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Interns

Interns

Felice Gums
About Words Agency

We are a non-fee-charging agency.

About Words Agency sponsors an intern program with the neighboring colleges and universities, namely Agnes Scott College and Georgia State University. The internship is designed to mentor and nurture aspiring literary agents, editors and writers and places the interns right in the midst of the literary industry. The interns, upon mastering the duties set before them, are offered permanent positions with the agency and the opportunity to advance to being agents themselves. It is a rigorous program designed to turn out the best in the field, so only the most dedicated and capable candidates can and will be chosen.

No payments are ever due to the agency.

Requirements: Interns must have their own email account with daily access to same; they must be charismatic with no qualms about speaking to industry professionals via email, phone or in person; accurate typist with Microsoft Word on computer; reasonably detail-oriented; able and willing to organize and maintain files; pleasant and patient personality; transportation to and from the north Atlanta area; mostly an AWA intern must enjoy reading books and have a passion and dedication to the industry that drives them to want to succeed! The internship requires between10-20 hours per week between meetings and home time. Interns are offered a written contract to share commissions with the agency.

About Words Agency receives all types of queries--fiction and nonfiction--and works with a wide range of books. See the website for details.
http://agency.aboutwords.org

Please respond to: Felice at aboutwords dot org with the word "intern" somewhere in the subject line.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Felice Gums
About Words Agency
We are a non-fee-charging agency.

Alyssa Stafford

Alyssa Stafford is an English-Creative Writing major at Agnes Scott College with a minor in Africana Studies, two disciplines that she is truly passionate about. She lives her life by Henry Miller’s idea that “the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” For her, there is nothing more important than social, cultural, and political awareness. She is twenty years old and a junior at Agnes Scott College. Nella Larsen’s Passing was the kind of novel that satisfied her desire to be stimulated with awareness and submerged into some of the most powerful cultural experiences of being African American in America. She is a nonfiction writer because she has found that the true experiences of people are often more meaningful than any story of imagination. She grew up in New England and spent a year living in Poland—the history and culture of these places always inspirit her work as a writer.

Travel writing and memoirs really speak to Alyssa, but she’ll read any work of fiction that is heavily based in cultural experiences. Her favorite authors include Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Wright, Jack Kerouac, and Junot Diaz. She is forever writing about her year in Poland, the cultural lessons she learned there, the family that she became a part of, and how her experiences shape(d) her identity.

Her personal accomplishments “have always been achieved because I am passionate about everything I do. I am a problem solver, an incredible organizer and multi-tasker, and whenever I take on a position, I own it.” It is with this attitude of achievement that she approaches everything she does including her position at AWA.

 

Clare McBride

A college student by day and the book blogger known as The Literary Omnivore by every waking moment, twenty-year-old Clare McBride is a rising junior at Agnes Scott College, where she studies English Literature and Organizational Management. A Franco-American military baby, McBride has lived in Alabama and California before her family settled in Georgia. She does not remember not being able to read. To McBride, stories are one of the most important things in life; it's how humans organize the world around them, which makes telling stories and sharing them part of our very nature. That's why she considers herself a reader and writer without boundaries—her bookshelves cover everything from nonfiction narratives to historical fiction, and her writings include contemporary fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. It's also the reason she's an actress.
Reared on The Lord of the Rings and Neil Gaiman, fantasy is McBride's first and truest love—she's forever amazed by the way speculative fiction can shed light on the here and now. But she'll happily read just about anything; she only asks that it be good. Her favorite authors include Michael Chabon, Jane Austen, Jacqueline Carey, Jeffrey Eugenides, J. R. R. Tolkien, Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood, and Mike Carey, just to name a few, but she's always looking for more authors and books to fall in love with.

Michaela Canzius

Michaela Canzius is a first generation Guyanese-American and a senior at Georgia State University majoring in English with a concentration in advanced composition and rhetoric. Although composition and rhetoric are often considered to be on the opposite end of the English spectrum from literature, she feels that her studies in rhetoric have only made her appreciate literary works more. She's learned that everything said and written has a specific purpose and it is how the author chooses to present the information--the details about a character, the scenery, or an event--that makes a story intriguing. "Every author is faced with a maze of infinite possibilities for each story and the best ones find their way through."

Michaela's favorite genres to include: mystery/suspense, realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and drama. A few of her favorites are the Harry Potter series, Sense and Sensibility, Crime and Punishment, Ender’s Shadow, The Hobbit, Wicked, and anything by J.A. Jance. As far as her own writing, she had her first short story published in the 2003 High Desert Young Authors’ Conference in San Bernadino county. Since then she has known that she wanted to write for a living. Since she's written several short stories, a novel length fan fiction and countless poems. Though she enjoys writing, Michaela's passion for it stems directly from her love of reading. That and her love of the craft make her a great fit for this agency.

 

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