Abstract
This position is 8 weeks long: Monday, June 1 through Sunday July 25, 2027. Students must be on campus and perform all responsibilities in person.
The broad strokes of the fellowship:
June 1-6: tabling for Living Writers at reunion, intro meetings and beginning LW reading assignments, supervised by CJ Hauser
June 7- June 20: working the Colgate Writers Conference, as supervised by Kanitha Snow and the CWC staff
June 21-July 25: regular meetings + working to plan the Living Writers Series, supervised by CJ Hauser
Colgate Writers Conference responsibilities:
Each Fellow leads one area:
- Events: Coordinate craft talks, panels, and readings; work with the A/V team to keep events on schedule; and support the Colgate Bookstore with faculty book sales.
- Social Events: Plan evening social gatherings and help create a warm, welcoming atmosphere.
- Participant Services: Serve as the first contact for participant questions the week of the conference, manage faculty office hours, and help run participant readings.
- Logistics: Coordinate golf cart shuttles, support participant and faculty housing with Colgate’s Conference & Events team, and help keep day-to-day operations running smoothly.
Communications: Curate content for the daily newsletter and capture the week’s highlights on social media.
All Fellows will:
- Write introductions for faculty readings and talks, and serve as liaisons to faculty
- Before the conference: prepare housing for participants and faculty, assemble welcome packets and registration materials, and help prepare the week’s social events
- During the conference: support check-in, opening and closing nights, and the daily Fellows meeting
- Pitch in wherever needed, from unexpected requests to tear-down
Living Writers responsibilities:
-Table at reunion for the series on June 4th and 5th
-read 9 books over the course of the summer + take lead accountability for 2-3 of the series texts
-In-person meetings 2-3 times a week, 1.5 hours each, to discuss texts, share and revise work, and plan author programming
-Each fellow will write a researched report on each of their assigned texts to share and present with the group. They will also create, revise, and publish web copy and flyer copy for those texts and work directly with web and graphic designers
-Each fellow will do a self-guided project over the course of the summer ranging from creating a display in the library to create artistic materials to spread the word about the series
-Fellows will be asked to do some physical work in the form of picking up books and bringing them to community organizations around town– but applicants with all accessibility needs are welcome and this part of the gig can be reconsidered
-All work will must be completed by Sunday July 25– but there are two fall events that should be on fellows’ calendars as well:
-introduce one of their texts at the Living Writers zoom kickoff event the last week of August
-present on the summer’s work at the AHUM colloquium in the fall