2027 Summer Internship - Marketing and PR, Harper Celebrate Publishing (Nashville, TN Hybrid)

Nashville, TN (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New Grad1+ years expOther

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the social media and content workflow for HarperCollins internship, driving campaign ideas, writing, media lists, and PR support across book launches.

Develop social content across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
Draft press materials and PR updates
Analyze engagement to inform marketing strategies

Job Description

Responsibilities

Marketing Support - Assist in ideating, designing and creating social media content for book promotions, author events, retail partners and more across the following platforms: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
Update weekly blogs and craft bi-monthly newsletters for major publishing brand.
Write and edit compelling content, including book hooks, ad copy, scripts, etc.
Assist with office mailings, including Goodreads giveaways, ARC (Advance Reader Copy) mailings, and other promotional efforts.
Attend monthly research meetings to identify trends, opportunities, and competitive insights.
Analyze social media engagement to help provide actionable insights to inform marketing and PR strategies.
Collaborate with our Senior Manager of Publicity to draft PR Updates for title roster.
Help craft press kits to support PR campaigns and book launches.
Assist with researching, building and maintaining media lists for book launches and authors.
Facilitate book review mailings to media outlets.

Requirements

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.
Candidates must be available to work 28 hours per week, Monday through Thursday, from June 7 to August 12, 2027. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are mandatory in-office days at our Nashville headquarters, while Mondays and Thursdays are remote workdays.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
Ideal candidates are either currently enrolled in or have recently graduated from an undergraduate or master’s program.
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
Basic knowledge of social media and digital marketing
Strong writing and editing skills with an eye for detail
Excellent communication skills, both interpersonal and written
Team player willing to collaborate
Solid organizational and time-management skills

Preferred

Canva design experience is a PLUS!

HarperCollins Publishers

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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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