Internships and Work Study

826 Seattle Internship and Work Study Program

Our internships and work study opportunities provide valuable, hands-on experience working with a nonprofit organization in the field of education, literary arts, and community service. Internships are unpaid and last a minimum of one semester. Work study positions are staff positions for which you must qualify through your financial aid office.

Intern positions available:

Work study positions available:

We are currently looking for interns for the fall/winter/spring. You can download a .pdf of the job description by clicking any of the job titles above.

To Apply

Please follow the instructions on each job description. All require that you email a resume and letter of interest to teri@826seattle.org expressing your desire to apply for our internship and a few words about your interests or what you are studying.

You may also send these to us at:

826 Seattle
8414 Greenwood Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98103

No phone calls please.

Our current interns and work study students are:

Casey Gwinn, Accounting Assistant, Work Study

Casey spent most of his life in Walla Walla (supposedly the place so nice they named it twice), before escaping to the U of W. Now he can be found wading through the weekly sales receipts in the 826 Seattle office. He hopes to one day be a history teacher, but not the boring monotone kind; the fun, goofy and enlightening kind. In his free time, Casey enjoys losing at both fantasy and real sports and eating tasty meals of his own creation.

Adam Brinson, Design Intern

Adam graduated from Western Washington University in 2009 where he studied graphic design and creative writing. Now, after months of letting said education lie fallow, he is excited to be doing what he loves for an organization he finds thoroughly awesome. If he’s not hanging out around Greenwood, Adam is probably at the School of Visual Concepts, loving on some other local non-profits, searching for the perfect Reuben sandwich, or working at the job that actually pays his bills.

Kate Jenks, Programming Intern

Kate comes to 826 Seattle from the far-away land of Ontario, where she recently graduated from the Master of English in the Field of Creative Writing program at the University of Toronto. When not selling space travel supplies or toiling in her kitchen, she can usually be spotted roaming her adopted city on foot, searching for scrumptious bakeries and perfect coffee. Family and friends aside, her greatest loves are Canadian poetry, children’s literature, and the CBC. Don’t stand too close to her unless you want to be fed!

Melissa Becker, Programming Intern

Missy ditched her dream of writing romance novels to travel west (in a car, not a spaceship) to Western Washington University. When she finished with a creative writing degree in 2007, she traveled south (again by car) where she read stuff, tried not to spill coffee on people, and looked at paint-by-numbers. She is currently studying book publishing at Portland State University, and thinks 826 rules.

Amy Mikel, Programming Intern

Amy’s coolness status rocketed upwards the moment she quit her lifeless corporate job to intern at 826 Seattle. Under the guise of “helping”, she hangs around 826’s summer workshops to re-discover a life lived creatively. In the fall Amy will begin her Master’s of Library and Information Science at the University of Washington, where her skills at sharpening #2 pencils should certainly come in handy.

“No matter what was going on in my day or outside life, I always left 826 feeling recharged and more optimistic about the world. I loved that the work environment is so fun and supportive, and that the greater goal everyone’s working towards—inspiring a love of writing in young authors—is so laudable. “

— Alicia, Programming Intern, 2008-2009