The Avery Review Open Call for Editors 2024
SEEKING EDITOR AT LARGE AND GUEST EDITOR
APPLICATIONS DUE JANUARY 7, 2024
The Avery Review is thrilled to launch its third annual open call for editors. We are currently seeking applications for the roles of editor at large and guest editor.
This call is part of our effort to create more editorial space, to expand the voices and objects typically considered “architectural,” not just with our authors but with our community of editors. This ongoing project of restructuring and expanding who and how we edit aims to make sure the conversation at the Avery Review (and those voices shaping it) can evolve. Our hope is that these new perspectives can find their way into the journal not just as authors but also as editors, defining the momentum and direction of conversations at the journal.
In order to accommodate folks at different stages of their careers and with different interests, the Avery Review has three editorial roles—contributing editors, editors at large, and guest editors—which editors may move between during their time at the journal (now capped at ten years). Current and outgoing editors are responsible for bringing in new editors through the annual open call. We see this transparent and reciprocal structure as a way to help the journal meet new editors wherever they are, just as it helps new editors meet the journal where it is.
Editorial Roles
Contributing editor: Consider this the most engaged of editorial roles. Contributing editors review all editorial submissions, edit for all five issues every year, and participate in the selection process for our Essay Prize. Contributing editors are also strongly encouraged to write for the journal, to frame out new lines of inquiry, and to cultivate new authors and writing. Contributing editors have a term length of three years.
Editor at large: Focusing primarily on recruitment, editors at large operate in a capacity similar to the contributing editors, but only edit two to three essays annually and participate in the Essay Prize selection process. This smaller workload is intended to allow editors at large to contribute to the shaping of the journal mainly through the commissioning of new writing. Editors at large have a term length of two years.
Guest editor: The guest editor role is a one-year role, designed for those looking to gain more editorial experience or who wish to pursue a dedicated editorial project over the course of a year. Guest editors have the opportunity to join the editorial team in a longer-term capacity after they complete their guest editorship. More information on the position can be found here.
Application Guidelines
The Avery Review is currently seeking applications for one editor at large and one guest editor.
Applications for each role are due January 7th, 2024. Terms to begin in February.
Should you be interested in any role, please email editors@averyreview.com with the subject line “editor at large” or “guest editor.”
Applications should include:
– Brief CV (two pages maximum)
– Contact information for two potential references
– A cover letter that discusses your particular editorial interests and topics you might want to pursue
Based on the Avery Review’s editorial rates, editors at large can receive up to $1,500 per publishing year. For more information, please see our fee structure below.
Guest editors receive a stipend of $2,500.
Candidates need not be located in the United States and need not have particular educational or professional qualifications. The Avery Review aspires to broaden the diversity of voices in publishing, to support a wide range of perspectives on what constitutes architectural thought, and to encourage writers pursuing underexplored ideas. We welcome applicants who illuminate architecture’s blind spots, who oppose its many complicities, who resist its production of norms and its participation in spatial violence, and who champion a more open, more equal built environment.
*Please note, current GSAPP students are not eligible for these roles. Recent graduates are not eligible as they cannot be paid by the university for any of these roles until 18 months after graduation.
Editorial Rates for contributing editors and editors at large
Editing: $200 per piece
Managing: $1,100 for contributing editor/$600 for editor at large, per year
Recruiting: $100 for every commissioned piece that lands in our pages
Writing: $400 per essay