… your favourite Sensitivity Reader’s favourite Sensitivity Reader:
With fourteen years of working within the arts & culture sector ranging from book publishing, to running a sensitivity reader (editorial) consultancy, to leading on marketing campaigns and producing live event (i.e. theatre for the British Library), Hamza Jahanzeb is a truly versatile and multi-disciplinary professional who was awarded The Bookseller Rising Star in 2020 and in 2025 published The Rise and Rise of Chappell Roan.
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Over a decade, Hamza has networked in cities: Prague, Beijing, New York and London. With his experience across Big 5 Publishing Houses and smaller indie presses, he has a rolodex of over 2,000 trusted (and verified) editorial experts that can ensure a layer of added assurance to prevent financial, reputational and environmental negligence from Publishers wanting to uphold their duty as purveyors of fine literature.
Hamza wrote about this new Authenticity Reading (Sensitivity Reader) industry in The Society of Authors’
The Author magazine in 2024 with contributions by Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Doughty (author of Apple Tree Yard, Faber) and Jo Callaghan author of (In the Blind of an Eye, Simon & Schuster UK)
Read more about Hamza’s Sensitivity Reading work in the article here: https://societyofauthors.org/2024/07/01/sense-and-sensitivity/
Theatre Reviewer
Hamza has been reviewing theater since being in College, where he reviewed for BargainTheatreland.com. Since then, Hamza’s come into his own publishing Opinion pieces for The Stage and also his own reviews on hamzajahanzeb.substack.com
From West End to Broadway, to Washington D.C. to Edinburgh, Hamza’s astute observations when attending a Press Night has brought forth his writing as a beacon towards his audiences who appreciate his honest views.
Read more about Hamza’s Theatre writing here
Marketing, Speaker & EDI Comms Professional
Recently, Hamza finished working in-house for Academic and Trade Publishing houses, offering a bespoke multi-marketing plans to offer. Some of the highlights of Hamza’s career were to create the assets for Florence Given’s Sunday Times best-selling Women Don’t Owe You Pretty and also the illustrated cookbooks such as Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour and Diana Henry’s cookery titles.
Hamza is also available to book for speaker engagements, having previously spoken at the University of Oxford, University College London (UCL), University of York and University of Kent over the last few years.
Topics of Hamza’s workshops include:
- Routes into Book Publishing
- How to get yourself a Book Deal
- Creative Writing: Is it for me?
Read more about Hamza’s marketing & speaker engagements
here
Editorial Services
Over the last ten years, Hamza has worked with desk editors in-house at Publishing Houses, in order to offer comprehensive copyediting, proofreading and copywriting packages. As someone who started his editorial career as an Editorial Assistant nearly a decade ago, it takes me great pride to work on manuscripts making the most of my training in BSI proof-correction marks.
Not only this, Hamza works with unagented authors (and literary agents) who are in need of an edit and market-led research to make the process of obtaining a literary agent a seamless process.
Read more about Hamza’s editorial credentials here
