Call for Readers
by Barbara Westwood Diehl
The Baltimore Review is often in need of readers in all genres. With over 8,000 submissions/year, we definitely need a village of readers to vote/comment on submissions, so that we can respond to writers in a timely way.
Readers get experience on the editor side of Submittable (always an eye-opening experience), and I recommend this activity to all writers who want to participate in their writing community. The experience may prompt you to take a hard look at your own writing, too. MFA and other writing program students, this can be an excellent educational experience for you.
If you live in the Baltimore area (yes, we work virtually, but it's great when people can come to an occasional meeting and help with events—OK, update on that: we're all Zoom/Google Meet/email for the time being), would like to volunteer some time with your homegrown literary journal, are not currently affiliated with a literary journal, and do not have work in the submission process with us, please send a brief statement of interest and your writing bio/credentials to editor@baltimorereview.org.
Something new: Don’t want to make an open-ended commitment, working to the point of burnout/fading interest? More interested in getting some experience and moving on? Want to commit to, say, two or three or four months? We can do that! Also, as much as we want our staff people to be locals, we can consider people outside our geographical area for these limited-time commitments.
Feel free to share. Note, too, that we want to have a diverse group reading for us. BR staff members don’t fit any cookie-cutter mold. Makes life a lot more interesting.
Thanks!