Student Worker- Staff Writer Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal

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The Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal is a student-run organization at UNR that publishes two journals per year (one per semester). All art reviewed and published by Brushfire is submitted through our website.

With every new edition of the Brushfire, we strive to represent the diversity, originality, and dedication of our artistic community. As an ASUN organization, we also strive to be the creative literary and visual work outlet for our student body at UNR. Our main priority is to connect with the various art communities at UNR and throughout Reno. However, anyone can submit to Brushfire. We receive and publish art from across the country. 

In order to achieve our goals, staff and volunteers also collaborate with other campus clubs and organizations, to promote Brushfire’s name and purpose, and to establish good relations with peer art organizations.

Collaboration is in Brushfire’s nature. Much of the work done will be with the help of co-workers and volunteers. What is most important is the drive to work in a team and work for the goals of this organization. 

The staff writer is a new position which will be concerned with chronologizing the publication, involving not limited to duties such as: maintaining the Brushfire blog, creating bi-monthly artist spotlights, and working with University archives to digitize past Brushfire editions. All staff members are required to attend weekly meetings in which progress updates, announcements and challenges will be discussed.

Responsibilities:

• Revitalizing and maintaining the Brushfire blog. This includes writing a weekly ‘newsletter’ type article which summarize the activities of the publication, art & writing related events on and off-campus, and updating contributors/interested students about any other important information
• Writing bi-monthly artist spotlights. This includes reaching out and interviewing  artists/writers about their work and then creating a short article about the artist for publication on our website. 
• Working with University Archives to have past Brushfire’s digitized. (No technical experience necessary). 

Required Qualifications: 

• Candidate must be a student of the University of Nevada, Reno.
• Maintain a 2.0 GPA and be enrolled
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Comfortable conducting interviews and meeting new people
• Experience and/or knowledge in respective field of art 
• A good understanding of the mechanics of the English language

Compensation

$12/hour

Student Employee Level 1

Schedule

Expected hours to work per week: 10-13