Career Development
The Los Angeles Review of Books is now accepting applications for the 2019 LARB/USC Publishing Workshop. The Publishing Workshop is an intensive, three-week summer course on book, magazine, and online publishing held on the USC campus from July 7-July 26, 2019. Scholarships are available. Read on for more info and apply today!
The Los Angeles Review of Books is now accepting applications for the 2019 LARB/USC Publishing Workshop.
The Publishing Workshop is an intensive, three-week summer course on book, magazine, and online publishing held on the USC campus from July 7-July 26, 2019. Through lectures, seminars, and practical instruction, participants learn the foundations of print and online editing and production, gain insight into the financial and business side of publishing, and connect with over 60 industry leaders from across the country working in all areas of traditional and new media publishing.
For Workshop Fellows seeking to develop their own publishing ventures, an optional eight-week version of the Workshop includes a five-week non-residential incubator from July 29-August 30. These Fellows will receive individual faculty mentors, targeted seminars, and online interaction with other entrepreneurs and experts as they work to launch their projects.
For too long, publishing has been inaccessible to all but a small segment of the population-moneyed, connected, New York-centric-and the result has been a lack of diversity at every level of the profession. The LARB/USC Publishing Workshop aims to transform the industry from the ground up through its commitments to recruiting students underrepresented in the publishing industry, to prioritizing student financial aid, and to celebrating independent presses, outlets, and platforms throughout the country that are changing the face of publishing today.
Speakers for this summer include Kima Jones (Founder, Jack Jones Literary Arts), Julia Turner (Deputy Managing Editor, LA Times; EIC, Slate), Rachel Rosenfelt (Founder, The New Inquiry; Creative Director, Verso; Publisher, The New Republic), Haaris Naqvi (Editorial Director, Bloomsbury Academic), Sarita Varma (Vice President & Director of Publicity, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Jane Marie (Producer, This American Life; Founder, Little Everywhere), Lydia Kiesling (author of The Golden State; Editor, The Millions), and many more.
Applications for the 2019 Publishing Workshop are due April 1. For scholarship consideration, please apply by March 15. Find out more information or apply here.
Please direct any questions to Irene Yoon, LARB/USC Publishing Workshop Director.