Internship offered by Slash Pine Press:

The internship creates a space where undergraduate students conceive, create, and promote real-world literary arts projects that inherently form community.

Each activity interns undertake for Slash Pine intersects the world beyond the classroom walls, often beyond the university confines. Interns take on projects within in real-live chapbook making: editorial consultation, chapbook production, and chapbook promotion. Interns take part in the production and coordination of unconventional literary arts event.  Each student participates in a larger “arts and creativity exchange” where a group of students from Slash Pine and from a different university come together and perform and create work, while also getting to know one another personally.

In the internship, a student learns what can be termed as “hard skills”: book making, event coordination, PR, etc. Interns take direct ownership in these projects; this means different things at different times. The end results are more personally affecting and resonant.

Slash Pine staples: hard-work, adventure, and collaboration.

Ryan McHale, former intern, sums up the value of the internship:

Slash Pine creates space. The foundation of Slash Pine’s space is equality. Anyone who has anything to do with writing and/or other forms of art is welcome in Slash Pine’s space, so long as they are willing to contribute to the well-being of the community. It is our goal as interns to fill this space with a functioning community of artists and writers who can collaborate, critique, and inform each other’s work. As physics stresses an essential interweaving of time and space, so too does Slash Pine. Our newly created space comes packaged with a sense of time. Contemporary culture’s shift towards digital mediums created a globalized space in which a nebulous community of artists can do art. Slash Pine recognizes the pros and cons of our culture’s globalized space. Our reaction to globalized space is that of the pirate; we plunder what is needed and use our newly acquired loot toward our own means: creating a tangible space for our community to thrive in. We need our space to be alive and visceral in order to foster personality through clarity and palpable exchange of ideas. Our time gives form to our space, and vice versa. Slash Pine exists in the now as a space to explore. With any luck, one can find voice, form, style, friends, peers, direction etc. in exploration of our space. As interns, our job is to push the boundaries of Slash Pine’s space at strategic points. We must also be willing to quell the boundaries where needed. The most exciting aspect of our space is that we are active members in it; we breathe life into the program and in turn our energy is transferred into the time and space that Slash Pine creates. This is a unique, radical opportunity and one that I feel has great potential to revive interest in the arts.