Internship

826DC Public Engagement and Design Intern

The Public Engagement and Design Intern helps 826DC strengthen our relationships with the local literary scene and the community. They represent 826DC at our onsite magic shop, via their graphic design skills, through our consignment program with local bookstores, and more. It’s an excellent opportunity to experiment with how creativity can fit with a career in nonprofit communications and development.

Internship

826DC Educational Programming Intern

Educational Programming Interns support 826DC’s onsite and offsite writing programs, publishing projects, and resource and curriculum development! You’ll work directly with our students, getting firsthand classroom management experience and finding your stride as an educator. You’ll also get to dive into the backend of our writing programs. That will involve everything from working with student involvement data to proofreading, bookbinding, and more.

Internship

826DC Communications and Development Intern

The Communications and Development Intern helps the community get to know, fall in love with, and support 826DC! You’ll do social media and marketing work, dive into development and fundraising, get professional event planning experience, analyze how the community engages with 826DC, and more.

Contractor

Photographers

We hire photographers to take author portraits for our Young Authors’ Book Project and for other projects as needed.

Contractor

Guest Teaching Artists

We bring in guest teaching artists to connect with 826DC’s young writers. Teaching artists—adults in fields from writing to visual art to rocket science and more—work with our program managers to design and lead sessions within our writing residencies in schools and at our writing center.

Contractor

Illustrators

We hire illustrators to bring our material to life! These projects are generally cover illustrations and/or spot illustrations for student-written books and other student publications. 

Contractor

Graphic Designers