RockPaperPoem Volunteer Opportunities
Website Editor
Primary responsibilities:
- Publish three online journal issues per year, and update website content regularly as needed throughout the year
- Maintain an attractive, easy-to-navigate, and secure RPP journal website
- Configure, update, and troubleshoot WordPress and its associated themes and plugins as needed
Position requires website development and maintenance (webmaster) experience, preferably for an online literary publication. Also requires in-depth knowledge and experience with WordPress.
Digital/Social Media Editor
Primary responsibilities:
- Create and maintain a consistent, appealing, and ongoing social media presence and voice for RPP
- Develop communication and social media content that is clear, engaging, and motivating to readers and potential submitters
- Identify and expand outlets for placement of RPP communications, such as calls for submissions, readings, issue announcements, contests, etc.
Position requires similar experience with one or more literary arts publications/presses, experience with social media management and communication outlets, basic graphic design skills (e.g., Canva).
Interested candidates for either position should contact RPP’s Managing Editor: editors@rockpaperpoem.com
The mission of RockPaperPoem is to publish the finest contemporary poetry available in English in an attractive, easily accessible, online platform for readers in the U.S. and around the world. We seek work from all individuals, especially historically underrepresented voices in poetry communities—BIPOC persons, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, persons of any ability, and individuals of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Our goal is to become a leading U.S. online poetry journal recognized for its high-quality content, attractive design, reader accessibility, and contributor friendliness. We want our publication to be known for promoting a wide variety of poetic styles, diversity in poetic voices, and a welcoming, inclusive community of poets.
RockPaperPoem is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. If you would like to help support us, please click on the button below.
2026 “Best of the Net” Nominations
“Leaning In to the Body’s Failing” – Zoe Boyer
“Зной” – Yev Gelman
“lipstick” – Robin Gow
“A Brief History of Greed” – Diane LeBlanc
“Post Anthropocene” – Dion O’Reilly
“Fuse” – Tori Grant Welhouse
2026 “Pushcart Prize” Nominations
“Okay, Okay”–Zoe Boyer
“Calligraphy with Ants”–Charity Everitt
“Зной” – Yev Gelman
“Rehab”–David Graham
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“Fuse” – Tori Grant Welhouse
