VOLUNTEER WITH LITERARY LIBERATION!
I would love to expand the team with a few choice people! Join our CHAT (it exists and it's open to subscribers) to access the link.
Hi, writers!
I am ready to expand beyond Lit Lib Daily! Here are some areas I could use support in. If that's you, fill out our application form:
Instead of this feeling like a transactional space, I want to bring its fullest potential forward, and have it really grow into a community. I’m interested in sourcing first from our community, hence opening it up to subscribers only to start. If you have the app, the link is already available to you! Join our community chat using the button below:
Where will most of this take place? On Literary Liberation’s main site, in the chat feature on the app or via Zoom.
✅ Assistant Event Facilitator/Admin Assistant: Moderating monthly Lit Lib craft chats — Make the featured author feel welcome, let in everyone from the waiting room, introduce the featured author, moderate the chat, ask the author questions, take notes, etc. Ensure each event you are responsible for runs smoothly. Zoom will be provided for these events. You would also pitch potential authors and industry leaders for future chats. You would help promote events online (visual materials would be provided).
You will upload recordings and transcripts to our database, lightly edit transcripts, and create time-stamps in the text. Lastly, you would gather feedback from community members and report back to ED. You must have a solid understanding of the writing and publishing industries and prior experience isn’t necessary, but is helpful.
✅ Admin Assistant – this role would also help make sure that everything is running smoothly with our ambassador program and circle leaders, and create and maintain an editorial calendar. You will be featured as a contributor on the site and have weekly check-ins.
Assistant Editor – Previous literary magazine or publishing experience required. Looking for 1-2 people max.
Responsibilities:
Editing and preparing submissions for publishing (lit lib daily and otherwise)
Creating bi-weekly content for the column “what she/he/they said,” where we highlight the work of an author using their own words.
Creating a weekly thread that is posted on Lit Lib (you can pitch your idea), and our quarterly ambassador welcome post.
Creating a resource list based on our pillars and working with our Admin assistant.
Work with Admin Assistant to create/update a welcome pdf as we grow that explains all of our offerings.
Lit Lib Ambassadors — Ambassadors are quarterly rotating leaders within our community who share unique content, help build a stronger community and help spread the word outside of our community. This position can be shared with up to 4 people, maximum, and you can work as a cohort.
Responsibilities:
Choose a member to spotlight twice a month (6 times total)
Offer at least one virtual gathering open to the entire community
Do a monthly welcome post for the entire community
Create content based on a specialty of yours once a month (it can be one post or a short series of posts each month)
Host three chat-only events for all members
Circle Leaders – Think of these as specialized micro communities within Literary Liberation. Circles will cover our main pillars: writing, wellness, creativity, parenthood. As long as liberatory practices and restorative methods are at the core of this work, I’m good.
Examples: someone might want to host a daily/weekly silent co-writing circle; someone might want to focus on a specific genre; someone might want to host a weekly feedback group. The idea is that this is available to the entire community on a consistent basis. Group sizes can be implemented, but this is more of a knowledge-exchange than a teacher/student dynamic. There can also be more than one thing if it is specific enough, for example we can have multiple book clubs.
Responsibilities:
Weekly check-ins at minimum
Keep a robust engagement of members
See where cross-pollination is possible (can two circles join forces and create one really special event/activity?)
Facilitate the needs of the group and communicate that to ED (Sherisa)
These are volunteer positions. As a thank you, you receive free access to Literary Liberation, and one free Lit Lib workshop a quarter.