Seeking San Francisco Teen Writers for Online Magazine

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.

Please email us or call 415-826-2114 with your interest, writing experience, contact information and/or any questions.

(Please do not contact us if you’re not a teenager living in San Francisco! Because we meet weekly in the Sunset, this position is for San Francisco High School students only.)