UChicago Spring Break Career Treks
UChicago Career Treks are short, immersive programs that take students beyond campus to explore careers through site visits in major U.S. and global cities. On a trek, students go behind the scenes at top organizations—tour offices, meet professionals and alumni, ask questions in small-group settings, and discover exclusive internship and job opportunities designed to help you launch your career. This spring, students can choose from 37 destinations across industries including business, tech, policy, arts, health, finance, and more. Applications are due Tuesday, January 20 at 9:00 a.m. Students apply with a resume and short responses; financial assistance is available.
Contemporary Literary Publishing Lab – Writer's Match
The UChicago Contemporary Literary Publishing Lab (CLP) is facilitating a writer's match event! The event matches student writers from across universities based on genre interest. After participants are connected, they develop their own partnership based on their needs and schedules. If you are interested in being paired up with a fellow writer to share your work, give and get feedback, or just make friends with another writer, then fill out the form linked here.
National Geographic – Summer 2026 Editorial Operations Intern
The National Geographic magazine is offering an editorial internship to students interested in journalism from May/June- August/September 2026. Students will work with the copyediting, research, production, and international editions teams; some tasks may include to identifing and fact-checking sources for articles, reviewing articles for style and grammar, and communicating linguistic intricacies to translators. National Geographic asks that applicants submit a link to their portfolio, or a previously published writing sample, alongside their other materials. The deadline for this internship is rolling. To read more about requirements and how to apply, visit the application posting here.
Bucknell Center for Undergraduate Poets– Summer 2026 Session
Current sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduates at US colleges are eligible to apply for the Bucknell Center for Undergraduate Poets, run by Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts. This one-week seminar program provides emerging poets with the time and space for reading, writing, and discussion and the opportunity to study with established poets. This summer’s session will run from June 7-June 14, 2026, and will feature two visiting faculty members: Airea D. Matthews and Chet’la Sebree. The program has twelve spaces, and no application fee; participants will receive a travel stipend and free lodging and meals. Applications are open through January 31, 2026. To view the application portal, visit this link.
The Point Magazine – Summer 2026 Editorial Intern
The Point is a print and digital magazine of philosophical writing based on the two convictions that humanistic thinking has relevance for contemporary life, and that our lives are full of experiences worth thinking about. They are seeking an editorial intern to work on a variety of tasks relating to the editorial process, as well as some marketing and outreach projects. Interns will also have the opportunity to contribute content to the magazine. The internship will run from June 8 to August 7, for 32-40 hours/week, and is part of the Jeff Metcalf internship program. Applications will be open until
February 1. You can apply through their Handshake posting here.
Luminarts Cultural Foundation– Creative Writing Fellowship
The Creative Writing Fellowship, sponsored by the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, awards excellence in creative writing in the categories of poetry and/or prose, both fiction and nonfiction.
To be eligible for the Creative Writing Fellowship, applicants must: be between the ages of 18 and 30 years old on the date of applying; be currently enrolled in, or have completed, a degree program, conservatory, or other professional artist development program (not necessarily specific to the program for which they are applying); live within 150 miles of the Chicago Loop. Applications are due February 1, 2026.
NYU Study Abroad– Writers in Florence & Writers in Paris
NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences offers month-long summer writing retreats in Florence and Paris, open to any applicants currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program. Participants focus on one of three genres—Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, or Poetry—and attend daily workshops and craft seminars. Florence offers Fiction and Poetry, while Paris offers all three. The NYU course credit from these programs may be transferable to other institutions, based on the participant. The Paris program runs from June 22 to July 18, 2026, and the Florence program runs from May 25-June 20; housing and meals are included in the tuition for both. Applications are NOW OPEN, with a priority deadline of February 1, 2026. NYU CAS encourages interested students to join their mailing list here, and to direct questions to cas.summerabroad@nyu.edu. This page has more information on their application process.
Speculative Literature Foundation – Speculative Literature Intern
The Speculative Literature Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting literary quality in speculative fiction through grants, interviews and educational modules, events, and more. The organization was founded by writer, editor, academic, and University of Chicago alum Mary Ann Mohanraj, who also founded the multiple-award-winning speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons. The Speculative Literature Foundation is looking for an intern to work virtually 2-5 hours/week in Chicago from March to August on a number of projects, including relating to arts administration and publishing. If interested, please visit their Handshake posting, and reach out to managing director Connor Nevitt at managing_dir@speculativeliterature.org. Applications are due February 10.
Allbritton Journalism Institute– 2026-2028 Reporting Fellowship
AJI is a nonprofit educational organization based in Washington, DC, that partners with NOTUS (News Of The United States) to train upcoming political journalists. This highly-competitive two-year fellowship selects 10 early-career journalists each year. Beginning in September 2026, this year’s cohort will participate in classroom training, learn on-the-job at NOTUS alongside veteran reporters, and receive an annual salary of $60,000. Applications for the 2026-2028 cohort are due February 18, 2026 at 11:59 EST. For the application guidelines, visit this portal.
Summer School in Italy – Poesiæuropa
Students are invited to apply to attend Poesiæuropa, an interdisciplinary "summer school" held on Isola Polvese, Lake Trasimeno (Italy) offering a reflection on humanistic culture starting out from the perspective of poetry with the aim of reconsidering the value of our humanistic and spiritual traditions and collectively building visions for the future. The 2026 fellowship, which covers food, lodging, and attendance at all conference events, will run for four full days from June 3-6. Programming includes a keynote lecture, seminars, workshops, presentations of fellows' work, and poetry readings. This year's edition–Poesiæuropa's eighth– follows the thematic areas "echoes from the future," "work," and "noise." To apply, please send a curriculum vitae and a 500-word abstract of the academic or artistic work you intend to present to info@spaziohumanities.it by March 2. For more information on Poesiæuropa, the application guidelines, and this year's themes, click here. For questions, please contact Jennifer Scappettone (jscape@uchicago.edu) or Alessandro Ludovico Minnucci (minnucci@uchicago.edu).
Sourcebooks – Career in Books Webinar Series
Sourcebooks, a publishing house noted among the Most Innovative Companies list of 2024, and Best Workplaces for Innovators list of 2023, offers a free, semiregular webinar series called “A Career In Books”; in this series, Sourcebooks employees across different departments explain how they got into publishing, what they do day-to-day, and what advice they have for prospective publishing careers. There are no upcoming webinars, but the total archive of their previous events can be found here.
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