BFA Writing students step into professional writing and arts environments—from literary agencies to TV studios to museums—through internships that connect their creative ambitions to workplace experience and material life.
My internship experience at The Daily Show was invaluable because I got to help and experience the work that goes into putting on a live show. As an intern, there is a lot of labor that goes into running the show smoothly, whether it’s checking in audience members, going out on an errand, or answering phones at reception—it’s all needed. There was camaraderie within this internship that I had not experienced before. I left this job a little more confident about my future because the people who work there will take the time to answer your questions.”
Katie Pedernera The Daily Show, 2018
I interned as a production assistant with Bondfire Radio doing social media, the show notes, and all the other intern stuff. The whole time, I got training as an audio producer, which includes handling tech and software. I even started producing a show. I’ve never really been treated like an intern, just another member of the project. If you want a good internship, look for people who want more than an intern.
Gibran Mendez Bondfire Radio, 2018
I couldn’t imagine interning at a more perfect place for me than Saturday Night Live. I was able to be on a live studio set and watch a show be written, produced and performed, all in one day. As an intern with Weekend Update, I’ve felt I served a very vital purpose in making sure the show runs smoothly week to week.
Marisa Pellegrino Saturday Night Live, 2019
Currently, I am the intern for Anne Landsman, a novelist and director, and I am helping her with things pertaining to her current project, a documentary entitled Daughters of the Wind—it showcases two Palestinian girls who stay true to their passion for horses through a decade of political instability, pandemic, and war.
Hadley Uribe Documentary Film Intern to Anne Landsman, 2026
This internship exposed me to the amazing world of book publishing, and helped me realize what I wanted to do for a future career. During my time there I read manuscripts, wrote reading reports, researched authors, scouted for new clients, wrote rejection letters, and learned the importance of the relationships between literary agents and their clients. I really felt like I was a part of the team.
Kelsie Puskas Friedrich Literary Agency, 2019
My work at No, Dear Magazine was a comprehensive look at the day-to-day operations of a non-profit small press, offering a blueprint on how to cultivate a grassroots literary community outside of mainstream publishing. The experience illuminated one of the many paths to being a working artist that felt aligned with my values and ethics. Additionally, I met a lot of inspiring poets, participated in readings, and had a lot of fun at chapbook-making parties!
Erica Amann No, Dear Magazine, 2018
I had the amazing privilege of interning under the independent theater company Theaterlab in Manhattan as a marketing intern. I interviewed various artists under Theaterlab’s new Backstitch artists in residence program, including multidisciplinary movement artist Yoko Murakami, playwright Amy Staats, and theater directors Lita Lofton and Elena Vannoni. I wrote descriptive profiles digging into each artist’s individualized creative process and their plans for developing work in the Theaterlab spaces. As an aspiring playwright/theater maker, cultivating these interviews was incredibly insightful in allowing me to understand the various avenues performance artists, directors, and writers can take in creating meaningful work.
Anna Avent Theaterlab, 2025
In my time at the gallery, I was fully immersed in the Chelsea art scene and had some of the best people-watching opportunities of my life. Since my internship was a digital archiving gig, I spent a lot of time organizing artworks into an online database, scanning drawings, and sorting through my boss’s physical archive. I also wrote many emails, press releases, and proposals for art shows (one was accepted for the 2024 Spring Break show!). My internship was very social, but also allowed me to nerd out on the archival process. All in all, I got to try my hand at curating, which I can’t recommend enough!”
Ella Ferrero AHA Gallery, 2024
In 2019, I was an intern with Lambda Literary’s Writers in Schools Program. Through this internship, I gained indispensable skills vis-à-vis programming, marketing, and non-profit-related archiving. I also honed my ability to produce educational materials for use in classrooms. In the short term, these experiences shaped the classes I took and the professional opportunities I pursued. I took two Museum Education classes to learn more about developing educational materials, worked on independent studies related to alternative forms of education and publishing, and have since remained involved with education- and publishing-related nonprofits in and beyond New York City.
Katie Vogel Lambda Literary, 2019
[Since graduating from Pratt], I’ve been producing commercials and indie film. My current work still involves writing all the time—scripting, copy writing, creative concepting… Having bylines at Vice was a huge resume builder. I got to pitch stories to real-world journalists, and when ideas were rejected it helped me contextualize my thinking and better understand the market. I got to experience office culture at a website and learn office, meeting, and email etiquette, and it lifted the veil of branding and voice.
Anna Langston Vice, 2020
In 2020, I had the opportunity to intern for BUST Magazine, one of the last-standing print magazines of the 1990s’ 3rd Wave Feminist Movement. In this role, I was responsible for pitching and crafting daily articles for their website as well as assisting with day-to-day newsroom operations. I was eventually promoted to Blog Editor, where I took on editing articles, fact-checking, and eventually conducting interviews and writing pieces for print. Since graduating, I have continued as a freelance writer for publications including Women’s Health Magazine, and pursued a Masters of Philosophy in Gender and Women’s Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Aliza Pelto BUST Magazine, 2020
At KraveBeauty, I help maintain the content calendar, which plans out our content over the next month, create content in the form of short-form videos or photos, and copyedit our captions and campaigns. I often schedule posts, create captions, and analyze social media data metrics. We use a lot of different softwares to keep us on track, so I’ve been exposed to a lot of new technologies!
Brooke Miller Content Intern – KraveBeauty, 2026
I always knew I wanted to teach, but I feared it because of the experiences I had as a child in the New York public school system. In my senior year, I volunteered at 826NYC, where I was a lead instructor for two after-school literacy programs, working with elementary school children on reading comprehension and creative writing. Through research, I discovered I could teach at the university level with a BFA in Writing and an MFA in Creative Writing, rather than an MA in Education. Working independently, with check-ins with the internship coordinator, gave me the freedom to reach out when I had questions—it prepared me for the workforce.
