You’re contemplating an uncomfortable Labor Day weekend in a South Florida homeless shelter with 20 other college journalists from across the country.
You’ll take over the nation’s second-largest homeless newspaper and assemble an entire 24-page issue in 36 hours – starting with a tasty dinner in the shelter on a Saturday night and ending with cold leftovers in the wee hours of a Monday morning. It’s called Will Write for Food, and 2015 will mark our seventh twisted year.
We’ll pay for all your meals and a no-frills hotel room you’ll share with three other WWFFers. (No, you don’t sleep in the shelter, although you’ll spend nearly all your weekend there.) We also pay for some – but not all – of your travel.
In return, you’ll receive no college credit, no internship credit, and no job interviews. And most of your friends and family will call you crazy.
Sounds appealing, doesn’t it?
Is this just for writers?
No, we need photogs and designers, too. And radio, TV, and multimedia geniuses. We prefer two of each, although we haven’t always been able to accomplish that.
How do I apply?
• You must be enrolled as a college student as of Labor Day 2015. Doesn’t matter if it’s at a small private college, a big public university, a community college, or a fly-by-night online school.
• Type up a resume and make sure it doesn’t suck.
• Find links to three of your clips that move you. Doesn’t matter what they’re about. If you’re a reporter, we want to see your favorite stories (print or video). Photographers, your favorite pictures. Designers, your favorite layouts. Write a sentence or two (no more) about what made each clip special to you.
• Write a letter of no more than 500 words. Tell us why you’re willing to sacrifice a holiday weekend. Tell us something about yourself that a resume and a clip can’t.
• Past WWFFers will select the 2015 WWFFers, so be honest in your application. In other words, you’re being judged by people close to your own age. So they’ll know if you’re bullshitting them.
• Email everything to journoterrorist@gmail.com. Deadline to apply is 11:59:59 p.m. EST on Monday, June 1, 2015. But beating deadline reflects well on your chances.
• We’ll email everyone who applied by Monday, June 15. You’ll know then if you’re accepted or an alternate. (We’ll explain the alternate thing to those it applies to.)
Want to know more? Watch this video from WWFF14: http://vimeo.com/105214104