Our Teen Internship Program provides a unique, hands-on experience in education, publishing, and journalism.
Our internships are designed to engage students in a field they may want to pursue after high school.
Each internship is unpaid. However, participants earn community service hours and can include the intern experience on their college applications and resumes. No prior experience is necessary.
We provide one- or two-day virtual training for our internships. The training is mandatory but we do make exceptions for extenuating circumstances. Please inquire if you are unable to make the training dates.
For Teaching Assistants and The Interview Project, your training will be virtual but your internship will take place in person. Editorial interns can participate virtually.
Applications for 2027 will open sometime in February of 2027. Thank you for your support!
internship opportunities
Positions are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Teaching Assistant*
During this internship, you assist with teaching writing to groups of children in our in-person youth summer programs under the supervision of one of our instructors. During the training, you learn how to design lesson plans based on what you love about writing. You are then given the opportunity to teach throughout the summer.
Limited to 8 participants.
*Note: This is an in-person internship only. All Teaching Assistants should live local to Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Editorial Assistant
During this internship, you assist our program coordinator with a number of editorial projects for our PWN Teen programming. Projects include creating original content for marketing purposes (flyers, social media posts, and more) and for our website (blogs, book recommendations) as well as helping manage our online young adult literary magazine, Bridge Ink. We also invite you to participate in our regular PWN Teen editorial meetings where you can share your ideas to help us develop and expand our teen writing community.
Limited to 10 participants.
The Interview Project
Inspired by “Humans of New York,” this project has you finding and sharing stories that need to be told, ones that will touch the lives of others. During the training, we teach you essential journalism skills, such as interviewing, selecting important details, and writing a compelling narrative. The goal is to provide completed stories to give to the participants and their families. Your finished pieces will also be published in our online young adult literary magazine, Bridge Ink. You can read 2025 stories here, 2024 stories here, 2023 stories here, 2022 stories here, 2021 stories here, 2020 stories here, and 2019 stories here. Interviews can be conducted in person or virtually.
Limited to 8 participants.
*Note: This is an in-person internship only. All participants for The Interview Project should live local to Monmouth County, New Jersey.