Creative Writing and English Internships and Publication Opportunities
Internships
The Department of English has a strong record of placing writing and literature students in exciting internships. Students have worked with the following organizations:
- Archaeology magazine (in Washington, D.C.)
- Arts Indiana magazine (in Indianapolis)
- Billboard magazine (in Nashville)
- Disney Corporation (in Los Angeles)
- Elle magazine (in New York)
- Evansville Business magazine
- Evansville City View magazine
- Evansville Courier & Press
- Evansville Living magazine
- Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science
- Hoosier Parent magazine
- Indiana Business magazine
- Indianapolis Children's Museum
- Marvel Comics Publications (in New York)
- News4U
- Patchwork Central
- Performing Songwriter magazine (in Nashville)
- Senior Literary Journal
- Story Press (in Ohio)
- The Evansville Review
- UE Writing Center
- Various advertising agencies
- Various law offices
- WCPO/Channel 9 (in Ohio)
- Writer's Digest magazine (in Ohio)
- Writers in the Schools (WITS)
Publications
The Evansville Review is an award-winning literary journal produced and published by our students. It includes poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews by a wide range of authors, from students to Nobel Prize recipients. Past issues have included work by Arthur Miller, John Updike, Joseph Brodsky, Elia Kazan, Edward Albee, Willis Barnstone, Shirley Ann Grau, and X. J. Kennedy. Poems which first appeared in The Evansville Review were selected to be included in The Best American Poetry 2001 and in The Pushcart Prize XXVI, 2002. For more information, visit evansvillereview.evansville.edu.
Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry is a journal dedicated to publishing the best metrical, English-language verse from both the United States and abroad. Students have opportunities to serve as editorial interns for Measure under the guidance of English faculty members. For more information, visit measure.evansville.edu.
The Richard Wilbur Poetry Award is a prestigious national competition for book-length poetry collections. The author of the winning manuscript receives $1,000, and the manuscript is published by the University of Evansville Press. In recent years, such distinguished American poets as Dana Goia, Rachel Hadas, and Wyatt Prunty have served as the competition's final judge.
The Willis Barnstone Prize in Translation is a department-sponsored, international competition of unpublished poetry translations from any language and time period. The contest is named in honor of the renowned poet and translator Willis Barnstone, who has served as the final judge for our first two competitions. The award-winning poems are published in The Evansville Review.
The Ohio River Review draws on the all-University writing contest for its content. Student editors pick what they deem the best of the contest entries for inclusion. The journal is published each spring in time for distribution at the final English Coffee Hour, at which time contest entries are read.
