Internships

Hannah Holmes & Jason Brown

Hannah Holmes and Jason Brown were Portland Magazine interns more than 20 years ago. Holmes’ books include The Secret Life of Dust (Wiley, 2001), Suburban Safari: A year on the Lawn (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007) and A Well Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself (Random House, 2008). Jason Brown’s fiction has been published in many periodicals, including the Atlantic, Harper’s, and Portland Magazine. His story collection, Why the Devil Chose New England For His Work, was published by Open City Books in 2007.

Patricia Summers

spent four months at PM in 2005 as an editorial intern. Five years later she held an administrative post in the International Affairs Office of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and managing the intern program. Today, she is the press officer at the British Consulate-General in New York.

Kyunhea Kwon

was an advertising intern at PM in 2007 before launching her career in advertising and public relations, beginning in Portland at Pierce Promotions. Presently she is in New York, an account supervisor at Saatchi & Saatchi.

Esme Deprez

has taken her bachelor’s degree from Boston College and master’s from Columbia University’s School of Journalism–and internship at Portland Magazine in 2006–on to a career in writing and reporting. She is currently a contributing writer to Bloomberg Businessweek.

Brittany Foley

interned at PM in 2008; since 2011, she has been at IDEXX Laboratories in Westbrook, presently as a sales connectivity consultant.

Amanda Smith

is a web designer at Maine Medical Center; in 2007 she was a design intern at Portland Magazine.

Betsy Caron

is a 2011 University of Maine graduate.  She spent 4 months as an editorial intern at PM in 2010. Today she is a web producer at MedTech Media in Portland.

Dear Colin Sargent & the staff at Portland Monthly,

Thank you all for making my internship experience here so invaluable, challenging, and fun. It was great meeting all of you and I’ll miss you! Thanks for helping me get that NYC job!

Best,
Leah

Award-winning Portland Magazine, established 1985, has a nearly 40 year history of year-round internships that have acted as a springboard for promising writers and graphic artists to work in larger markets.

Praising Portland Magazine for “original regional coverage and literary merit,” the New York Public Library has purchased Portland Magazine’s entire backlist for its permanent collection.

Portland Magazine has played host to interns from Harvard, Yale, Brown, Simmons, Vassar, Bowdoin, Colby, Bates, the University of Maine system, and many others, including journalists who elect to participate at the post-graduate level. A number of them, including Jason Brown (Driving the Heart, W.W. Norton, 1999), who has since earned critical acclaim for his short stories and a writer-in-residence chair at Stanford, have gone on to larger markets. In a small, high-energy environment, Portland Magazine uniquely allows student interns to see a top-notch commercial magazine create itself in front of their very eyes. In fact, they help create it and participate in the miracle of each issue as it comes to life.

Gain valuable hands-on, real-world experience while witnessing first hand (and participating in) the process of creating and bringing to market a world-class publication. Whether you are an aspiring writer, graphic designer, or business owner, an internship with Portland Magazine is an excellent way to gain the working knowledge and insight needed to launch your career!

Please Note: You must already be in Maine to apply for your internship.

A Portland Magazine internship is guaranteed to include direct involvement with the creation of three consecutive issues of the magazine. A minimum of 15 hours a week are required for a period of four months, during which an intern will rotate through all departments of the magazine to assure familiarity with, and sensitivity toward, all the elements that make up the finished product. Along with leading Portland Magazine, publisher/editor Colin Sargent teaches Magazine Master Class, and Know Your Audience at the College of William and Mary. He will direct the editorial product, and be commenting on interns’ work.

Research and fact-checking skills are honed during this period, while at the same time making the emerging writer aware of the need to understand his or her audience. Editorial assignments are customized to rapidly advance each intern’s existing skill level; many interns earn bylines in the magazine before their term is over.

 A minimum of 15 hours a week are required for a period of four months. 

Interns must expect to use their personal vehicle to make deliveries, chase after stories, shoot photos, and other magazine-related duties.

Open to current college students and graduates. Credit Hours for college students: 3-6, depending on the length of internship. This is an unpaid internship.

Please fill in the form below to begin the internship application process.

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