The Trinity Review 133: Call for Applications

Amidst a world in transition, The Trinity Review begins its 133rd year and seeks out, once again, new voices to come on board its editorial team. This year, we are looking for (a) Associate Editors, (b) Design Editor, and (c) Treasurer. Below are details for each position, and how to apply for them. You are free to apply to as many positions as you’d like. Applications are due Monday, September 21st, and should be sent to trinity.review@gmail.com.

(a) As an Associate Editor, you will be assisting us with the creation of our issues, from reading submissions to providing criticisms during meetings. Your application should consist of: A general statement of interest, your reasons for applying to a literary journal, the skills/experience you have to offer in producing, editing and critiquing creative work, and some commentary/critique on any TWO pieces in this package:

(https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-38U8cWc795ZFNOV0E2NDRNcWM/view) which consist of selections from previous issues. We strongly encourage younger students to apply!

(b) As Design Editor, you will help oversee the digital creation and refinement of our biannual issues alongside our editorial board. Experience with Adobe InDesign, or similar digital design applications, as well as with video editing software, is required. Your application should consist of: A general statement of interest, your reasons for applying, a brief description of your skillset and past experiences in digital design, editing, and videography, and a list of programs/devices you are comfortable using. Please feel free to include a portfolio if you would like!

(c) As Treasurer, you will manage the official bank account of The Trinity Review, keep track of our expenses throughout the year, issue reimbursements to board members for purchases made on behalf of the Review, represent the Review at Finance Committee meetings, and act as the Review’s point of contact for the Trinity College Bursar, Trinity College Meeting (TCM) Auditor, and TCM Treasurer. Experience with accounting and using Excel is required; knowledge of Trinity College governance processes is an asset. Your application should consist of: A general statement of interest, your reasons for applying, your skills/experience in accounting and financial management, and your knowledge of the TCM’s financial processes if you are familiar with them.

Once again, applications are due Monday, September 21st at midnight. Please keep application length to one page. Additionally, applying to any of these positions will not prevent you from submitting your own work to the journal, as submissions are completely anonymous to the editorial board. Please send us a message/e-mail if you have any questions whatsoever!

Best of luck!

On Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd Movement

Dear artists, readers, contributors and community members,

We at the Trinity Review have been aware of everything that has unfolded over the last week and a half, and we have been devastated by the events occurring in Canada and the United States, as both individuals and as a team. We are sorry to be releasing a statement so late. The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and countless other black individuals throughout the long history of systemic oppression in North America were unspeakable tragedies. We stand in solidarity with protesters around the world and with our peers at Trinity College and the University of Toronto who are demanding justice for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. We thank the Trinity community for holding us accountable and we hope that we are able to contribute our part to the conversation.

We recognize that as a very old institution at Trinity, our publications have certainly featured a disproportionate number of elitist contributors. In recent years, the Trinity Review has reached out to artists around the world for literary and artistic submissions, and has created stronger publications year by year as a result of this diversity of voices. It goes without saying that the role of politics in art, and that of art in politics, is blurred and constantly fluctuating. We promote our call for submissions to a variety of multicultural clubs around campus, but we recognize that there is more we can do to lift up the voices that have not been adequately heard, and we commit ourselves to such an endeavour in the years to come.

Our inbox at Facebook, Instagram and by email (trinity.review@gmail.com) will be open for constructive dialogue, and we hope that all of us here at Trinity can learn and grow with each other in this tragic and difficult time.

Below are resources that we found helpful in learning and responding to recent events. Please feel free to explore them as well.

Organizations:

• Antiracist Research and Policy Center

• Color of Change

• Equal Justice Initiative 

• NAACP

• RAICES

• Showing Up for Racial Justice

• Black Legal Action Center

• The Bail Project

Books:

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Petitions and Movements

• https://bailproject.org/

• https://blacklivesmatter.com/

• https://justiceforbreonna.org/ (Breonna Taylor)

• https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-regis-korchinski-paquet (Regis Korchinski-Paquet)

• https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-georg… (George Floyd)

• https://www.runwithmaud.com/ (Ahmaud Arbery)

• https://www.change.org/p/black-lives-matter-activists-justi… (Tony McDade)