folio literary management summer internship

So, there are two major kinds of publishing internships: remote internships and in-person internships (both of which are typically unpaid, but there are exceptions). However, there are some things you can do to become more experienced and therefore stand a better chance, which I’ll get to in a moment.īut first, like with all of my info posts, I’m going to quickly gloss over the basics. It’s through that paradox that your fate is going to inevitably revolve around luck.

Luck, not ability, is the overriding huge factor in landing your first internship, because you have to be at least loosely “qualified” to work for an agent or editor, but without having interned before, you, like most others applying, don’t really have qualifications (besides little things here and there). So before I say anything more, remember that.

At the original time of posting this, I’d just had the incredible good luck of landing an internship with a fantastic literary agent (an internship that is still ongoing, even today), and I’d gotten a couple questions about how exactly I did that.

Folio literary management summer internship