In keeping with Transition’s activist, pan-Africanist, and progressive roots, we have set up the role of Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor to cultivate and empower bold leaders in the increasingly interrelated world of African and African Diasporic writing. Our aim is to send our assistant editors on to higher-profile venues like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, fully prepared to identify and develop writers and thinkers of the African Diaspora.
Ideally, the Spillers Assistant Editor will have an MFA in creative writing or an MA in literary editing. We are looking for a very well-read and well-connected individual, who will pursue and build literary relationships with tenacity and tact. The Spillers Assistant Editor will be expected to identify and solicit authors who are at the beginning of their careers, well-established, or “peaking.” As a core member of Transition’s editorial team, the Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor will help authors develop their crafts and realize their ambitions, guiding them through all stages of the editorial process.
This is a paid part-time position that requires a commitment of ten-to-fourteen hours per week.
(All members of the editorial team, including the Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor, have the choice of working either on site at the Hutchins Center in Cambridge, MA, or remotely.)
Please send cover and CV to the Managing Editor, Tanya Larkin, at tanyalarkin@fas.harvard.edu by January 31, 2024.