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Advice for Writers

"Annual Report on the Academic Job Market 2009" by Kristin Lane

"Economic Crisis Affects Academic Job Market" by Emily Lu

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Poetry Manuscript: Some Ideas on Creation and Order" by Jeffrey Levine

"Report on the 2005-2006 Academic Job Market" by Kristin Hahn and Caren Scott

"Helping with the Internship Search" by Supriya Bhatnagar

"Preparing for the MLA Interview" by Philip Gerard

"Working in Publishing" by Hope Smith

"Poor Economy Weakens Academic Job Market" by Emily Lu

"The Recession and the Academic Job Market" by Emily Lu

"A Report on the Academic Workplace: Opportunities Decline in 2003–04" by Kirsten Hilgeford

"Annual Report on the Academic Job Market: 2005" by Andrea Quarracino

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Submit an article: The editors of AWP Job List welcome submissions of articles on professional advancement for writers & teachers. Manuscripts should be prepared in the same general format as those for The Writer's Chronicle. Please see the guidelines for submissions for more information.