Simon & Schuster – 2026 Publishing Prologue
Simon & Schuster, named among Forbes Magazine's America's Best Mid-Size Employers 2022, is a global leader in general interest publishing. Included among their imprints are Simon & Schuster, Atria Books, Scribner, Saga Press, and Pocket Books. From June 1 – June 5, they are offering a virtual, FREE publishing prologue program for individuals in the graduate/undergraduate classes of 2025 and 2026. This program, structured around two daily virtual sessions (11am–1pm and 2pm–4pm EST), will offer a glimpse into every aspect of the publishing business through lecturers from each of their departments. Applicants must submit a resume and cover letter to their portal, found here. The deadline is ASAP. Applicants accepted to the program will be notified by May 3.
Contemporary Literary Publishing Lab – Writer's Match
The UChicago Contemporary Literary Publishing Lab (CLP) is facilitating a writer's match event! The event matches student writers from across universities based on genre interest. After participants are connected, they develop their own partnership based on their needs and schedules. If you are interested in being paired up with a fellow writer to share your work, give and get feedback, or just make friends with another writer, then fill out the form linked here. The deadline to fill out the form is February 27.
NYU Study Abroad – Writers in Florence & Writers in Paris
NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences offers month-long summer writing retreats in Florence and Paris, open to any applicants currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program. Participants focus on one of three genres—Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, or Poetry—and attend daily workshops and craft seminars. Florence offers Fiction and Poetry, while Paris offers all three. The NYU course credit from these programs may be transferable to other institutions, based on the participant. The Paris program runs from June 22 to July 18, 2026, and the Florence program runs from May 25-June 20; housing and meals are included in the tuition for both. The priority deadline has passed; general applications are due March 1.
Summer School in Italy – Poesiæuropa
Students are invited to apply to attend Poesiæuropa, an interdisciplinary "summer school" held on Isola Polvese, Lake Trasimeno (Italy) offering a reflection on humanistic culture starting out from the perspective of poetry with the aim of reconsidering the value of our humanistic and spiritual traditions and collectively building visions for the future. The 2026 fellowship, which covers food, lodging, and attendance at all conference events, will run for four full days from June 3-6. Programming includes a keynote lecture, seminars, workshops, presentations of fellows' work, and poetry readings. This year's edition–Poesiæuropa's eighth– follows the thematic areas "echoes from the future," "work," and "noise." To apply, please send a curriculum vitae and a 500-word abstract of the academic or artistic work you intend to present to info@spaziohumanities.it by March 2. For more information on Poesiæuropa, the application guidelines, and this year's themes, click here. For questions, please contact Jennifer Scappettone (jscape@uchicago.edu) or Alessandro Ludovico Minnucci (minnucci@uchicago.edu).
WW Norton – Webinar Series
WW Norton is the nation's oldest wholly employee-owned publishing house. Their mission is to publish "books that live." They are holding a four-session webinar series from February through May (February 6, March 6, April 3, May 1), each at 2:00pm CST, wherein editors and marketers from the Norton Literature team will discuss how a degree in English can help applicants achieve careers in college/academic publishing. You can register for the webinars here.
The Seabird Writing Conference – Spring Workshops
The Seabird Writing Conference (SWC), an intercollegiate student writing organization with a chapter at UChicago, is currently soliciting signups for their spring workshop offerings. The workshops will run for 5-10 weeks, and will run virtually on the conference's Discord server. The workshop topics include: Prose, Poetry, Long-Form Prose, Ultra Long-Form Prose, Narrative Design, and the spring segment of a yearlong novel-writing workshop. To sign up for any of these workshops, join the Discord server via their website and fill out this form by March 8 at the latest.
Los Angeles Review of Books – Publishing Workshop
LARB Publishing Workshop prepares Fellows to succeed in careers in the ever-changing, seemingly inaccessible business of publishing. From June 22 to July 24, Workshop Fellows will learn from the industry professionals shaping print and digital publishing today. In addition to participating in lectures and workshops featuring over 60 speakers, Fellows will have the opportunity to join one of two practical tracks dedicated to magazine and book production, and meet one-on-one in office hours with representatives of presses, magazines, and organizations of their choice. The LARB Publishing Workshop is conducted virtually from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. PST. The program is open to undergraduates completing their degree by December 2026, graduate students, those who have recently graduated, and people with relevant experience and interest in entering the publishing industry. Need-based scholarships are available and LARB regularly partners with colleges and universities to provide fellowships for their students to attend. The deadline for workshop applications is March 15. Visit this webpage for more information.
Sourcebooks – Career in Books Webinar Series
Sourcebooks, a publishing house noted among the Most Innovative Companies list of 2024, and Best Workplaces for Innovators list of 2023, offers a free, semiregular webinar series called “A Career In Books”; in this series, Sourcebooks employees across different departments explain how they got into publishing, what they do day-to-day, and what advice they have for prospective publishing careers. There are no upcoming webinars, but the total archive of their previous events can be found here.
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