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Career Advice for Writers

A sampling of career advice articles, including many annual reports of the academic job market, are available here for free:

"2010-11 Report on the Academic Job Market" by Sara Flood
November 2011

"Job Seekers Face Historically Weak Academic Job Market" by Emily Lu
November 2010

"Annual Report on the Academic Job Market 2009" by Kristin Lane
November 2009

"Economic Crisis Affects Academic Job Market" by Emily Lu
November 2008

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Poetry Manuscript:
Some Ideas on Creation and Order" by Jeffrey Levine
January 2007

"Report on the 2005-2006 Academic Job Market" by Kristin Hahn and Caren Scott
November 2006

"Annual Report on the Academic Job Market: 2005" by Andrea Quarracino
October 2005

"A Report on the Academic Workplace:
Opportunities Decline in 2003–04" by Kirsten Hilgeford
November 2004

"Poor Economy Weakens Academic Job Market" by Emily Lu
September 2003

"The Recession and the Academic Job Market" by Emily Lu
September 2002

"Working in Publishing" by Hope Smith
November 2001

"Preparing for the MLA Interview" by Philip Gerard
November 1999

"Helping with the Internship Search" by Supriya Bhatnagar
October 1999

Read more: We publish up to seven career articles each year. A full listing of these job list articles are available on AWP eLink in the Job List section. Only current AWP members have access to eLink.

Submit an article: The editors of AWP Job List welcome submissions of articles on professional advancement for writers & teachers. Manuscripts of about 2,000 words should be prepared in the same general format as those for The Writer's Chronicle. Please see the guidelines for submissions for more information.