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OPPORTUNITIES

We consider applications on a rolling basis. Learn more and apply via our submissions manager.

Editorial Internships.  Do you love to read contemporary fiction? Essays? Are you a literary tastemaker? Cleaver needs readers whose sensibilities click with our own to help us thwack! through our growing submissions pile and proofread the pieces we accept.

Cleaver’s competitive Editorial Internship program, mentored by Senior Editor Sydney Tammarine, offers in-depth experience in curation, editing, and production of a major literary magazine. Editorial interns read and vote on submissions, help us proofread the issue before it goes live, and write a book review for publication. Time commitment: 5–10 hours/week. We accept 3-4 interns for Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Age and experience of candidates varies from talented high school students to post-MFA and early career writers. We can work with your college or university to provide academic credit for a semester-long internship at Cleaver. At this time, we are most in need of prose readers. 

Submission Editors, Proofreaders and Copyeditors.  Cleaver needs submission editors as well as proofreaders and copyeditors to help us groom each story, essay, and poem before publication. Love that Oxford comma? Apply via our submissions manager. Use the “Editorial Intern” application, but let us know in the cover letter that you’re interested in being an editor and which genres and types of editing you’d like to do. 

Please note: at this time, we are an all-volunteer organization.

Current Fall 2024 Interns

Sydney Tammarine, Internship Director
* To apply for a Cleaver editorial internship or staff position, see our Submittable page.

Maya Grunschlag is a third-year student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Huntsman Program in International Business, with a minor in English Literature. She is an arts writer for UPenn’s 34th Street Magazine. She is looking forward to joining Cleaver Magazine this fall.

LaVie Saad is a freshman at Stanford University planning to major in English on a pre-law track. She has been published over forty times on local, national, and international platforms including Exposition Review, Apprentice Writer, and The Lascaux Review. She is looking forward to joining Cleaver Magazine this fall as an editorial intern!

Rachel Shaver graduated from Eckerd College in 2024 with a BA in creative writing and a minor in literature. She lives in Tampa, Florida with her twin sister and spends her days consuming media in all forms. She has been published in Collision Literary Magazine and worked as editor-in-chief for Eckerd Review.

Adele Zhao is a high school senior from Charlotte, North Carolina. A fiction writer and poet, she attended the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio in July 2024. Her work has been recognized by a Gold Medal in Short Story by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She enjoys volunteering at the local library, advocating for environmental awareness, and watching films.

Previous Interns

Summer 2024
Alana Craib
Azumi Kuchma
Jennifer Nessel

Spring 2024
Ellie Heeren
Julia Hou
Kayla McCall

Fall 2023
Angel Benjamin
Char Dreyer
Anna Llewellyn
Coralie Loon

Summer 2023
Alex Behm
Audrey Lai
Lillian Lowenthal

Spring 2023
Paul Chuks
Ingrid Hartzell Gallegos
Michael McCarthy
Alary Schmitt

Fall 2022
Alexandra Apuzzo
Aalia Jagwani
Jae Sutton
Sabine Wilson-Patrick

Summer 2022
Annie Cao
Prisha Mehta
Eliza Sullivan
Jamie Tews

Spring 2022
Stephanie Fluckey
Michael Sasso
Vriddhi Vinay

Fall 2021
Candela Rivero
Arielle Jones
Nicole Sellew
Celine Bassman

Summer 2021
Juliana Lamy
Jeffrey Liao
Ellie Sharp
Aleksia Silverman

Spring 2021
Edythe Rodriguez
Brooke Parry

Fall 2020
Eric Buechel
Jessica Kim
Laura Smith
James Yeagley

Summer 2020
Anthony Cardellini
Ashley Hajimirsadeghi
Charlotte Hughes
Jozie Konczal
Ashira Shirali

Spring 2020
Alexandra Savage
Aja Todd
Claire Kooyman
Nikki Caffier Smith

Fall 2019
Preston Eagan

Spring 2019
Kim Livingston
Nancy Goodhue
Shalynn Pace
Vincent Barraco
Alyssa Taylor
Gregory Manley

Summer 2018
Anaya Carter-Duckett
Samantha Berit
Julia Grady
Rachel Hertzberg
Isabelle Mongeau
Sarah Starr Murphy

Spring 2018
Allegra Armstrong
Sara Graybeal
Jodi Monster
Amy Shaw
John Spurlock
Maureen Sullivan

Fall 2017
Helen Armstrong
Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Kathleen Danielson
Brendan McCourt
Evan Nicholls
Chyina Powell
Brandon Stanwyck
August Thompson

Summer 2017
Kellie Carle
Kelly Doyle
Julia Leslie Guarch
Natalie Kawam
Amanda M. Klute
 Elaina Whitesell

Spring 2017
Lena Popkin
Sarah Doran
Melanie Erspamer
Carolyn Freer
John Ryan Barwick
Christine M. Hopkins
Ryan Evans
Caitlyn Averett
Christina Tang-Bernas

Fall 2016
Sarah Doran
Melanie Erspamer
David Grandouiller
Odette Moolten
William Morris

Summer 2016
Alec Hill
Claire Oleson
David Grandouiller
Emily Brown
Shelley Senai
Remy Barnes

Spring 2016
Rosie Huf
Kylie Lee Baker
Rachael Tague
Lillian Brown
Ava Van der Meer

Fall 2015
Rachael Tague
Ariella Carmell
Carson Jarrell-Rourke

Summer 2015
Emily Brown
Catherine Mosier-Mills
Rebecca Brill

Spring 2015
Annika Neklason
Emily Horn

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