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Are you a San Francisco High School student who likes to write? Are

you, or someone you know, a talented teen artist who deserves to be

recognized?

Bamboozled.org, an online magazine written, designed and produced by

San Francisco teens and based out of the Sunset Neighborhood Beacon

Center, is looking for a few rising high school students (9th or 10th

grade preferred) to join our team!

Our website is a mix of personal essays, entertainment reviews,

political commentary, poetry and artwork, with the goal of combining

technology and creativity to combat negative stereotypes about teens.

We also have an interactive message boards and a submissions page

where other youth worldwide can contribute to the site.

Writers have the opportunity to work with an editor, accomplished poet

and writer E.K. Keith, and the articles due are pretty much anything

you'd like to write, except one week you may have a "Truth" article

due, which is anything from fiction, to a rant, to a poem, and the

next may be an "Entertain", which would be a review about a  book,

movie, game or something about "city life." We also are kicking up a

new section on the site soon, called SHIFT, that is a more collective

platform of writing about a particular subject such as Sustainable

Urban Agriculture or Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice.

Position details:

· Attending weekly meetings with the team (at maximum capacity, 10

high school students) from 6 to 8 pm in the Sunset. Currently we meet

every Wednesday night.

· Writing articles, approx 1-2 per month and contributing to other

group projects, like SHIFT, which is to be launched soon.

· Reading and responding to emails (we use an email loop to

communicate between meetings).

· Planning special events & marketing the site - including writing and

distributing occasional press releases & newsletters

· Designing & assembling the BAM quarterly zine, brainstorming new

projects, and curating the Artist of the Month feature

And get this: BAM members get paid to write! Thanks to grants, we're

able to buy food for every meeting and authors are paid a small

stipend every other month.

We are currently looking to fill approx. 5 author spots. Please

contact us by calling the number below or emailing willo@willobot.com

with your interest, writing experience, contact information and/or any

questions.

We look forward to hearing from you!

~Willo

:: willo o'brien ::

:: 415.826.2114 ::

:: youth facilitator ::

:: http://www.bamboozled.org ::

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