For the summer issue Ambit is seeking fresh voices from across the globe, looking for poetry, prose and illustration from writers under 35 years of age.
The deadline for submissions is on Monday 24 April.
Submit to:
Ambit Young Writers
17 Priory Gardens
Highgate
N6 5QY
Prose pieces of up to 5000 words will be considered, as will poetry of any length.
We’re looking for someone to come to the office one day a week and help us out with all of our editorial activities. Have a look at the description below and see if it looks good to you…
Some information about the role:
The position is one day per week and is unpaid*. It will probably be on Thursdays, but we can be a little flexible on that point.
Duties of the position include (but are not limited to):
* Opening post
* Sorting submissions pile
* Reading copy
* Sending rejections to writers
* Contacting successful writers
* Formatting and typesetting copy
* Proofreading
* Posting copies of the issue to readers
* Helping out at events
Basically the magazine is put together by an editorial team of three people including the assistant, so we all pretty much do a bit of everything. As a quarterly magazine, it takes us three months to put together an issue; that would be the minimum time for the position to be filled, really. We won’t lock you in the basement if you get an amazing job offer a couple of months in and have to leave us, but we’re definitely looking for someone who is thinking of staying on medium-ish term.
If you’re interested please send us a letter or e-mail with your CV to the usual address, info@ambitmagazine.co.uk
Also note that there aren’t any other opportunities available, so speculative CVs looking for full time work, two-week internships or anything of that nature will be politely rejected. Reasonably politely. Sorry guys.
(*free tea and biscuits, though. Also, oftentimes there is cake.)
Ambit issue 203 is now on sale!
Buy it now:
UK: £9 : buy now
Rest of Europe: £12/€16 : buy now
Rest of World: £14/$22 : buy now
Featuring:
Fred Voss
Michael Foreman
Catherine Eisner
Sally Fryer
Gavin Bantock
Dai Vaughan
Jack Foreman
Euron Griffith
Paul Goddard
Charles Shearer
Graham Fulton
Judith Kazantzis
Carl Tighe
Alix Nathan
Joseph Childs
Alexis Lykiard
Helen Kitson
Mireille Fauchon
Daphne Gloag
Nick Sweeney
Michael Foreman
Jane Deverson
Anthony Edkins
Lamorna Elmer
Astrid Chesney
Will Nichols
Ken Cox
Lucy Ann Watt
David Grubb
Ron Sandford
Our 200th edition of Ambit magazine was reviewed in the 5 November 2010 issue of the Times Literary Supplement. Read the full article below:
The cover artwork for Ambit issue 203 is a fantastic print by Chris Pig. Watch him pull a print below.
Alex McDonald has kindly pointed us toward this lovely photograph from the launch night of our covers exhibition. Taken by Simon Marsham, it features Sam Riviere in full flow.
Welcome to Ambit’s new website. We hope you like the new look. It should hopefully be easier to find your way around without two menus competing for your attention.
The big change is that we’ve followed the rest of the crowd and set up a blog so that we can post short updates and other items of interest. Fingers crossed we’ll keep postings reasonably frequent, featuring video from our events, and material from Ambit’s 50 years of back issues. Time-willing we might even be able to write a few features on how the magazine is put together…
Please let us know what you think of the new site – either leave a comment here or send us an e-mail at the usual info@ambitmagazine.co.uk
