English bilingual publications in Poland

Hi, Anyone know some english or bilingual publications from Poland. I know Warsaw Voice, Poland Monthly, Warsaw business Journal, and that's it. Any others? Thanks.

Any particular types / focus?

Interfax news is English, but it is business / financial focused.

There are also a couple of titles that promote Poland in the United Kingdom - I know that some of the editorial is taken care of in Poland.

Are you looking for a job?

New Warsaw Express, both the printed edition and the one I find in my mailbox each Friday

No particular focus, I just discovered the New Warsaw Express today thanks sobieski, I've never heard of Interfax, I'll look it up now. Yeah I'm trying to see if its easier to get your foot in the door at some of these places than in New York, where it's just a constant rat race... My best opportunity would have been with Poland Monthly, they had a good format but obviously no proofreading, as their publications was full of incredible errors. I waited a bit too long to contact them and when I did, I as informed that someone else beat me to it.

Damn.

Interfax is a Russian News Agency, but they have bureaux in Central Europe, including Warsaw. I have a few contacts there, though I doubt that they'd pay to relocate you from NY.

Do you have a background in journalism?

I am a writer, but I focus on a particular aspect of Poland... give me a shout if you need any further advice.

Hey thanks LondonChick. I'm not in New York anymore, I'm right here 'on the grind' in Warsaw, glorying in my budding English-teaching career. I don't have a background in Journalism; I had contacts in New York that gave me opportunities, but these have been put hold until my girlfriend finishes her school.

I was very interested in the local political goings-on while I was in New York, and worked at a Civil Rights organization where I drafted newspaper articles for my boss there who wrote for the New York Post and Daily News; but unfortunately I was officially just an intern (who wore many hats) so I can't boast anything related to Journalism on my resume. That's why I've been looking into proofreading, because I can simply correct any publication that needs correcting, and submit that as proof of my competence (or incompetence.)

But I don't know if they are that open-minded here in Poland. In New York anything could happen if you could just impress the right people, that's how I got that job at the civil rights organization, but I have yet to test the waters here. Do you have any tips, pointers? I appreciate the help thanks!

I am an accidental writer :)

I have been an expert in a particular industry for a couple of years, and ended up having a lot of my articles on the subject published. I then grew my scope - I now write for various types of publication in the UK and Poland... mainly travel, lifestyle and also gay issues.

My best advice is "if you don't ask, you don't get". Cold call a couple of editors - you never know, they might just have a gap for you. Don't worry if they don't... you might hear from them a couple of months down the road.

I'm waiting until I have a writer's itch, so I can knock of a few submissions to send to various publications, and see what they do with it. If it doesn't bore you write a bit about how you got into it 'by accident', i'd like to know these things happen. At the civil rights organization I worked at we also dealt with gay issues, we were inclusionists so we made a big fuss about this gay only high school that was opening up. Ah I miss those hectic days... thanks for the tips!

Get in touch with the Warsaw Insider, they are desperate for writers. When you see what they pay (less than half what they did five years ago), you'll understand why.

The problem with writing in Poland is that the pay is fairly bad and a lot of the writers think that that gives them the right to either produce self-indulgent drivel or just copy other people's work. Or do both. When I helped edit a magazine here (now shut down because they never bothered to have a sales team), we had to fire two writers because they were copying texts. Even worse, they were doing it from guides to Warsaw!