Daisuke S. – Editor

I provide developmental and copy edits, as well as proofreading and factchecking services, for BetterSleep's Meditations and SleepTales.

● Design curriculums for speculative fiction course, novella course, and one-week fiction intensive course
● Provide extensive developmental feedback on students’ manuscripts
● Hold lectures and discussions with students via weekly Zoom meetings, as well as online platforms Thinkific, Discord, and Circle
● Assign readings and writing exercises from assortment of different narrative traditions, genres, and experimental forms
● Facilitate group workshops
● Guide students through process of submitting to literary journals and presses
● Hold regular office hours

● Managed Instagram account

● Attended weekly meetings with editors

● Performed copyediting and fact-checking

● Helped create promotional content, solicit authors, and design layout for Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism anthology

● Contributed to Lookout Books/Ecotone blog

● Solicited authors for publication

● Attended virtual meetings with editors

● Coordinated payments

● Worked alongside editorial team to select pieces for publication

● Wrote book reviews

● Shipped and processed orders for print issues

● Read over submissions and selected pieces for publication

● Attended weekly meetings with editors to discuss

● Performed copyediting and fact-checking

● Helped promote and schedule launch party

● Created lesson plans, designed curriculums for beginner and advanced-level fiction, nonfiction, and poetry courses

● Graded papers and portfolios

● Led workshops

● Met with students via office hours to help them hone their personal craft

Assistant editor for The Anthology: Winthrop University’s Art and Literary Magazine

Worked with the editor-in-chief to direct our team of prose, poetry, art, and photography editors.

Led team-building exercises and meetings, assigned tasks, assisted in hiring process, approved designs and layouts made by the graphic designer

Copyedited all issues before finalization, organized group of volunteers, communicated directly with those who submitted or expressed interest in the publication