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🚨📣We are thrilled to announce that the revamped Penguin Random House Careers website is now live!  Whether someone is experienced in publishing, a professional looking for a career change, or an early career candidate, the Careers site will steer them in the right direction. A sneak peek into some of the new features: 📕 Ever wondered about industry-specific lingo? We’ve got you covered. Our new Applicant Resources tab offers insight into the hiring process, tips on applying for open roles, and much more!   📗 The Life at PRH tab outlines some of the benefits and perks we offer and highlights how we foster community. You can read stories from our employees, explaining how their varied and unconventional career paths led them to PRH.   📘 A page dedicated to our internship program includes information on the hiring process and timeline, key dates of the program throughout the year, and which business areas we offer internships in. Click the link to browse the site.  #publishing #careers #booklovers 

We were thrilled to celebrate Pride Month at Housing Works Bookstore a few weeks ago with the launch party for this year’s Pride in Your Words Zine! The third edition of our annual zine, created in partnership with the PRH LGBTQ+ Network, features excerpts from queer authors, spotlights on queer book clubs and banned books, an LGBTQ+ reading list, and more. Each zine also comes with an exclusive sticker set celebrating queer stories, commissioned from artists at the queer-owned and -operated High Hopes Tattoo. Attendees at the event were able to pick up free copies of the zine and stickers, make their own zines at our zine-making station, and get a free (real!) tattoo from the artists of High Hopes Tattoo. You can download a free digital copy of the zine and sticker sheet, plus find hundreds of LGBTQ+ book recommendations for Pride Month and year-round at PRH.com/PrideReads! #Pride

Calling book lovers in New York, L.A., or Toronto! Penguin Random House is proud to announce that we’ve partnered with Aesop to bring Queer Libraries to cities across North America. Through Sunday, June 30, visit one of our ephemeral installations or mobile editions to pick up a free book from the library's collection of queer literature. Aesop's team hand-picked classics and contemporary titles such as COMING HOME by Brittney Griner, MEMORY PIECE by Lisa Ko, HORSE BARBIE by Geena Rocero, GIOVANNI’S ROOM by James Baldwin, and more. All books are complimentary (no purchase necessary).     What titles belong in your own queer library? Let us know in the comments! https://lnkd.in/eVTjETWy

Tune into “Books for All: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the Publishing World,” a LinkedIn Live panel event today at 12pm ET hosted by Consciously Unbiased, featuring Keline Adams, Director of DEI, and Kim Shariff, EVP, Strategy for DEI, as panelists!

Calling all font nerds & color theory aficionados! 👀 🎨   Beyond designing book covers, design extends to marketing and promotional materials, including fan favorite merch. See what some of Penguin Random House's design professionals love most about their careers, and tell us in the comments what your dream design job looks like. #booklovers #designers #bookdesign

A warm congratulations to Anika Bukkapatnam, Allison Curletto, Ella Ferrell, Sofia Hernandez, Kellen Hunnicutt, and Amber Shen. These six exceptional public high school seniors have been chosen as winners of the 2024 Penguin Random House Creative Writing Awards. In partnership with We Need Diverse Books, the Creative Writing Awards spotlight writing with a strong, clear voice by high school seniors who are daring and original. This year, more than 1,000 students from nearly 900 high schools across 50 states and two territories entered the competition! The six first-place recipients will receive a $10,000 college scholarship.    Now, you can read the winning submissions yourself here: https://bit.ly/3XgTb1m! And if you have a loved one who might be interested in applying for next year’s awards, be sure to share the PRH Creative Writing Awards with them. They might just be one of our future prize winners. #scholarships #creativewriting

Congratulations to our colleagues at Penguin Random House UK on reaching a major milestone: The Libraries for Primaries campaign launched the 1000th library transformation! 📚 The campaign has provided more than 328,000 primary school children across the UK with access to books—the ambition is now to reach the remaining schools by 2028. Read more in the post below! 🎉

Did you know Penguin Random House is home to 139 Pulitzer Prize recipients? This year, we're so very happy to honor two authors for their 2024 Pulitzer wins: Cristina Rivera Garza and Jayne Anne Phillips! Garza is the author behind the 2024 Memoir or Autobiography Pulitzer winner, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice, "a genre-bending account of the author’s 20-year-old sister, murdered by a former boyfriend, that mixes memoir, feminist investigative journalism and poetic biography stitched together with a determination born of loss." (Pulitzer citation) Phillips is the recipient of the Fiction Pulitzer for her novel Night Watch, “a beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal.” (Pulitzer citation) We are immensely proud of the titles and their deserving authors, and we'd like to extend a happy congratulations to their editors! The dedicated and inimitable work of our editors and each publishing team make these wins possible. #PulitzerPrize #publishing