Logic(s) Is Seeking Contributing Editors for a One-Year Fellowship

Logic(s) is seeking contributing editors with expertise in technology—specifically, critical tech writing and editing experience—for a one-year, remote, part-time editorial fellowship. We are interested in candidates with experience as engineers, journalists, technologists or former tech workers, legal scholars, policy experts, activists, organizers, cultural producers, and academics with an interest in technology.

Topics or themes on which we expect to commission new contributions during the next year include (but are not limited to): natural language processing, automated decision systems, supply chains, Indigenous technologies, electronic health records, biometrics, submarine cables, and humanitarian satellite evidence.

Logic(s) defines technology capaciously, rejecting the bifurcation between the digital and the analog; rather, we are interested in how these are enmeshed within larger power dynamics. It is in this context that we solicit and develop stories about the politics within the enactment of technology—from apparatuses used to surveil and contain, and recommendation engines that displace human curation and discovery, to the tools employed to perfect extraction and maximize profit globally. We are an unapologetically Black, Asian, queer publication committed to platforming analysis by people who hail from the communities they write about. Rather than deify individual identity, this approach foregrounds the collective stakes of submissions. We are interested in deepening the understanding of what makes these technologies possible and how they are (re)making (or undoing) the world transnationally and against empire. 

About Logic(s) Magazine

Logic(s) is a queer Black and Asian tech magazine. We publish two times annually in various mediums and creative styles, including reported articles, features, graphic stories, poetry, speculative sci-fi, and fashion. The mission of Logic(s) is to draw in voices and perspectives that remain outside, underexplored, and yet essential to thinking about technology in the changing present.

Fellowship Responsibilities 

  • Commissioning pieces for publication through guidance from the Editor in Chief and Managing Editor.
  • Calibrating essays for the intended audience. This can involve significant changes to a first draft, including a wholesale rewrite.
  • Engaging in developmental editing—i.e., tightening sentence structure so the language is sharp and clear and evaluating a writer’s word choice and syntax to strengthen the tone or emotion of a piece of writing. 
  • Managing the overall pacing and logical flow of a piece.
  • Communicating and ensuring deadlines are met throughout the editorial process.
  • Working with copy editors and fact-checkers as the commissioned piece moves through these processes. 
  • Participating in training—on both the editorial process and selected topics in critical tech—organized by Logic(s). 

Compensation

Contributing editors will be required to solicit and edit two pieces per issue (for a total of 4 pieces across two issues). Additionally, editors will attend up to 24  editorial meetings and trainings across the fellowship year. Fellows who have developmentally edited 4 pieces from pitch to publication and attended all scheduled meetings* will receive  two payments of $4,000 (for a total of $8000 USD for the fellowship year). Payments will be disbursed in April/May and September/October 2025. 

There will be opportunities to solicit and edit additional pieces, depending on capacity, for an additional $2,000 USD.

*If disability, illness or preexisting commitments are a barrier to full attendance, please just let us know and we will work to accommodate you as much as possible.

Benefits

  • Book budget up to $300
  • Participation in seminars, workshops, and short courses on critical tech, editing and transnational politics
  • Columbia University email and library access
  • Opportunity for publication credit in the form of a reputed piece or interview

Application

  • Applications are due November 24, 2024, by 11:59 p.m. 
  • Interviews will occur the week of December 2 
  • Editorial Fellowship begins the week of January 6, 2025 

Apply Now!

Required Materials:

  1. Statement of Interest (no more than 500 words)
  2. Example pitch for Logic(s) that you would bring to the table or support (see our pitch guidelines; 250–500 words)
  3. What topics or themes do you specialize in? (No more than 200 words)
  4. What/who are the specific ideas, topics, and writers you are interested in commissioning? What networks are you part of or already have access to for commissioning pieces? (No more than 200 words)
  5. How much editorial experience do you have? Please specify the duration, type (popular magazine, academic journal, policy report etc.). (No more than 200 words)
  6. What perspectives or works have been influential to you? (No more than 200 words)
  7. CV/Résumé
  8. Examples of relevant writing or editorial work (No more than three)

If you have any questions, please contact us at editors@logicmag.io.