Job Listing: Executive Director

markcallanan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:53:06 +0000

POSITION

Executive Director, Riddle Fence Inc.

JOB SUMMARY

The Executive Director is responsible for all aspects of the promotion and sale of Riddle Fence, for coordinating its various fundraising activities, and for the general business management of Riddle Fence Inc. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director identifies and pursues new promotional venues and maintains current venues. He/she is responsible for maintaining Riddle Fence Inc.’s financial records and its subscription database, for selling advertising, and for expanding the journal’s subscription base. The Executive Director is also responsible for maintaining communication with the members of the Board of Directors as well as with the Managing Editor, taking Board minutes and assuming other administrative duties as determined by the Board.

SKILLS REQUIRED

·      Exemplary demonstrated organizational and effective interpersonal/communication skills
·       Exemplary written communication skills
·       Experience in non-profit administration, public relations/promotion, media relations, communications, publishing and/or community outreach highly desireable, previous magazine publishing experience also highly desireable
·      Computer proficiency and an excellent knowledge of Adobe, Excel, Microsoft Word, Photoshop, etc.

Please forward all applications by August 23, 2010 (received deadline). This position is for a four-month term with the option to renew.

Riddle Fence
PO Box 7092
St. John’s, NL
Canada
A1E 3Y3

info@riddlefence.com

Poetry Reading by Riddle Fence Contributors

markcallanan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:50:00 +0000

Riddle Fence will host a reading by poets Danielle Devereaux and James Langer, at the Ship Pub, Solomon’s Lane (St. John’s), on Tuesday, July 27th at 8 p.m. Both poets are St. John’s natives and recent contributors to Riddle Fence.

The reading is free and open to the general public. Finger foods will be provided. Books, copies of Riddle Fence and Riddle Fence subscriptions will be available for sale.

For more information, contact info@riddlefence.com.

Readers’ bios:

Danielle Devereaux has recently moved back to St. John’s from Montreal. Her unpublished poetry manuscript, which is still in progress, was shortlisted for the 2009 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals, including The Fiddlehead, Arc, and Riddle Fence.

James Langer is a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead. His poems have been published in numerous literary journals, including TickleAce, lichen, Arc, Grain, Event, The Fiddlehead, The Newfoundland Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, and Riddle Fence. Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, he now lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Call for Submissions, Riddle Fence #7

markcallanan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:02:01 +0000

Riddle Fence is currently accepting submissions for its seventh issue. We are considering previously unpublished submissions of fiction, creative non-fiction, and for the first time, artwork.

Please note: We are not accepting unsolicited submissions of poetry for this issue; we will resume accepting poetry when we place our call for submissions for issue eight.

Please send no more than 1 piece of prose (max. 5,000 words) OR 3 pieces of artwork. Payment is $30 per printed page of text and $30 per image (plus a copy of the issue in which your work appears) for first Canadian serial rights.

The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2010.

E-mail submissions can be sent to the genre appropriate email address below. Please submit text as Word or Rich Text Format attachments and include it in the body of your email; please send images as JPEGs (minimum 300 dpi):

fiction@riddlefence.com

non-fiction@riddlefence.com

artwork@riddlefence.com

Submissions may also be made by regular post (please include a self-addressed stamped envelope or sufficient IRC postage in the case of submissions from outside Canada):

Riddle Fence

PO Box 7092

St. John’s, NL

A1E 3Y3

Canada

For information, contact info@riddlefence.com.

Fakelore Call for Submissions

markcallanan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:22:09 +0000

Please click on the image below for details of our “fakelore” call for submissions.

Issue #4

markcallanan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:23:02 +0000

is in the mail. If you haven’t already received it, you should soon. Thanks for your patience. It will be worth it.

More on the SPARKS Literary Festival

markcallanan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:21:29 +0000

Here’s a link to an article in The Telegram about the upcoming literary festival at Memorial University. We’ll be there–of course we’ll be there.

Best of

markcallanan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:10:29 +0000

We made Vehicule Press’ best-of list for 2009. Huzzah!

Notice to subscribers

markcallanan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:56:00 +0000

We’ve now received the entire run of issue number four from the printer and are currently putting together the mailing of subscription copies. You should receive this issue within the next week and a half. Hope you enjoy it.

SPARKS Literary Festival

markcallanan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:42:56 +0000

Riddle Fence will be attending the SPARKS literary festival at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s on Sunday, January 17, 2010 at the Petro-Canada Hall, School of Music. The festival runs from 10:30 AM – 6 PM.

SPARKS is a day-long literary festival sponsored by the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University. It celebrates contemporary Newfoundland writers and writing. The festival will feature readings and discussions, book and journal displays, author signings, and letterpress publishing.

For more information, visit the SPARKS website.

Bernice Morgan and Joan Clark

markcallanan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:12:31 +0000

This is an audio clip from the Joan Clark-Bernice Morgan interview published in issue number four of Riddle Fence.

To download, please click here.