A big thank you to Hinton’s first two interns!
By Maggie Block
I cannot begin to express how grateful I am to Hinton’s interns Nova Ross and Rose Lindsey! Thanks to your interest in working with us, the Hinton team has doubled in size! I went from frantically trying and get more done than any one human could achieve, to being a leader of a highly capable team!
Hinton would not have been able to function the last few months without the hours of time you spent reading through the piles of submissions for book publication, and for publication in Hinton’s Speak the Sojourner . Nova I want to say a big thank you for seeing the incredible potential of The Sylvan Hotel, which Hinton has just signed and expects to publish in 2025. Rose, I want to thank you for bringing your viewpoint and skill set to help me, and readers of this newsletter, to understand the craft of literary writing and poetry.
Before joining Marcus to make Hinton a reality, I had worked as a youth librarian for 9 years. I saw first hand how to lack of diversity effected my young readers in being able to see themselves in the books that were available to them.
Being able to run Hinton’s internship program has felt like a meaningful continuation of my youth work. Having young people, of diverse experiences, choosing what literature gets considered for publication, is a powerful way to further our mission to publish authors who belong to communities that have been historically underinvited to publish their work.
And our intern’s work has gone beyond being our (oh so deeply necessary) readers. You have seen their writing in this newsletter. They have tabled at events. They have promoted and recruited submissions for Speak the Sojourner. And, they have both worked tireless on independent intern projects.
Nova’s internship project will take place this upcoming Thursday! Voices of the Pacific is at 6:30pm, at the Columbia City Galleries, Thursday August 29. Which will be a celebration of Pacific Islander writers and story tellers, with live readings, and reflections from our very own Nova Ross on how underrepresented Pacific islanders are in the publishing landscape!
Rose’s event Queer Poetics, will take place on September 23, at Common Area Maintenance (and don’t worry, we’ll being telling you more about that event in our next newsletter 😉).