Taylor Neverman

During my most recent experience with The Offbeat as their managing editor and copy editor, I ran a small team of 18 to produce an annually published literary journal. My responsibilities included organizing and running the biweekly meetings, delegating the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions to my smaller team of eight using Submittable, reading each submission, recording the final decisions and results on the pieces, and, finally, copyediting the accepted submissions before being sent to publication. I also corresponded with several authors over their accepted pieces in order to edit and finalize their poem or prose pieces before publication.

Due to the fact that The Offbeat possesses such a small team, I was able to have a hand in every part of the publishing process including social media managing, publicity, and overall editing. I was also exposed to the decision-making processes that go with finalizing design elements, such as layout and cover art, ensuring the production schedule is followed, and how to handle situations that inevitably come about in the last weeks before publication, such as authors not responding and dispute between edits.