Full-time, $45,000 per year.
Job Opportunity: Ad Sales Rep, WordWorks magazine
Flexible hours, part-time, work from home, commission-based (25%). Application deadline June 12, 2020.
Job Opportunity: Publisher, the Verdict, Vancouver
Full-time, permanent. Application deadline: March 20, 2020.
Shashi Bhat, Editor-in-Chief, EVENT Magazine
“The breadth of creativity is exceptional if editors are willing to search for it.”
CANCELLED – Get help with your magazine’s finances! Register for a 1/2 hour consultation with Jessica Somers on November 7
Cancelled because of lack of interest.
Kerry Slavens, Editor-in-Chief, Page One Publishing
“You have to really focus on what will appeal to your niche audience, because a magazine is really a conversation with them.”
Alberta Magazine Awards Looking for Judges
AMPA needs professional editors, writers, publishers, photographers, art directors, designers and illustrators who can volunteer to judge for the 2018-2019 awards season.
MagNet 2017: Getting Big by Staying Small: Magazines, Digital & the Power of Niche
A report on the session by Natasha Sanders-Kay, MagsBC Board Member.
Job Opportunity: City Editor – Vancouver magazine (1 Year Contract) – Yellow Pages
The City Editor will be our in-house expert on all things Vancouver.
Job Opportunity: Writer-Editor-Journalist – Adbusters Media Foundation
Adbusters Media Foundation is looking for a creative writer/journalist with an activist bent. Must be politically minded and engaged with the pressing issues of our time.
MagsBC Presents Inclusiveness Panel at WORD Vancouver
MagsBC board member Natasha Sanders-Kay has organized a panel at WORD on Sunday Sept. 25 @ 3:40 p.m. called “Inclusive Magazine Publishing: Barriers and Strategies for Writers and Publishers.”
Kaija Pepper, Editor of Dance International
“As an editor, I love going into a piece of writing and helping to break it open.”
Jody Carrow, Editor-in-Chief of the Claremont Review
“If you want to know the future, pay attention to what youth are doing in their art, what they are trying to tell you or show you about the human condition and what is possible for humanity.”
Karl and Stephanie Johanson, Editor & Art Director of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine
Unlike some other magazines Neo-opsis values story first and literary quality second. Karl: “I think it’s easier to fix bad grammar than to fix an uninspiring story.”
Richard Olafson, Editor & Publisher of The Pacific Rim Review of Books
“We provide a place for the long-form essay which is a more serious study of a book.”
Andrea Lister, editor, British Columbia History
“Go to editing, writing, and publishing events and find or build a community. Editing can be a lonely job and it is wonderful to have colleagues to learn from, share stories with and rant about the apostrophe usage.”
Daniel Zomparelli, editor, Poetry is Dead
“I genuinely love reading, and magazines provide the opportunities for new work to be out before they turn into books or movies. It’s like the front lines of knowledge and literature.”
Terry Denomme, Founder and Editor of Canadian Hot Rods Magazine
“What I love most about producing this magazine are the CARS! I love driving cars, photographing cars, and talking cars. I never get bored. I’ve found my passion, and I’m really lucky that way.”
Delores Broten, Editor of The Watershed Sentinel
“I think the world of Canadian publishing is a wonderful experience. It may not be lucrative, but it is a community of fascinating people. The secret is to not let the economy worry you!”