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ADVERTISING
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EDITORIAL & BUSINESS OFFICE
Venus Zine
2000 N. Racine, Suite 3400
Chicago, IL 60614
phone: 773.327.9790
fax: 773.296.6103

DISTRIBUTION
Venus Zine is carried in independent record stores and newsstands as well as such chain retailers as Borders, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Hudson News, Universal News, Chapters.Indigo, Hastings, and Waldenbooks.

Venus Zine is printed in the USA. Venus Zine newsstand circulation through Disticor Magazine Distribution Services. For more information, call Dave Kasza at 905.619.6565, fax 905.619.2903, or e-mail dkasza [at] disticor.com. Venus Zine distributors include Armadillo, Benjamin News, Carrot Top, Chas Levy, Choke, Clark Worldwide, Disticor, Doormouse, Emma Marian, Hudson News, Ingram, IPD, Kent News, Last Gasp, Media Solutions, Milligan News, Newborn Enterprises, Newbury Comics, Newsways, Revolver, Small Changes, Stickfigure, Total Circulation, and Ubiquity.

PUBLISHERS
Venus Zine is published by Venus Media LLC
Anne Brindle
e-mail: anne [at] venuszine.com
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Marci Sepulveda
e-mail: marci [at] venuszine.com

Subscriptions Manager
Eve Chen
e-mail: eve [at] venuszine.com

Marketing Coordinator
Kelly Mellott
e-mail: kelly [at] venuszine.com

VENUSZINE.COM STAFF

Venuszine.com Music Features Editor
Sheba White
e-mail: sheba [at] venuszine.com

Venuszine.com Music Reviews Editor
K Tighe
e-mail: tighe [at] venuszine.com

Venuszine.com Concert Reviews Editor
Laura Leebove
e-mail: laura [at] venuszine.com

Venuszine.com DIY & Arts Editor
Lauren Johnson
e-mail: lauren [at] venuszine.com

Venuszine.com Columnist
Jenny Hart
e-mail: askjenny [at] sublimestitching.com

VENUS ZINE MAGAZINE STAFF

Editor & Founder
Amy Schroeder
e-mail: amy [at] venuszine.com

Art Director
Denise Gibson
e-mail: denise [at] venuszine.com

Associate Art Director
Liz Korutz
e-mail: liz [at] venuszine.com

Music Reviews (Sounds) Editor for Venus Zine and venuszine.com
K. Tighe
e-mail: tighe [at] venuszine.com

DIY Editor
Justina Blakeney
e-mail: justina [at] venuszine.com

Up Front Editor
Amy Westervelt
e-mail: amyw [at] venuszine.com

Reads Editor
Ling Ma
e-mail: ling [at] venuszine.com

Fashion Editor
Constanze Lyndsay Han
e-mail: constanze [at] venuszine.com

DIY Section Photo Editor
Jen Ng
e-mail: jen [at] venuszine.com

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INTERN FOR VENUS ZINE
Interns must be at least 18 years of age and able to commit to a minimum three-month internship. In general, interns work a minimum of one day per week and a maximum of three days. Internships are unpaid but are an excellent way to gain professional, hands-on experience.

Editorial Internship
Want to get your hands dirty in the editorial process of putting out an internationally circulated magazine and Web site? Are you a good copy editor, fact-checker, writer, and communicator? Are you organized and eager to learn? If so, you should apply for a Venus Zine editorial internship. The edit internship is best suited for candidates who hope to work as editors or writers. Please send cover letter, resume, and three to five writing samples to Amy Schroeder at amy [at] venuszine.com.

Promotions & Business Internship
This internship is ideal for marketing, business, and music management majors. If you're interested in learning more about the business side of the magazine ó which involves marketing, advertising sales, business development, events, sponsorships, and Web communication ó get in touch with Eve Chen at eve [at] venuszine.com. Please submit your resume and cover letter. The internship involves data entry, events coordination, research, and Web site development. Applicants must be Web savvy, knowledgeable of Excel, and comfortable talking on the phone and in public.

Design & Photography Internship
Do you know the difference between Helvetica and Futura? Can you color correct like no other? Interested in both print and Web design? If so, send your resume, cover letter, and samples of your work to Art Director Denise Gibson at denise [at] venuszine.com. Successful candidates must have strong design and typography skills. Must be able to work quickly, thrive under pressure, and take art direction well. Must be highly skilled at InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Web experience preferred.

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SEND YOUR MUSIC TO VENUS ZINE
Several editors are involved in the process of considering music for review in the magazine and venuszine.com. We receive a large number of CDs in the mail, but we do our absolute best to listen to everything we receive. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we can cover everything that we receive. Venus Zine focuses on women in music, but we cover men too. Keep in mind that timeliness is a key factor of our decision-making process. For instance, for our spring 2008 issue of Venus Zine, whose on-sale date is March 1, 2008, we will review albums with release dates between late January 2008 and April 2008. Albums released before late January 2008 will be considered for review on venuszine.com.

Thanks for reading all of that. Let's get started. For coverage consideration in Venus Zine, or venuszine.com please send music (be sure to include your album's release date on your press release) to:
K. Tighe
Venus Zine
2000 N. Racine, suite 3400
Chicago, IL 60614

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CONTRIBUTE TO VENUS ZINE AND VENUSZINE.COM

Are you a talented writer, photographer, illustrator, or videographer? If so, we'd love to work with you.

When contacting Venus Zine editors, be sure to include information about yourself, including your contact information and your writing/photography/etc. experience. Please include applicable samples of your writing work (no poetry or term papers, please). We prefer to view Web site URLs, but attachments work too.

CONTRIBUTE TO VENUSZINE.COM

Music Features
Send samples of interviews in addition to a list of your favorite bands and musicians to Venuszine.com Music Features Editor Sheba White at sheba [at] venuszine.com.

Music Reviews
Send samples of album reviews to Venuszine.com Music Reviews Editor K Tighe at tighe [at] venuszine.com. Also include a list of your favorite musicians and bands.

DIY and arts coverage
Contact Lauren Johnson lauren [at] venuszine.com to pitch DIY, literary, visual arts, and film stories. She's particularly interested in clever how-to pieces, cultural trend pieces, and short profiles on crafters, artists, and creative entrepreneurs.

Videographers
Want to document events, concerts, and interviews? If you're an experienced videographer, get in touch with Amy Schroeder at amy [at] venuszine.com. Please send URLs to samples of your work.

CONTRIBUTE TO THE MAGAZINE

Up Front
Venus Zine's Up Front section features scoop on fresh, timely, and intriguing subjects that do not fit into the magazine's other sections. In order to write for the Up Front section, you need to be able to rock the art of writing short ó section word counts are usually 75 to 250. Examples of previously published writeups include the Modern Garage Movement, the trend of young women getting into the sport of shooting, and the death of Punk Planet magazine. In addition to Up Front's blurb pieces, the section features regular columns such as ìScene & Unheardî (which profiles music scenes around the world), ìRecord Shopping With [insert band name here],î and ìDown To Businessî (which profiles female-owned businesses). Contact Up Front Editor Amy Westervelt at amyw [at] venuszine.com.

Essays
For this section, we are seeking personal narratives (written in first-person voice) about experiences that have changed your life; humor pieces about your job/relationship/friendship/travel experience/you name it; political/social/cultural observations that make you happy or piss you off. This is an open submissions section; please e-mail your submission as a Word document or pasted into the body of an e-mail. Word count: 800 to 1,600. Please e-mail to Amy Schroeder at amy [at] venuszine.com.

Arteest
If you are interested in profiling artists or covering other art topics such as interesting exhibits, museums, and arts resources, please send story ideas to Amy Schroeder at amy [at] venuszine.com.

Penus
We cover cool dudes in this section. We're seeking short profiles on musicians, actors, comedians, writers, etc. We also publish the occasional book/album/film/whatever review, and we're always open to creative concept pieces. E-mail Amy Schroeder at amy [at] venuszine.com.

Music Features
Do you know a helluva lot about music? Are you a good interviewer (i.e., you don't ask the same-old same-old questions such as ìWhat are your influences?î and ìWhat's your favorite color?î)? If so, get in touch with Amy Schroeder at amy [at] venuszine.com.

Film
If you have experience writing about film and TV and wish to review films or profile actors and directors, please get in touch with Amy Schroeder at amy [at] venuszine.com. Please submit developed story ideas. We appreciate that you take the time to do the legwork of setting up interviews with actors before getting in touch with us.

Reads
The Reads section features book reviews, author profiles, and our regular &slqou;Mad Lit&srquo; column, in which authors fill out a mad lib-style Q&A about their favorite books. If you know your lit, get in touch with Reads Editor Ling Ma at ling [at] venuszine.com.

DIY
Starting with the fall 2007 issue of Venus Zine, the DIY section will have a special theme for each issue. In some cases, we will announce the theme in advance (we'll either promote the topic in the magazine or on our Web site), but in some cases it will be a surprise. Unsolicited submissions are welcome, and we do our best to read and respond to submissions within two to six weeks of receiving them. If you are a solid writer or crafter interested in writing how-to pieces or short profiles or blurbs about DIY artists and trends, send your writing samples and story ideas to DIY Editor Justina Blakeney at justina [at] venuszine.com.

Fashion
Our fashion editor, Constanze Han, sets up all of our fashion shoots, but if you're interested in writing brief profiles of edgy and up-and-coming fashion designers, please e-mail your ideas and samples of your writing to Amy Schroeder at amy [at] venuszine.com.

Sounds (music reviews)
If you are interested in writing music reviews, please e-mail two samples of your criticism to the music reviews editor, K. Tighe, at tighe [at] venuszine.com.

Illustrations & Photography
Please send samples (jpegs or URLs) of illustrations and photography via e-mail to Art Director Denise Gibson at denise [at] venuszine.com. Please do not send portfolios via mail. We cannot return unsolicited materials. If you wish to send a postcard, please mail to:
Denise Gibson
Venus Zine
2000 N. Racine, suite 3400
Chicago, IL 60614