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Publishers Weekly Calls for Book Reviewers/ How to Apply (Payment: A modest honorarium).

Publishers Weekly, widely known as PW and “the bible of the book business”, has been around for over 145 years. A weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business, they publish over 8500 pre-publication book reviews per year. They presently seek reviewers from diverse communities, to write reviews in one or more of the following categories:

  • Business
  • Essay collections
  • General fiction/Literary fiction/YA fiction (specifically: contemporary and historical African-American, Asian-American, Native-American, and Latinx narratives; LGBTQ stories; and immigrant narratives)
    Health/Fitness
  • Inspirational/Spirituality/Religion (of all types)
  • Mystery/thriller
  • Psychology
  • Romance
  • Science
  • SF/Fantasy/Horror
  • Technology
  • YA nonfiction

Who Should Apply:

  • They want applications from diverse communities.

How to Apply:

  • Send a resume, and
  • A review of a recently published book, approximately 200 words long.
  • The email subject should be “Book Reviewing:”, followed by the categories you would like to write reviews in. Example: “Book Reviewing: Psychology, Romance”.
  • Send your application to reviewers@publishersweekly.com.

Payment:

  • PW pays a modest honorarium.

Good luck.

You can also check The Future Newspaper/ How to Apply (Payment: $1.50 per word).

Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam

Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam writes prose fiction and creative non-fiction. She is the founder of creativewritingnews.com. Her first novella, Finding Love Again was published by Ankara Press. Her second novella, The Heiress' Bodyguard was shortlisted for the Saraba Manuscript Awards. She currently works as content marketer for various online businesses. You can follow her at @cwritingnws.

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