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The 8th and final article in a series on editorial internships, by Kate Icely.

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Dispatches 8: Looking Forward, Looking Back

November 13, 2013 by Kate Icely | 3 Comments on Dispatches 8: Looking Forward, Looking Back

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. I thought up this series while sitting in my cubicle at Random House of Canada just as I was starting my second internship. By this point I considered myself a pretty seasoned hand. I had seen a […]

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Dispatches 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

May 28, 2013 by Kate Icely | 2 Comments on Dispatches 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. So now that you know what editorial interns do and you have some tips to get you started, I’m sure you’re wondering how the editorial staff really feels about interns. This question was burning in my mind when […]

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Dispatches 3: An Intern’s Survival Guide

May 1, 2013 by Kate Icely | 4 Comments on Dispatches 3: An Intern’s Survival Guide

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. For all the good that comes out of an internship, sometimes being an intern can be tough. Interns are dropped into a completely new environment where everyone has more experience than they do. It’s important that they […]

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Dispatches 2: What’s in an Internship?

April 2, 2013 by Kate Icely | 5 Comments on Dispatches 2: What’s in an Internship?

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. When I enrolled at Ryerson in the fall of 2011, I took as many editing courses as I could. Copy editing, proofreading, grammar, substantive editing…. The more courses I took, the more I loved working with words. […]

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Dispatches from an Editorial Intern

March 5, 2013 by Kate Icely | 10 Comments on Dispatches from an Editorial Intern

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is the first in a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. Outside looking in I decided I wanted to go into publishing in early 2011. It was a good solution to my problems at the time. Problems like why I didn’t want to fill out […]

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