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The Literary Studio is a freelance-powered editorial and publishing consultancy, offering editorial services to the large and dynamic pre-publication market across the English-language world.
The Literary Studio started as Daniel Goldsmith Associates, a sole endeavour gradually evolved into a collective of specialist freelancer editors.
In essence, we are a UK-based team of freelance readers, editors, proof-readers, typesetters and cover designers, working on fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature.
Our central focus is on delivering an unmatched editorial experience to our clients.
This means that the experience of every client drives everything we do at the Studio.
The editorial service was founded in 2007 by Lorena Goldsmith, a freelance literary editor and translator of middle-grade fiction.
With a legal background gained from King’s College, London, Lorena started working in publishing at the age of eighteen and since then has covered almost every type of in-house role across the publishing spectrum, from editorial assistant to commissioning editor and later to rights and contracts consultant.
The winner of the Financial Times 2024 Women in Leadership essay competition with her entry on why AI is the key to unlocking leadership opportunities for women, Lorena is currently working towards completing an Executive MBA at Henley Business School in South Oxfordshire.
In addition to being a full-service editorial and publishing consultancy, the Literary Studio organises an annual writing competition, the First Novel Prize, open to unpublished and independently published novelists. Launched in 2016, the Prize discovered many extraordinary new writers that went on to be successfully published. Entries are open every year between February and May, when a leading literary agent and a senior commissioning editor choose the winners of the First Prize and the Shortlist Prize.
We are always on the lookout for talented and enthusiastic editors. If you have in-house experience and/or a formal qualification in creative writing or publishing, as well as a passion for nurturing beginning writers, please get in touch.