2027 Summer Internship- Avon Editorial (NYC)
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HarperCollins Publishers
New York, NY, US
Summary
The intern will support the editorial team by evaluating manuscripts, writing reader reports, and drafting rejection letters. Additionally, they will assist with administrative tasks, jacket copy writing, and preparing manuscripts for production.
Job Description
Overview
The Avon Group, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, is seeking an Editorial Intern. The Avon Group is comprised of several imprints including Harper Voyager and Avon Books – which publish a range of genre fiction titles across the romance, women’s fiction, sci fi, and fantasy spaces. In this role, you will be supporting the Romance and Science Fiction and Fantasy Team at Avon.
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.
- Supports editors through administrative tasks such as mailings, requesting marketing materials, and other in-office duties.
Qualifications
- Candidates must be available to work in our NYC office from Monday – Thursday for a total of 28 hours per week, from June 7 – August 12, 2027. Compensation for this internship is $18 per hour.
- Candidates who are available to work in a full-time capacity in 2027 or 2028 are eligible for this internship; open to rising seniors, recent graduates, master’s students, or entry level candidates with up to 1 year of work experience.
- 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 Romance Novels and Fantasy a plus HarperCollins Publishers is a company full of people who are passionate about books.
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 [email protected]. Note: we will only respond to accommodation requests.
The deadline to apply is October 1, 2026 by 11:59 pm ET.
HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.
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.
Founded
1817
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Book and Periodical Publishing
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
New York, New York
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.
Founded
1817
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Book and Periodical Publishing
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
New York, New York
