Social Media and Publicity Manager--Indirect Books

Indirect Books seeks a volunteer Social Media Manager to lead marketing and publicity surrounding the launch of our first title, Talbot & The Fall, in Spring 2026!

This is an excellent opportunity to be involved in a young independent press, learn and develop skills in social media management, communications, and marketing, and gain volunteer experience--all while helping to support fearless writing.

To apply, please fill out the Submittable form *or* send an email to indirectbooks@gmail.com, with a resume and a brief (1-2 paragraph) account of why you'd like to take on this position and what makes you a good fit for it. We'd also love to know a couple of your favorite books and writers!

A few more details about the position:

• The role will involve approximately 8-10 hours per week, flexibly arranged.
•  We're looking for someone who can create engaging, eye-catching posts that fit the established brand and aesthetic of Indirect Books and our sister journal, L'Esprit Literary Review.
• We're primarily active on Instagram and Bluesky. We still have a Twitter account, although we don't use it as much anymore. We also have a very new YouTube channel and a growing Substack.
• You'd be working closely with the editorial team and would be involved on the ground floor of our novel launch, helping to shape the publicity campaign and get the book in the hands of readers from all walks of life.
• Although more acutely we're gearing up for the launch of Talbot, we hope that whoever takes on this role will be with us beyond Summer 2026, and, ideally, grow with us.

Who we're looking for:

• A highly motivated, organized, and dedicated self-starter with extensive familiarity with social media platforms, first and foremost Instagram. 
• A reader and lover of books--a fan of Modernism is a plus!
• Someone who can bring a dedicated mindset and work ethic. We are all volunteers at Indirect and L'Esprit, and do what we do for the love of literature. Whoever takes on this role will be integral to our day-to-day operations and needs to treat the position with that level of seriousness.
• A passion for championing fearless writing and expanding the opportunities for writers to reach the world. Someone who wants to grow with a young, upstart, maverick press that has an abundance of exciting developments on the horizon.

A bit more about Indirect and L'Esprit:

Indirect Books is a publisher of risk-adept literature in the revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We seek to champion fearless books that operate beyond marketplace convention, celebrating the art and craft of literature as form.

We are an entirely independent operation, run on a volunteer basis by a staff who are creative writers themselves and prioritize editorial-aesthetic vision over marketability. Our foundational raison d’être is to help bring urgent literature of the highest artistic value into being, and infuse it into the world.

While we eschew the conventions of the marketplace in building our list, we place the utmost work into promoting our projects and authors, promoting books at events such as the AWP conference and in-person readings. The network and literary community we’ve established through L’Esprit aids us in getting our books into stores and into the hands of readers and reviewers around the world.

Indirect is a sister publication of L’Esprit Literary Review. L’Esprit was founded in February 2022, the centenary month of the publication of Ulysses. The journal was thus born in celebration of the literary revolution of consciousness represented by High Modernism, and seeks to publish work in that spirit.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Find out much more about the press at indirectbooks.org and the journal at lespritliteraryreview.org.

We look forward to hearing from you!