While AmLit is a pretty casual organization that is a lot of fun to be involved with, we do have some structure to our group. Here is the basic AmLit information.

Meetings

We have general staff meetings once a week, on Wednesday nights at 8:30PM. We hold these meetings to plan events, bounce ideas off each other, plan out the magazine, and to figure out any other general AmLit business. They can be raucous and loud, and are ridiculously joyful unless it is finals week. They usually last about 45 minutes.

NEXT MEETING: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 AT 8:30 IN MGC 247

There will also sometimes be additional meetings during the week. Sometimes these will just be for editors, or for people helping with the design of the magazine, or sometimes we just want to see each other more than once a week or there is some sort of AmLit crisis looming on the horizon that needs to be resolved. In any case, these are scheduled on a as-needed basis.

Editors

AmLit editors are the movers and shakers of AmLit, and the people who do the most work and have to answer the most insane emails from me. Editors are chosen at the beginning of every Fall semester by the Editors-in-Chief. Anyone can apply to be an editor, although prior experience with AmLit or your high school literary magazine is a plus. The applications for Editorships will be passed out at the first general meeting (time and date information coming soon!) and we can answer any additional information at that time. Here are the AmLit editors.

Editor(s)-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief=AmLit God. Enough said. No, in truth the Editor-in-Chief is pretty much the Mafia boss of AmLit. They oversee all of the editors and are in charge of communicating with all the various bureaucratic aspects of being a major campus organization. They also run meetings and are extremely professional, serious, curt, and to the point during these meetings.

2009/2010 Editors-in-Chief: Rachel Webb and Michael Levy

Left to right: Jamie (EIC 2008/2009) Rachel and Mike (EIC's 2009/2010)

Genre Editors

There are four sets of Genre editors—Poetry, Prose, Photo, and Art/Design. Genre editors are in charge of leading the good fight in the review sessions. They moderate the discussions and are in charge of notifying all of the artists who submitted in their category, and keeping in touch with them throughout the magazine production process. They are also responsible for fetching the Editor-in-Chief coffee from the Dav.

2009/2010 Genre Editors:
Art Editor: Christina Farella
Assistant Art Editor: Emi Ruff-Wilkinson
Photography Editor: Jess Warren
Assistant Photography Editor: Danielle King
Prose Editor: Josh Little
Assistant Prose Editor: Sarah Cough
Poetry Editor: Kennedy Nadler
Assistant Poetry Editor: Jonathan Holin

Graphic Design Editor

The Graphic Design Editor is an imperative nut/bolt in the AmLit machine. And hopefully they are well oiled. Anyway, the Graphic Design Editor is responsible for packaging the content of the magazine in an aesthetically pleasing, original, breathtaking way. They are usually a Graphic Design major, because God knows none of the rest of us know how to work InDesign, and they are infinitely patient with all the volumes of word documents and jpegs that come hurtling towards their Macs.

2009/2010 Design Editor: Shea Cadrin
2009/2010 Assistant Design Editors: Rebecca Prowler and Hannah Karl

Copy Editor

The Copy Editor is the AmLit Mom. They go through our work, checking for typos and errors that might make us look stupid in front of our teachers and friends. They keep a fine tooth comb in their back pocket in order to meticulously go over every letter in the magazine. Basically, they are our built-in spellcheck, grammarcheck, and does-that-make-sense-check. The copy editing team is also responsible for distribution so that people actually, you know, read the magazine we worked so hard on.

2009/2010 Copy Editor: Anj Lum
2009/2010 Assistant Copy Editors: Alex Burchfield and Elice Rojas-Cruz

Web Editor

In the near future, someone besides me will be in charge of keeping this website in tip-top shape, and making it the freaking best literary magazine website ever. This is a new position at AmLit (since the website itself is still in its infancy). As a result, we desperately need someone who knows something about web design to take this over and fertilize it and make it blossom. Yes, I just referenced fertilizer in a quest to secure a web designer. That is how much we need a good one. This position is wide open at the moment!

2009/2010 Web Editor: Morgan Jordan
2009/2010 Assistant Web Editor: Amanda Osborn

Events Editor

If you are a social butterfly and adore talking to strangers, AmLitties, and on-campus vendors, this is the Editorship for you. The Events Editor is in charge of, quite simply, Events. Their biggest responsibility is the release party for the magazine at the end of each semester, which is a big extravaganza at the end of the year where we joyfully toss our finished magazine at all of our friends, family and professors. This is a big deal for AmLit, and the Events Editor oversees this event in its entirety.

2009/2010 Events Editor: Cody Steele
2009/2010 Assistant Events Editor: Brittany Stewart

Archival Editor

The Archival Editor is in charge of organizing the AmLit archives (which currently consists of an unorganized pile of old magazine in the corner of the office), and scanning the physical archives to make a digital archive of the life work of AmLit. Past and present AmLits and AmLitties deserve to be honored. The Archival Editor will also be in charge of creating and maintaining a relationship with the University Library in order to create and maintain an official AmLit archive. By the way, if you are a History major, this is right up your alley and great for a resume. Just sayin’.

2009/2010 Archival Editors: Emma Wimmer and Ali Goldstein