2026 Spring Internship - Editorial, Harper Voyager (NYC)

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HarperCollins Publishers

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Posted 6 months ago

Internship

New York, New York

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Smart Summary

The intern will support a fiction editor at Harper Voyager by learning about the editorial process and assisting with various editorial tasks. Responsibilities include reading and evaluating manuscripts, writing reports, and preparing manuscripts for production.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Job Description

Overview

The William Morrow Group, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, is seeking an Editorial Intern. The Morrow Group is comprised of several imprints – flagship imprint William Morrow, as well as Dey Street Books, Mariner Books, Harvest, Harper Voyager, and Avon Books – and publishes a range of titles across most publishing categories, from bestselling mysteries and romances to prize-winning literary fiction, cookbooks, politics, and pop culture titles. In this role, you will be supporting a fiction Editor at Harper Voyager.

Responsibilities

  • Learns about the editorial process.
  • Reads and evaluates proposals and manuscripts under consideration, writes reader’s reports, researches author track records and comparison titles, and drafts rejection letters.
  • Researches trends in editorial content, marketing approaches, and publishing trends as needed.
  • Assists with writing jacket copy.
  • Assists with author/agent communications.
  • Prepares manuscripts for production.
  • Explore Voyager backlist and help update metadata.
  • Supports editors through administrative tasks such as mailings, requesting marketing materials, and other in-office duties.

Qualifications

  • Candidates who are available to work in a full-time capacity in 2026 or 2027 are eligible for this internship; open to rising seniors, recent graduates, master’s students, or entry level candidates with up to two years of work experience. 
  • Candidates must be available to work 21 hours per week across 3 or 4 days, from February 9 to April 17, 2026, at the location specified in the job description. This internship is compensated at a rate of $18 per hour.
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. 
  • A resume and cover letter are required; applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Please address your cover letter to “Hiring Team.”   
  • Ideal candidates are either currently enrolled in or have recently graduated from an undergraduate or master’s program.
  • A passion for books is highly valued! 
  • Eager to learn about the publishing business
  • Interest in science fiction and fantasy a plus!

HarperCollins Publishers is a company full of people who are passionate about books.  When you apply for a position, we want to know why you want to work here, and why you are interested in the job. That’s why cover letters are strongly preferred.

HarperCollins Publishers is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at TalentManagement@harpercollins.com. Note: we will only respond to accommodation requests. 

The deadline to apply is October 10, 2025 by 11:59 pm ET.

HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.

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HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 15 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp. The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.

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