Penguin Random House Paid Mentorship Program Virtual Info Session
Penguin Random House Paid Mentorship Program Virtual Info Session
UMD is proud to partner with the Penguin Random House to offer a competitive six-month PRH Mentorship Program starting in Fall 2025! Learn more about the mentorship program as well as careers in publishing. The upcoming virtual session will include information on how to best prepare for the mentorship application (due in early fall 2025 semester). This program is open to U.S. students graduating in May 2026 and beyond.
Background:
Penguin Random House is the international home to more than 300 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints. Our mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone. We 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. We’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.
Now in its fourth year, 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 by Penguin Random House and receive academic internship credit.