Barely paid, but roundly educated: Taddle Creek offers unusual internship

One of Canada's smaller magazines, the twice-a-year literary Taddle Creek in Toronto, is offering a well-rounded magazine education to one lucky intern.Herewith, how it is described, in part:

More than just a literary magazine internship, Taddle Creek’s program offers a well-rounded education in every area of the magazine industry—from writing, editing, and fact-checking, to design, circulation, and publishing, and more. The successful protégé applicant will be given the opportunity to speak to approximately two dozen industry professionals, representing more than twenty magazines (large, medium, and small), publishing houses, educational institutions, and other organizations. There will be talk of literature, but Taddle Creek stresses: this is not a literary magazine internship. (It is also a more instructional learning experience than a hands-on one, though the magazine will do its best to offer whatever trench experience it can.) And just to prove that any magazine can afford to pay an intern something, there will be a small (i.e., token) honorarium and some lovely gifts.

Its message is that dilettantes need not apply:

If you are dabbling in journalism or the magazine world and trying to figure out if it’s the life for you, do not apply. Taddle Creek is only able to take on one intern at a time and would prefer to see the spot given to someone planning a future in the industry.

The internship's "faculty" includes many names known and well-known in magazines large and small; freelancers, journalism instructors, editors, publishers, circulation experts, book publishers, who have all apparently loaned their names and their expertise to the project.