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Morgana Faye

Morgana Faye

Blog Editor
Garden Grove,CA

Summary

Morgana Faye is a determined aspiring editor seeking opportunities to showcase capabilities for the Blog Editor position at River Styx. Morgana is an organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities for various magazines in a timely matter. Despite the main priority being in editing, Morgana is willing to take on added responsibilities in a different position (graphic design) to meet team goals. Ultimately, every day is a learning opportunity to develop skills and confidence, to grow alongside every ambitious projects undertaken.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Graphic Designer (volunteer)

Three Panels Press
07.2024 - Current
  • Created digital image files for use in digital and traditional printing methods.
  • Developed promotional posts:
  • 3 Day Submission Period Reminder
  • Reading Period Start (submission period closed)
  • Poet Highlight (Jordan Ka'E)
  • Reminder to Read Issue One
  • Reminder to Read EIC Blog (Jhazzy Jhane)
  • Completed final touches for first digital issue Triptych

Prose Editor (volunteer)

Iceblink Literary
06.2024 - Current
  • Assessed submissions for issue 7
  • Organized spreadsheets tracking ~150 submissions
  • Communicated frequent updates on status of assignments with EIC

Editorial Intern

Wingless Dreamer
06.2024 - 12.2024
  • Oversaw literary contests as judge
  • Selected and prepared submissions for manuscripts.
  • Pitched content strategies for workshops
  • Proofread, edited and evaluated final copies of manuscripts for official publication
  • Provided concise and constructive editorial feedback to submitters to improve poetry submissions
  • Wrote and created content for various topics and mediums (articles, blogs, and Youtube videos)
  • Researched topics to create accurate and engaging educational content.

Staff Artist (Volunteer)

Vellichor Literary Magazine
04.2024 - Current
  • Made use of materials, such as ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, computer software, paints, and pencils to complete illustrations for issues Ephemerality (2), Gaea (2), and Samsara (2)
  • Participated in creative brainstorming sessions to develop new ideas or improve existing ones
  • Developed art and design concepts.
  • Experimented with variety of styles and techniques to produce unique works of art.

Education

Associate of Arts - Studio Arts

Golden West College
Huntington Beach, CA
08.2019 - 05.2025

Skills

Constructive feedback

Proof-reading

Managing several projects

Time management

Judging literary submissions

Curating manuscripts

Writing a variety of material (blogs, articles, short stories, poetry)

Graphic design

Illustration

Scrapbooking

Word Doc/Google Doc

Affinity/Adobe/GIMP/Fire Alpaca and more

Accomplishments

    Juggled multiple assignments in a timely manner:

    Wingless Dreamer

    - Judged, curated, drafted, and edited manuscript of literary contest Night Worship for official publication

    - Learned to create educational Youtube videos

    Vellichor Literary Magazine

    - Participated in one of the fastest-growing literary magazines (~10k in roughly four months; had joined them in April)

    - Submitted six illustrations for them

    + two for Ephemerality, + two for Gaea and + two for Samsara

    Kindergarten Magazine

    - Wrote a variety of material for their monthly themes

    + June: Obsession (The Shadows of Dark Romance) - article

    + July: Adventure (Dissonance) - short story

    + August: Sin (currently working on the piece) - short story/poem hybrid

    Iceblink Literary

    - Organized a spreadsheet tracking ~158 submissions

    - Reviewed and assessed 48 prose submissions

    Three Panels Press

    - As the only designer (so far), I handled designing content just in my first few weeks of joining the team:

    + Reminders to submit (3 Days Left to Submit) and read issue one: Triptych

    + Call outs to a poet from an interview and EIC's Q&A blog

    + Post updating status of submissions (team reading them over)

    + Designed submission layout for Triptych

    All of this (and more) are volunteer work done within 3-4 months (started working in the lit mag sphere beginning of April)

Software

Affinity

Adobe Creative Cloud

GIMP

Krita

Fire Alpaca

Clip Studio Paint

Microsoft Word Doc

Google Doc

LibreOffice

Inkscape

Interests

Scrapbooking

Curating playlists

Thrift shopping

Soap carving

Writing

Drawing

Graphic design

Gaming

Cleaning/organizing my space

Researching the publishing industry

Timeline

Graphic Designer (volunteer)

Three Panels Press
07.2024 - Current

Prose Editor (volunteer)

Iceblink Literary
06.2024 - Current

Editorial Intern

Wingless Dreamer
06.2024 - 12.2024

Staff Artist (Volunteer)

Vellichor Literary Magazine
04.2024 - Current

Associate of Arts - Studio Arts

Golden West College
08.2019 - 05.2025
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