Are you our new Web Editor?

Transportation Press Web Editor

Transportation Press is an independent press based in Tasmania, publishing work from around the world. We endeavour to have an active online presence between publishing our books and running competitions like Smoke, an annual international microfiction competition. We are looking for a Web Editor to oversee and maintain our website and some of our social media content. Our website should be dynamic and thought provoking.

The Web Editor is responsible for maintaining fresh and relevant content on the Transportation Press website and will be focused on publishing either dedicated projects or individual pieces. This will involve commissioning writers, reading pitches and submissions and responding to them, editing, readying pieces for publication and uploading them. They will work alongside the editors, and other Transportation Press writers and crew as required.

We are interested in making the role work for you and we are seeking someone who:

• will ensure that the Transportation Press website has fresh and interesting content which works harmoniously with the broader publishing program
• is able to seek and commission online content and select complementary imagery and material, to pair with published online material. (Creative commons and acknowledged).
• is based anywhere in the world, any age, any identification
• will commission, read and select submissions of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and to post on the website.
• has some proficiency in WordPress as well as an active engagement in social media (desirable)
• will generate a dynamic online presence that compliments the publications, and maintain fresh and relevant content
• Is available to work a minimum of three hours a week and ideally able to provide some day to day attention to web and social media
• will liaise with the Editor and Creative Strategist around content themes, and topics, to complement existing and new activities
• is deeply engaged and interested in contemporary international literature, and social and cultural issues
• Is self-motivating and very organised
• Is comfortable with turbulence

We won’t write ‘other activities as required’ because we hate that clause, but this list is not exhaustive and this new role will require, and benefit from the web editor’s own input, creativity, vision, and energy.

Please note: this is a volunteer/unpaid position. All people who work at Transportation Press are volunteers though we are actively seeking funding and this role will eventually be paid. Our published writers are paid, though we are not yet able to pay for online content.

To apply, please attach a one-page cover letter and a one-page CV and send to Rachel Edwards, Editor in Chief and Tadhg Muller, Creative Strategist (emails below). Your letter should directly respond to the above-mentioned posints. Applications close midnight December 4 (pick your own time zone).

Any questions? Please email both of us, Rachel and Tadhg at transportationalmanac@gmail.com and tadhgmuller@yahoo.co.uk
We look forward to receiving your applications.