Penguin Random House Paid Mentorship Program Virtual Info Session
Penguin Random House Paid Mentorship Program Virtual Info Session
UMD is proud to partner with Penguin Random House publishers to offer a competitive six-month PRH Mentorship Program starting in Fall 2025! Learn more about this program as well as careers in publishing. The upcoming virtual session will include information on how to best prepare for the mentorship competition (taking place in the early fall 2025 semester). This program is open to matriculating U.S. students graduating in December 2025 and beyond.
Background:
Penguin Random House is the international home to more than 300 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints. Their mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone. They believe that books, and the stories and ideas they hold, have the unique capacity to connect us, change us, and carry us toward a better future for generations to come. They're proud to count more than 80 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors as part of the Penguin Random House family.
The Penguin Random House Mentorship Program for Prospective Copy Editors and Proofreaders pairs undergraduate and graduate students with a production editor mentor for a six-month period of learning how books are made. Through one-on-ones, group sessions, and paid projects, mentees sharpen their copyediting and proofreading skills and broaden their knowledge of the bookmaking process. UMD students selected for this program will be paid for work they do on manuscripts by Penguin Random House and will also receive academic internship credit (ARHU489).