic as a theme in American writing.  He has also taught for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison, which offers free college courses to incarcerated students.  He received the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award in 2010.  Nick writes, "it's hard to overstate the importance of mentoring.  I've had essential help from mentors in every phase of my education.  I'm looking forward to starting to repay my debt to them, and to seeing the mentoring relationship from the other side."

Sookyoung Lee (Soo) is in her sixth year in the doctoral program in the English department, where she specializes in 20^th-century British literature.  Her dissertation examines late forms of Realism in British Modernist novels, and their relationship to the continental bildungsroman trope and to Kierkegaard’s philosophy of inwardness and subjectivity.  Despite studying philosophical works steeped in modern angst and despair, Soo remains utterly idealistic.  She chalks this up to the active and intensely engaged atmosphere that characterizes Berkeley as well as to her undergraduate experience at Swarthmore, where she studied literature and art history.  The strong tradition of social and ethical responsibility at both institutions and her interactions with her students, have imparted her with a deep commitment to teaching and a belief in the inseparability of criticality and idealism.  Soo has taught sections of 45A and B, Modern Poetry, and R1A and B, for which she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Instructor award.  She has been coordinating the working group for the Frankfurt School of Critical and Aesthetic Theory for several years.  This fall will be her fourth semester teaching for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison, where she has taught composition and, most recently, designed and taught a pilot-class on interdisciplinary research in the social sciences.  Before attending Berkeley, Soo taught middle and high school students in Seoul, Korea.  As a mentor, Soo would like to share with her mentees the sense that learning outside the classroom is imperative to be able to understand texts in relation to our world.  For this reason, she is a firm believer in the value of “useless” activities and in the rigorous pursuit of non-professional “distractions.”  She has cycled and camped her way across the country, practices boxing and Muay Thai on a regular basis, sends sentimental postcards and hand-written letters to old friends, sings bawdy rugby songs with former teammates over the phone, and whenever possible, loses herself somewhere in the hills to draw and write poetry.

Manya Lempert was born and raised in Berkeley and majored in English and French at Stanford. She has tutored middle and high school students in creative writing, analytical writing, and test prep throughout the Bay Area, and has brought Berkeley and Stanford students together for conferences and discussions. She loves the intimacy and fun of the classroom, and continues to audit Cal courses in a variety of disciplines; she has won both the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2010) and the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2011).  As a section leader in lower and upper-division English courses, she has taught 19^th- and 20^th-century literature, and the 18^th-century novel.  Her own Reading & Composition classes have combined ancient philosophy and modernist novels of consciousness, and ask what makes for a life well lived. She studies Victorian and modernist fiction, the Enlightenment and secularization, and relationships between philosophy and literature, and is developing an interest in science’s influence on fiction.  She remains fascinated by novels’ entanglements with ethical questions, and by the role of imagination in the affirmation of life; her dissertation compares writers’ responses to existential pessimism, and their presentations of the natural world and of human nature.  She is eager to share the Bay Area’s vibrant cultural life with her students, and to see undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and alumni joined in face-to-face conversation—because of a common love of literature!  She understands that feeling at home in a very large university is no easy feat, and so belonging to a smaller band of explorers, who tap into the intellectual excitement of the English major and the campus, can greatly improve college life.              

Jill Richards works on poetics, transnational modernism, avant-gardes, and citizenship.  Her dissertation project is entitled, “Character Effects: Personality and Experiment Beyond the Novel.”  It considers the status of flat, minor, warped, or incoherent characters across a range of genre-bending works, including manifestos, photographic-essays, prose poems, and a multi-media memoir.  She has peripheral academic interests in television studies, zombie films, and apocalyptic genres more generally.  Jill has worked with students of almost every age, in many different capacities.  As a high school student in Texas, she participated in a theater troupe that wrote and performed plays for at-risk middle school students.  As an undergraduate at NYU, she tutored third grade reading and math at the University Settlement House, an organization that provides services for immigrant families on Manhattan’s lower east side.  While studying abroad, she tutored French lycée students in English.  At Berkeley, she has led two discussion sections, taught three R&C classes, and co-organized the Frankfurt School Working Group.  Two summers ago, she taught a SAT preparation “boot-camp” to over a hundred high school students in Fremont.  More recently, she has taught several semesters of 99A, the introductory composition class for the Prison University Project at San Quentin.  During this time, she has also served as a teaching mentor for new instructors at San Quentin.  She has won the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2011), a Summer Mellon Dissertation Seminar Fund (2011), and the Joel Fineman Prize for best essay by a first-year graduate student, U.C. Berkeley (2008).  About her interest in undergraduate mentoring, Jill writes: “What links my pedagogical projects is the way they serve populations that experience themselves as misfit in a traditional academic setting. I suspect this sense of the misfit is the norm rather than an aberration, especially at large institutions like Berkeley…I am interested in the Chernin program for the way it looks to lessen the anomie and confusion of student life. Across my various educational endeavors, I’ve found that the ability to locate one’s bearings, to locate a more intimate community of recognizable faces, to ask questions, and, finally, to feel oneself empowered to answer them, certainly makes a world of difference.”



Chernin Program Syllabus, Fall, 2011



Chernin Event Videos:

• Chernin Career Panel - December 1, 2010
• Professors in Dialogue, February 23, 2011
• The Book that Made Me a Professor: Professors O'Brien O'Keeffe and Ellis
• The Book that Made Me a Professor: Professors Best and Goodman
• Spring Career Panel



Summer Internships

The Chernin Mentoring Program is interested in helping students explore many aspects of academic study and professional preparation, including summer internships. What follows is a preliminary list of internship opportunities that your mentors have researched, or that your fellow Chernin students have held. The list is a work in progress, and you are our best resource! Please continue to send links and descriptions of internships that would be of interest to English majors.

A few tips:

• Read the fine print. We have not vetted these programs in any way, and the list below should be read as a set of research leads rather than as endorsements of these programs.
• Conduct your own research. The Berkeley Career Center is a great place to start. Visit their website: https://career.berkeley.edu/Internships/Internships.stm. Or stop by the office for an individualized Career Counseling Appointment.
• Network. Ask your classmates about their internship experiences.
• See the February edition of The Chernin Files for further ideas about finding internships, available at http://english.berkeley.edu/Chernin/chernin_files.html.

Opportunities at UC Berkeley:

Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program

http://research.berkeley.edu/urap/

URAP is one of the best ways undergraduate English majors can connect with faculty, learn valuable research and archival skills, improve their resumes/scholarship applications, receive academic mentorship, and get a glimpse of what conducting a senior thesis or entering graduate school in the humanities will entail. The program pairs undergraduate students with faculty on research projects.

GROUP Apprenticeships through the Townsend Center for the Humanities

http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/apprenticeshipgrant.shtml

The Townsend Center's G.R.O.U.P. Summer Apprenticeships Program pairs faculty members and undergraduate students in summer research projects, allowing students to develop new skills under the guidance of a faculty mentor and to experience the rigor and excitement of academic research in an area of their interest.

McNair Scholars Program

http://aap.berkeley.edu/mcnair.shtml

Competitive program to select UC Berkeley undergraduates for doctoral study. The program aims to increase numbers of groups underrepresented in doctoral programs.

SAGE Internship Program

http://sagescholars.berkeley.edu/program-areas/internships

Companies and organizations partner with UC Berkeley's SAGE Scholars Program by offering paid internships to the SAGE Scholars in their field of study in addition to making an annual contribution to the SAGE Scholar's Fund at UC Berkeley. Through these partnerships business sponsors will provide invaluable business experience and training, as well as strong mentoring. SAGE Scholars will also participate in career workshops at UC Berkeley, specially designed to enhance their business and leadership skills.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)

http://research.berkeley.edu/surf/SURFinfo.html

SURF offers summer stipends to support undergraduate students' concentrated research in preparation for a senior thesis or another major capstone research project. SURF awards will go to students who have an interesting research question, a well-conceived research plan, and clear faculty support.

Gender Equity Resource Center

http://geneq.berkeley.edu/internships

The Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq) is a Cal Community Center providing programs, resources and services for and about the Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities, as well as, sexual and hate/bias motivated harassment and violence. GenEq is a fast-paced and dynamic work environment where we promote brave spaces for dialogue and mutual understanding. Interns should possess those personal qualities that will aid in effectively and affably relating those who seek assistance through the GenEq. These qualities should include mature judgment, sensitivity to others, appreciation for a diverse student body, and knowledge of issues affecting women and LGBT persons. We are looking for passionate individuals who are committed to issues of social justice and are motivated to make social change within our communities.

Opportunities beyond UCB

Chernin Entertainment

Chernin Entertainment will be seeking interns to work with our feature film and television departments in Summer 2012. Candidates should have strong communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities include:

Reading scripts and providing both verbal and written coverage.

Administrative duties, including reception and desk coverage, copying, filing and limited runs.

Combing periodicals for story ideas

Compiling research

Attending internal creative meetings

 

Positions are unpaid, and candidates must be eligible to receive academic credit. Please email resumes and availability to Sandi Howk at sh@cherninent.comno later than March 31^st, 2012 for Summer 2012 consideration.

Chernin Entertainment produces television programs and feature films. Its current slate of television shows includes the breakout hit comedy New Girl, A&E’s Breakout Kings, and Fox’s new series Terra Nova and Allen Gregory.  Fox will air the highly anticipated Touch, starring Keifer Sutherland, in spring 2012. 

Peter Chernin, along with Dylan Clark, produced the company's first feature film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which was released in August 2011.  The film received critical acclaim and has grossed over $430 million worldwide as of October 2011.

 

Internship with ActBlue

ActBlue seeks Spring 2012 intern!

(Note that we may have other internships in the future, so keep checking our website, below, for more information!)

ActBlue, the nation’s largest source of funds for Democrats, is seeking a dedicated student intern for the spring of 2012.

Since 2004, ActBlue has sent over $208 million to Democratic campaigns and committees. We work with thousands of campaigns, donors, and fundraisers to build the Democratic Party and empower small dollar donors across the country. Come join our team and work in a fast-paced, reactive environment to change our country!

Major responsibilities will include:

• Customer service for contributors, fundraisers, and political committees
   
• Researching and tracking candidates
   
• Long-term political research assignments
   
• Supporting our political department
   
• Other tasks as assigned

 

Key qualities we’re looking for:

• Strong oral communication and creative problem solving skills
   
• Attention to detail and organizational prowess
   
• A proactive personality and willingness to do whatever needs to be done
   
• Familiarity with electoral politics and commitment to Democratic victory
   
• Research experience preferred, but not required
   

 

We are looking for a student in the Boston area who is dedicated to Democratic victory and interested in being part of our team. We are an open and freewheeling office, so a sense of humor is a must! Applicants must be able to commit 10 to 15 hours per week, including Monday afternoons. The position is paid, and ActBlue is willing to work with your university for credit, where applicable.

If you would like to help secure Democratic victory, please send a cover letter and resume to internships@actblue.com. Applications will be processed on a rolling basis, but all applications must be received by Friday, December 9th. Candidates will be contacted if selected for an interview, and all applicants will be notified when the position is filled. We look forward to hearing from you!

Check out our website at https://secure.actblue.com/content/jobs (for jobs) or www.actblue.com (for general information).

 

 

Part-time positions with Americorps

We have part-time AmeriCorps service positions available at UC Berkeley, and we’re looking for the best and brightest students to join our program.  You  can find out more by visitingour website. Students who are interested can apply by clicking here.

Energy Service Corps is a joint project of CALPIRG and AmeriCorps. Our goal is to reduce energy use here in Merced and across the state.   Energy Service Corps members serve for four months to twelve months and upon completion of their service, receive a $1,208 award to pay for future schooling or to pay off student loans.

Energy Service Corps  members take on lead roles to teach local school children fun, interactive lessons about energy and the environment, lead energy surveys of local buildings and coordinate service projects that bring together local community groups.  Members forge partnerships with community and faith-based groups, meet with local and state officials to encourage their participation in community projects, contact the media to write about energy efficiency and adapt educational activities to fit the needs of local communities and to appeal to a wide range of age groups – all in an effort to foster long-term community stewardship and increase energy efficiency across California!

There are lots of other ways you can get involved if you want to help out, like:
-Speaking at one of our on-campus events or guest lecturing during our Intern Class
-Volunteer to work on one of our great projects teaching local school children about energy, conducting energy surveys of local homes and buildings, or weatherizing buildings
-Donate to sponsor a weatherization or K-12 lesson
 

Blue Engine Teaching Assistants

http://admissions@blueengine.org

Blue Engine is a New York-based nonprofit that harnesses the power of national service to combat a cycle of college under-preparedness by recruiting, training, and supporting a professional corps of Blue Engine Teaching Assistants (BETAs) dedicated to academic acceleration in high-need public high schools. Our BETAs are placed in school-based teams that work with every student in the grade level – not just high achievers and not just students who need more attention – a feature of Blue Engine designed to minimize the number of students who feel stigmatized by “high dose tutoring” and provide a way for students of all ability levels to have safe, individualized spaces to learn.

Blue Engine helps its students master the academic skills required for high school, college and work success. By accelerating achievement in core academic courses, Blue Engine prepares students in our target schools for the higher-level courses necessary to succeed in college and work. Blue Engine seeks individuals whose past experiences have prepared them both to excel under challenging circumstances and to affect measurable change in the lives of young people. After a highly competitive selection process, our 2012-2013 BETAs will begin their year of service in August 2012 in New York City.

“Open Letter to BETA Applicants”

Let’s face it.

Next year looms large. There are opportunities out there, but you’re not 100% sure about your next step. You know you want to work hard. You want to be challenged. You want to work directly with high schoolers. You want to work with a talented team of peers towards a common goal while gaining ground-level experience in the education field. Most of all, you want to make a difference.

So what’s the problem?

In schools and communities across the nation, we do an excellent job of selling students on the dream of college without adequately preparing them to succeed once they get there. This problem is compounded in low-income communities, where only 15 of every 100 students entering college each year complete bachelor’s degrees. 

How do we solve it?

Success in college is shaped by many factors, but research has consistently shown that academic rigor during high school is the strongest predictor of whether students sink or swim during that first year of college. The challenge, then, must be finding ways to help students master more advanced academic skills before arriving on campus in the first place.

That’s where you come in.

Introducing Blue Engine, an urban education fellowship year in New York City designed for talented recent college graduates to connect with small numbers of students in a different way—not as teachers, but as full-time teaching assistants. During one year terms of service, Blue Engine Teaching Assistants (BETAs) lead small group instruction (4-5 students per period) alongside experienced classroom teachers, working in teams from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. to help entire grade levels make dramatic, measurable gains in Math and English / Language Arts. 

Want to learn more?

• Sign up here to receive twice-monthly emails about Blue Engine, including notification as soon as the 2012-2013 BETA application goes live on Tuesday, November 1, 2012.
• Follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@theBlueEngine)
• Take a look at “BETA Unplugged” – Frequently Asked Questions about Blue Engine, as answered, unedited, by last year’s BETAs
• Watch a short video about Blue Engine and our first year results at here
• Read a letter from Alison, one of our inaugural BETAs
• Read a copy of the BETA job description, including stipend and benefits, here
• Contact us with questions at admissions@blueengine.org

Right now, throughout the country, we are looking for a small number of top-notch candidates to help build Blue Engine from the ground up. The admissions process will be competitive, with our next class of approximately 50 BETAs set to begin service in New York City in August of 2012.

We hope one of those BETAs will be you.

Breakthrough Collaborative

www.breakthroughcollaborative.org

A rigorous, two-month program allows undergraduates to teach high-achieving middle school students in small classroom settings. Each teacher has a lot of support from professional experienced teachers and from other college students who have taught at Breakthrough before. Since Breakthrough is an official partner of Teach for America, it is something to consider for anyone who is planning on applying. "At 33 locations across the nation and abroad, Breakthrough Collaborative launches motivated middle-school students on the path to college and prepares older students for careers in education. A national nonprofit, Breakthrough Collaborative is devoted to preparing high-achieving middle-school students, most of whom are of color and from low-income families, to enter and succeed in college-preparatory high school programs. Breakthrough also recruits and trains outstanding high school and college students to become Breakthrough teachers and build an interest in careers as educators."

Comcast SportsNet Bay Area

http://www.csnbayarea.com/pages/employment

Comcast SportsNet offers four multi-week internship programs for students preparing for a career in sports television. The four internships are within the 1) News Department, 2) Live Events Department 3) Marketing/PR Department and 4) Digital media. All of these are unpaid internships, and applicants must receive college credit for their work. The internships are located in our San Francisco, CA office.

Internship with David Chiu for Mayor Campaign

We are looking to reach out to students in the area who may be interested in learning more about the political landscape of San Francisco.  Our Fall Fellows program will provide students with great hands-on political experience in a fast-paced political race.  Fellows will receive a letter of recommendation upon successful completion of work and may receive academic credit, if applicable.

Each fellow is part of a 10 hour/week training program that is carefully designed to teach students the variety of skills needed to be successful in campaign organizing. Our program is well rounded and includes weekly training seminars on field organizing, finance, policy, political messaging, and of course new media and communications.

Fellowship applications can be found at http://www.davidchiuformayor.com/fellowship.

For more information, contact:
Jen Kwart
Regional Field Organizer
David Chiu for Mayor 2011
jennifer@davidchiuformayor.com
C: (714) 749-2001

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth

http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment

The Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University focuses on the needs of students with exceptionally high academic abilities. The CTY community includes very bright students from all over the world whose talents place them well ahead of their age-mates. These students need special attention: greater academic challenges, interaction with intellectual peers, and teaching strategies designed especially for the gifted. CTY offers gifted students, and their families and schools as well, a wide range of programs and services to nurture their intellectual abilities, enhance personal development, and foster better understanding of the needs of talented youth. CYT hires instructors for its day and residential summer programs. At CTY you will work with an exceptional group of students, make contacts and friendships with dynamic colleagues, and gain valuable experience in a rigorous academic community. CTY has consistently been named as one of the top internships in leading publications. We have a network of past employees now working in positions ranging from heads of school to deans of students to university professors. Program sites located in several states, including California.

 

Kimberley Cameron and Associates Literary Agency, Reader Internship

Kimberley Cameron & Associates Literary Agency (www.kimberleycameron.com) seeks to fill several unpaid internship positions. Located in Tiburon, CA (fifteen minutes north of San Francisco), the agency is looking for passionate, dependable readers to be our first eyes on incoming submissions. We offer an intimate office environment in which readers have the opportunity to observe and work closely with agents.

Interns must do their work in our office during regular business hours one or two days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday or some combination of these). This is great resume material for students or professionals looking for an introduction to the publishing industry or for aspiring writers interested in seeing the other side of the submissions process.

Kimberley Cameron & Associates represents fiction and nonfiction for the adult market as well as select YA fiction. For more information on the agency, its agents, and its clients, please look to our website. Send resume and cover letter to Elizabeth Kracht at liz@kimberleycameron.com.

A car is required for this internship as there is no public transportation serving our office location. 

 

Little Passports: Online Marketing Internship

Little Passports (www.littlepassports.com) is a young, fast-growing start-up located in downtown San Francisco and backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors. Our first product is award-winning and has appeared in magazines including Real Simple and Parents. We have a world-class team drawn from eBay, McKinsey and other best-in-class companies.  Our founders are Harvard and Wharton graduates. 

We are looking for an aspiring online marketer to help with all marketing efforts.  This is a paid internship. We are looking for someone who is available 16+ hours per week M-F during normal working hours.  This opportunity is perfect for someone who is close to graduation or who has recently graduated and is looking to get into Online Marketing. Perfect for English and business majors.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with all aspects of email campaigns and Affiliate Program
• Research SEO, make recommendations and execute on SEO plan
• Research and contact national PR placement including mom’s blogs, magazines and TV shows.
• Research new business opportunities
• Some general administrative functions such as faxing and copying

Requirements:

• Interest in building a career in Marketing
• Belief that the world would be a better place if we all had thicker passports
• “Can do attitude” including strong work ethic and positive attitude
• Passion for online marketing, children’s products and international issues
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently or in a team setting
• Familiarity with social media, SEO and affiliate programs a plus but not required

Additional Information

• Compensation: $10/hour
• Local candidates only (San Francisco Bay Area)
• This is an internship with approximately 16 hours/week
• Little Passports, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer
• Principals only, recruiters please do not contact

Contact

• Email amy@littlepassports.com to apply

 

 

London City Internships: 2012 Summer Internship Program - Now launching:

http://www.city-internships.com

Lewis Talbot, Program Director
City Internships

City Internships provides all-inclusive Summer Internship Programs for undergraduates and recent graduates seeking to experience and gain access to the Banking & Finance, Legal & Professional and Creative & Media industries in London.

Internship
Career Seminars
Accommodation*
Events & Excursions
Networking

* Accommodation is optional.

The Summer Internship Program is a launch pad into the most prestigious, rewarding and intellectually stimulating careers.

The program is open to undergraduates and recent graduates from across the globe and is designed to equip participants with the necessary attributes to launch thriving careers in today's ultra competitive graduate market.

The program is fully inclusive and - in addition to your internship placement - features accommodation, along with a comprehensive series of career seminars and planned events and excursions, to ensure that your summer is as enjoyable as it is productive.

Your internship placement will enable you to explore your chosen career path, develop industry specific skills and knowledge and increase your professional network - simultaneously helping you to focus the direction of your career and increase your appeal to future employers.

If you are keen to convert your skills, ambition and academic accomplishment to real-world success, we would like to invite you to participate in our Summer Internship Program.
 

To learn more about the 2012 Summer Internship Program please review the program prospectus (pdf) at www.city-internships.com .

Please note that applications must be submitted online via www.city-internships.com/apply .
 

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San Francisco District Attorney

http://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/page.asp?id=33

Undergraduate and High School Interns: The SFDA offers internship positions for undergraduate and high school students with an interest in criminal justice who seek exposure to the unique and diverse opportunities the SFDA offers. Undergraduate and high school students assist prosecutors in a variety of clerical tasks, such as organizing and preparing case files for trial, contacting witnesses, and managing subpoenas and records surrounding both pre-trial hearings and jury trials. Applicants should be reliable and well-organized students who can successfully balance their studies with their work at the office.

Santa Clara County Public Schools: paid summer internship through ALearn:

ALearn.org/SummerJobs

Wanted: Energetic college students who aspire to be future teachers.

What: Teaching Assistants for middle school summer math programs in Santa ClaraCounty public schools.

When: Mid June-End of July, 2011.

Where: School Sites located in Santa Clara County.

How to Apply: Visit ALearn.org/SummerJobs.

Make a positive impact on a young person's life!

For more details, click: here

Internship with SumoSkinny, a magazine for college students:

When:                         2012 (Jan-Apr, May-Aug, Sept-Dec)

Location:                    369 Congress St. 6th Floor Back

                                    Boston, MA 02210

Contact:                     Silas Dunham, COO

                                    sd@sumoskinny.com

 

DESCRIPTION

SumoSkinny Magazine is the ultimate guide to college life. Part local, part

national, and all college. We deploy the best of the best to keep you in the know

on all things happening on your campus, in your community, nationally and

around the world.

 

We can’t keep our readers up to date on what’s trending in college without our

amazing writing correspondents. Our campus correspondents are 100% college

students because they are the ones that know what their peers like best.

 

The SumoSkinny Writing Internship is a 10-12 week program that will enable

college students to showcase their work through SumoSkinny Magazine. Writers

will work with S/S’s professional editorial staff and online media experts to

execute assignments in both a newsroom and assigned/freelance atmosphere.

 

Writers will also be required to research local “hot spots” and gain knowledge

on trending topics on campus and nationally. Their work will be reviewed and

constant feedback will be given as they progress through the program.

 

The S/S Writing Internship offers students the opportunity to gain first-hand

experience in one of the most rapidly growing online college magazine

organizations.

 

PROGRAM FEATURES

● Students will undergo training aimed at teaching them the most crucial

elements of online publishing. The topics of the training will consist of:

a) multimedia publishing, b) writing engaging content, c) optimizing text

and headlines for search engine optimization, and d) mastering the art of

timely publishing on the Internet.

 

● Interns will immediately begin publishing their works on SUMOskinny and

will work with our editorial team to ensure they stay in the SUMO voice

and tone. Students will develop columns on the site to grow their personal readerships.

 

 

 

 Unigo.com

Unigo.com, a multimedia college platform, is looking for exceptional college students to join our network. College students will be paid $16/hour to chat online with prospective students interested in their university. What’s great about this program is you can work around your unique schedule and commit to as many or few sessions as you wish. Your involvement can change higher education by making the college application process easier and more informative

FAQs: http://www.unigo.com/faq.aspx

Requirements:

-Must be a college student or recent graduate

-Must have access to a computer and webcam

-Must have excellent writing and communications skills

Application Process:

1.       Register on Unigo here: http://www.unigo.com/customregister.aspx?type=insider

2.       Create your profile: upload a profile and fill out the fields in ‘my profile’ section

3.       To qualify for this paid service, you must create a review about your college

4.       Our editorial staff read through all posted reviews and select qualified individuals

Unigo is an online community led by college students and counselors to help families find, get in and pay for college. Founded in 2008, Unigo is based in New York and funded by McGraw-Hill Education and a group of angel investors. Unigo works with media companies such as USA Today, The Huffington Post, US News & World Report and others. For more information visit: http://www.unigo.com/fast-facts.aspx

 

 ZYZZYVA--Literary Journal

ZYZZYVA, the literary journal of West Coast writers and artists, is looking for editorial interns for its San Francisco office. The internships will focus on editorial assistance, online feature writing, social media management, and general office support.

The part-time internships begin the week of January 10^thand will last 8 to 10 weeks. Applicants should be available to work from our San Francisco office 2-3 days every week for the duration.

All applicants should possess excellent writing and research skills, have a sharp eye toward detail, and should be pursuing a career in professional writing or publishing. The ideal candidate is highly organized, deadline oriented, and passionate about the world of letters and its presence on the West Coast. Interns are expected to contribute regular fine arts (book, theater, art) reviews and other features to the ZYZZYVA blog.

To apply, please submit a brief cover letter (including availability), resume, and 3 samples of non-fiction writing with the subject line “ZYZZYVA Intern” to internships@zyzzyva.org.

The deadline for applications is December 19.

About Us:

Established in 1985, ZYZZYVA is the leading print journal dedicated to publishing new works by contemporary artists and authors living and working on the West Coast. Produced and published in San Francisco, ZYZZYVA is available in bookstores across the country and brings national attention to the work of West Coast authors and artists. ZYZZYVA has established a strong tradition of finding talent, and has offered many contemporary luminaries their first time in print, including Po Bronson, Chitra Divakaruni, Haruki Murakami (translated by J. Philip Gabriel), and F.X. Toole.

 

 

 

 



English Department Alumni: Where Are They Now?

Confused about what to do with your English major? Not sure what you are qualified for? Need inspiration as you plan your future? We have compiled a list of jobs held by Berkeley English Department alumni to give you an idea of just how flexible the English major can be as a steppingstone to many different careers. It is remarkable to see the variety of jobs filled by English majors. When you get asked "but what can you do with an English major?", this list will provide a plethora of answers. We found it truly exciting to read about English majors in the film industry, banking, publishing, acting, social work, politics, software companies and hardware companies, the federal government, libraries, advertising, the tourist industry, magazine publishing, the healthcare industry and many more.

• Chairman, Chernin Entertainment / The Chernin Group
• Vice President, Advertising, Outdoor Channel
• Executive Director, Coalition of Asian American Children & Families
• Editor, Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Legal Counsel, Fox Television Studios
• Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
• Superior Court Judge, City & County of San Francisco
• Sports Writer, SF Chronicle
• Judge, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
• Manager, Online Sales, Google
• Editor, The World (NPR)
• Freelance Writer, Editor
• Director, Sun Microsystems
• Writer, Editor, US Government Accountability Office
• Library Supervisor, University of the Pacific
• Movie / TV Actor
• Communications Director, US House of Representatives
• Information Architect, Berkeley Electronic Press
• Vice President, Barclays Capital
• Web Strategy & Production, California Travel & Tourism Commission
• Assistant Editor, Pearson Education Publishing
• Program Coordinator, World Resources Institute
• Story Editor, Jersey Films
• Creative Director, Cambridge Biomarketing Group
• President, Lin Oliver Productions
• Senior Event Coordinator, King's College London
• Associate Producer, 60 Minutes
• Operations Manager, Ciber Inc.
• Executive Director, Hillel Foundation
• Staff Writer, Honolulu Advertiser Inc.
• Senior VP, Campbell-Ewald Advertising
• Associate Director, Wharton School
• Event Coordinator & Etiquette Advisor, Sarah Kidder Designs
• Editor, Business Wire
• Writer, Media Access Group
• Assistant Editor, Asian Journal
• General Counsel, California Earthquake Authority
• Development Assistant, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
• Attorney, Office of Clients' Rights Advocacy
• Assistant Marketing Director, University of California Press
• Technical Writer, Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Staff Writer, Metro Section, Los Angeles Times
• Editor, Lexis-Nexis
• Project Manager, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Project Manager, Kaiser Foundation
• Farmhand, Cleverly Farms
• Associate Editor, Ziff-Davis Media
• Teen Center Director, Caruso Library
• Knowledge Manager, Siemens Enterprise Networks
• Copy Editor, Westways Magazine
• Systems Administrator, Pixar Animation Studios
• Director, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLC
• Writer, Kodak Imaging Network
• Account Executive, Infinity Broadcasting
• Staff Writer, Hartford Advocate
• Membership Manager, Autry Museum of Western Heritage
• Foreign Service Officer, US Embassy
• Marketing Writer, Exact Software
• Principal, Boston Consulting Group
• President, Music Teachers' Association of California
• Television Director, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
• Agent, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
• Director, Alameda County Public Health Department
• Director of Marketing, Rad-Icon Imaging Corp.
• Systems Analyst, The Walt Disney Company
• Advertising Manager, Black Rock Development
• Development, Cal Performances
• Feature Writer, Honolulu Star Bulletin
• Vice President, Board of Recreation and Park Commission, City of Los Angeles
• Assistant Director of Admissions, Art Institute of Las Vegas
• Editor, Dharma Publishing
• Editor, Cambridge University Press
• Chief Operating Officer, Oregon Coast Aquarium
• Digital Publications Manager, Bancroft Library
• Editorial Assistant, Oxford University Press
• Director, Manuscript Editing, Houghton Mifflin
• Director of Development, Contra Costa Humane Society
• Anchor / Reporter, Fox Sports Net, Chicago
• Transitional House Supervisor, Berkeley Food and Housing Project
• Associate Executive Director, Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles
• Assistant Director for Alumni Relations, Columbia University
• Senior Writer, Editor, Storia Inc.
• Vice President, NBC News
• Writer, Editor, US Forest Service
• Artist Manager, Soho Artists
• Assistant Librarian, National Portrait Gallery, London
• Senior Manager, Amazon.com
• Producer/Assignment Editor, CBS Television
• Associate Director, Jazz Foundation of America
• Sales Engineer, Yahoo!
• News Editor, Singapore Press Holdings, Ltd.
• Assistant Marketing Manager, E-Commerce, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
• VP, International Sales, Champion Nutrition
• Senior Director, Series Development, VH1
• Development Coordinator, United States Handball Association
• Associate Producer, CNN
• GIS Branch Chief, US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Executive Director, Center for Asian American Media
• Marketing & Communications Specialist, Trust for Public Land
• Executive Director, Tides Center
• Product Manager, Yahoo!
• Director of Marketing, Mammoth Records
• Information Risk Management, KPMG
• Director of Gift Planning, Marin Community Foundation
• Executive Producer, Microsoft
• Bookstore Owner, Flying Pig Bookstore
• Assistant Merchandiser, Gap Inc.
• Group Vice President & Director, Time-Life Books
• Biological Lab Tecnician, US Department of Agriculture
• Assistant Manager / Communications, California Farm Bureau Federation
• Director of Major Gifts, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
• Conservator, Euryale Conservation, LLC
• Residential Counselor, Seneca Center
• Communications Officer, Frick Collection, NYC
• Division of Merchandise Manager & VP, Macy's West
• Director of Volunteer Services, East End Cooperative Ministry
• Project Editor, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
• Program Officer, James Irvine Foundation
• Counselor, Women's Daytime Drop-In Center
• Attorney, AT&T Mobility
• President & Editorial Director, Shoreline Publishing Group
• Development Coordinator, Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra
• Brand Manager, The Clorox Company
• Senior Technology Counsel, Wells Fargo
• Designer, Osborn Architects
• International Product Manager, Paramount Pictures
• Senior Writer, Time Inc.
• Managing Editor, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Motion Picture Sound Editor, Lucas Digital Ltd.
• Literary Agent, Paradigm Talent & Literary Agency
• Senior Brand Strategy Manager, Cisco Systems
• Assistant Attorney General, State of Arkansas
• Project Manager, The Walt Disney Company
• President, Lark Productions
• Assistant, Media Relations, Intercollegiate Athletics Association
• Program Director, Catholic Charities
• Director, Princeton Review
• News Correspondent, Wall Street Journal
• Producer / Development, Front Row Films
• Reporter, Washington Post Company
• Vice President, Creative Affairs, HBO
• Senior Sales Development, HBO
• President, Cognito Design
• General Editor, Bancroft Library
• Research Assistant, FDIC
• Manager of Publications, Frick Collection, NYC
• Trial Attorney, Parker & Hafner PA
• Sunday Editor, New York Newsday
• Producer/Reporter, Latin Eyes Media, Inc.
• Senior News Writer, Science Magazine
• Reporter, The Washington Post
• Vice President, Credit Suisse
• Web Designer, Telepictures Productions
• Operations Analyst, Metropolitan Transportation Commission
• Deputy Travel Editor, SFGate.com
• Executive Editor, WebMD.com
• Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Last Planet Theatre
• Subcontract Administrator, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.
• Editor, Apple Inc.
• Residential Counselor, Edgewood Children's Center
• Yoga Instructor
• Poet / Press Co-Founder
• Program Director, YMCA
• Internal Communications Manager, Google
• Owner, Navarro Vineyards
• Senior Technical Writer, Starbucks Coffee Co.
• Artistic Director, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
• Assistant VP, Bank of America Corporation
• Coordinating News Producer, CBS News
• Education Coordinator, San Francisco Symphony
• Playwright
• Marketing Services Manager, Avalon Travel Publishing
• Restaurateur (Pizzaiolo; Boot and Shoe Service)



Chernin Book Recommendations

Need a new book to read?  Looking for bedtime reading or summer reading?  The Chernin Program has put together a list of recommendations from faculty, grad students, and undergrads.  The list is an ongoing project, so we will be adding to it as more recommendations arrive. Check back from time to time to see the new additions!

Please feel free to add your own recommendations, too—just email cherninmentoring@berkeley.edu. 

 

Marcos Alvarez’s list:

We Fed Them Cactus, Fabiola Cabeza de Vaca.  It’s a beautifully written elegy-style autobiography about the loss of Spanish colonial culture in the era of the first great migration.  It’s haunting in its imagery and insightful in that women at that time didn’t get a chance to speak out and make their voices heard.  Raza, Latinos, Hispanos, and all peoples interested in colonialism or Native American culture will find this book a gem.

 

Martha Avtandilian’s list:

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov - fiction- A Soviet satire exploring the boundaries of love, society, and magic through the veils of government and religion.

Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan - fiction-  Set against the back-drop of the demimonde of the Riviera, Bonjour Tristesse is a classic French bildungsroman following 17-year-old Cecile and her favored pastime of wicked scheming.

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov - fiction- The lyrical tale of Humbert Humbert, a crazed pedophile engaged in a cross-country run with stepdaughter and "girl-child" Dolores "Lolita" Haze, written in the most beautiful of ways.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery - fiction- The Elegance of the Hedgehog follows precocious Paloma and concierge Renee as they attempt to find beauty in the world through language, philosophy, and friendship in order to justify human existence.

Perfume, Patrick Suskind - fiction- Perfume is the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an orphan born with a supernatural sense of smell (but with no scent of his own), which leads him to try his hand at creating the perfect perfume at the expense of the lives of the local female youth.

Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol - fiction- Dead Souls follows Chichikov and his quest to acquire the "dead souls" of local serfs in an attempt to climb the social ladder.

Zadig, Voltaire - fiction- A philosophical work illustrating the concept of fate by exploring life's highs and lows and the rhythmic balance that keeps it together.

 

Nora Grant’s list:

Just Kids,Patti Smith – autobiography –Just Kids tells the story of Rock Star and poet Patti Smith's romantic and artistic relationship with famous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The prose is elegantly written and the stories are a fascinating trip into the bohemian world of 1970's New York. I mostly loved it because I got to see how important collaboration and partnership are to the creative mind.

Tomcat in Love, Tim O'Brien – fiction – Hilarious. Unreliable narrator.

And I've been reading short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, because I think she is a master of character.

 

Rebecca Everson's list

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. by Stephen Mitchell) – fiction –I tell everyone about this book because I can't believe more people haven't read it. It's Rilke's only novel, and it brings all the incredible beauty and intensity of his poetry into the story of Malte, a young man in Paris. Malte spends much of the novel reflecting on Rilke's favorite

topics: love, death, relationships, and solitude. What I love most about this book is Rilke's astounding ability to capture the rapidly changing undercurrents of living and express them in such a way that never fails to make me sit up and take notice of the world around me.

On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea, Pablo Neruda – poetry –This compilation was my first exposure to Neruda's poetry. I can't read Spanish, so I don't know how good the translation is, but the words are incredibly beautiful. I can't believe I didn't discover him sooner. Neruda just amazes me with his ability to describe solitude, loneliness, longing, heartbreak, and profound love. His poetry is so elegant, and yet so approachable. It's gorgeous and sweepingly romantic.

No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July – fiction –This is a collection of short stories by Miranda July. I first saw her in "Me and You and Everyone We Know." July is adorable, quirky, extremely awkward, and just strange. I love her. These stories are all delightful. She creates interesting, dynamic characters who have these fantastically messy and intensely realistic relationships with each other. Her work is wonderful and eccentric, all about the trials and tribulations of love and finding acceptance.

My Antonia, Willa Cather – fiction –This book is gorgeous. Cather's descriptive language invites you into the landscape of her story. It's like you can see the breeze blowing across the fields and feel the warm sun on your face when you read this book. I often feel that this novel is a love letter to the land she writes about. It's very captivating.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke – non-fiction –This collection of letters from Rilke to a young soldier seeking advice on how to become a poet is full of wisdom and guidance. It was recommended to me at the perfect time in my life, but I find that his advice continues to grow with me because I find something new to think about every time I pick it up. His thoughts on the human condition are profound and often heartbreakingly bittersweet. I truly believe this book has something for everyone.

 

Amanda Roff's list:

Monkey Grip by Helen Garner.
Gritty, colloquial, honest. Life and love in the bohemia of Melbourne in the 1970's.

Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
Describing the story as "an old women looks back on her life" makes this book sound lame which it isn't at all. Short but so strong and consistent yet light in tone. Read it in one night.

Really The Blues by Mezz Mezzrow.
 One of the best music books I have ever read, this dense and passionate autobiography is also a history of Jazz and includes an entire chapter in Jive (with translation in the appendix).

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles.
Funny, honest, delightful, unpredictable, original adventures of remarkable ladies by a remarkable lady.

Lettie Fox, Her Luck by Christina Stead
Funny, smart, gossipy, entertaining novel by an author normally known for brutal emotional intensity. Witty social commentary about the emerging pyschological type: " The American Girl."

 

Kasturi Sengupta’s list:

Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow, Orson Scott Card, Science Fiction. Both books have their own series; the Shadow series is a spin-off. They are about child genii trying to save Earth from being obliterated by aliens in a military school in space. There are philosophical, political and religious themes galore. These books changed my life when I read them as a young adult, and though they might not have such a drastic effect on you in this stage of life, they'll definitely be a really fun, easy read and provide a thought-provoking ride. 

La Bete Humaine, Emile Zola,  Fiction. I read it for the first time in English 125D, The 20th Century Novel, with Professor Jones. So much fun. A focus on trains frames a narrative of dysfunctional people, violence and lots of dead people/murder/intrigue/sex. The translation itself is provides a beautiful, rich interpretation of a work that must be breathtaking in its original French. It makes you excited about reading its contemporaries and the rest of the (rather long) series about even more dysfunctional people of the same family.

 



Creative Writing Prizes

http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/undergraduates/types_prizes.htm

The Prizes program at UC Berkeley is a primary forum for rewarding creative expression and scholarly achievement by Cal's finest students. Winners receive both distinction and a cash prize, which is coordinated with the winner's financial aid package, if any. Prize competitions are open to students of any major. Successful, even prominent, artists and poets in our society found that winning an award at Berkeley was a pivotal experience in their artistic careers. Prizes are administered under the direction of the Academic Senate Committee on Prizes. Copies of the essays and poetry submissions chosen to receive prizes are archived at the Bancroft Library at the end of each year.

The general deadline for all contests (except the Greek/Latin Translation contests, Eisner Film/Video, Eisner Photo-Imaging, and Lipson Essay Prize) is 4 p.m., December 1.

Category	Estimated Amount	Application Process
Poetry
Academy of American Poets Prize	$100	Write a poem
Cook Prize in Poetry	$500 - $300	Write a poem
Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize	$250- $100	Write a poem
Crothers Prize in Literary Composition	$600 - $250	Write a story or play
Eisner Poetry	$2.000	Create a collection of poetry
Irving Prize for American Wit and Humor	$750	Write an anecdote, story, poem, drawing, or play illustrative of American wit and humor
Rosenberg Lyric Poetry	$2,000 - $1,000	Create a lyric poem
Yang Memorial Poetry Prize	$500 - $250	Write a poem
Prose
Crothers Prize in Literary Composition	$600 - $250	Write a story or play
Eisner Prose	$2,000	Create a prose submission consisting of a substantial volume of work
Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay Prize	$1,000 - $750	Write an essay
Irving Prize for American Wit and Humor	$750	Write an anecdote, story, poem, drawing, or play illustrative of American wit and humor
Shrout Short Story Prize	$400 in prizes	Write a short story

BAY AREA POETRY/FICTION/DRAMA READING SERIES

* This blog collects all of the bay area poetry events and is updated almost every day:

http://shampoopoetry.blogspot.com/

*Condensery Reading Series

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Condensery-Reading-Series/165562593460793

This is a really fun reading series. Join the facebook group and you will get updates. It is usually a younger crowd of student-poets. The readings always take place at 604 56^th street, one of those Oakland houses with a couch on the porch. It often turns into a party afterwards.

*Small Press Traffic   

http://smallpresstraffic.org/

Hosts fancier readings series, most often with older, more well-established poets. Events are most often in San Francisco. Take especial notice of the reading planned for November 20^th—UC Berkeley professor Lyn Hejinian will be presenting!

*Pegasus Books First Person Singular 

http://www.1stpersonsingular.com/

Dramatic readings of plays and other performance/literary events. For example, on Sept. 21 at 7:30 is “Stealing the Leads: Women Read Glengarrygloss Glen Ross, a Play by David Mamet.”

*Holloway Poetry Reading Series

http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/

Takes place in the Maude Fife Room in Wheeler! This reading series pairs an established visiting poet with a graduate student poet.

*Lunch Poems

http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/

A noontime poetry reading series that takes place in the Morrison Library in Doe on the first Thursday of the month.

*UC Berkeley Story Hour

http://storyhour.berkeley.edu/

A monthly prose reading series at UC Berkeley. The “Bay Area Mystery Writers Panel” on Oct. 14^th looks interesting.

*Litquake

http://www.litquake.org/

San Francisco’s literary festival. Most events happen in bars.  Titles include, “Is Self Publishing the New Black?”

Campus Publications

Berkeley Fiction Review

www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bfr/

BFR is an entirely undergraduate student-run publication. We seek out innovative fiction that plays with form and content as well as traditionally constructed stories with fresh voice and original ideas. We run a yearly Sudden Fiction contest for stories under 1,000 words.

Berkeley Poetry Review

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/

BPR is the University of California, Berkeley's longest running poetry journal, having been published annually since 1974. It has earned the distinction of being one of the premier student-managed journals in the country. Throughout the academic year, our staff works to produce a volume of poetry, with submissions coming from all across the nation, as well as from students, faculty, and friends of the University. In addition, we wish to promote serious consideration of student creative writing and to foster a welcoming community where poets can hone their craft and receive helpful feedback about their work.

CLAM- Cal Literature and Arts Magazine

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~clam/

CLAM is a bi-annual publication run by members of the UC Berkeley student body. We publish literature and visual art by the Berkeley student community and report on recent artistic events and accomplishments at UC Berkeley. Our mission is to provide space for new writers and artists to have their work published. We want to form a community of creative people to share their ideas and gain exposure.

Cal Slam

http://callink.berkeley.edu/organization/calslam

Cal Slam is one of the last bastions of creative expression on the UC Berkeley campus. We host Monday Writing Workshops, General Meetings every Saturday, and an Open Mic and Poetry Slam on every third Thursday of the month. Our poets learn to use their poetry to better explore and share themselves, their experiences and the world around them through words.

Human Journal

http://callink.berkeley.edu/organization/humanjournal

The Human Journal builds communities on the Cal campus in two ways. The first, more obvious, way is through the publication. The publication is a collection of true, personal, and specific stories written by Berkeley affiliates (students, faculty, staff. . .) with the intention of letting us know each other a little better. The second way that HJB builds community is through the staff. The staff of the Human Journal are a close knit group of individuals dedicated to making Cal a little bite friendlier and a little bit more welcoming. They know each other well, and support each other not just in journal related issues, but in life.

Oatmeal Magazine

http://oatmealmagazine.com/about/

Oatmeal Magazine is run by two Berkeley kids who live nearish each other in said city. Disillusioned by scary literary mags but inspired by a certain creative writing class, they now happily found an outlet for writing weird things, and having people like them for it. Do you want to be us? Or, better question, would you like to join us in our celebration of this literary breakfast? If you’re interested, please state your interest in this particular feast by emailing oatmeal.magazine@gmail.com.