Sean Bennett – Editor

I work with researchers, thinkers, and writers who are shaping serious ideas for readers across academic, professional, and public spheres.

Most of the people I work with are in a familiar position: their material matters, it’s intellectually rigorous, but they know it needs greater clarity, structure, or narrative coherence in order to do the work they want it to do in the world. My role is to help that thinking come through, without flattening nuance or compromising voice.

I’ve written and copy-edited for organisations including Oxford University Press, ETH Zurich, the Conflict Research Society, and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, and I bring the same care and intellectual precision to independent authors and book-length projects.

Alongside this, I run a large international community of fiction writers (3,000+ members) and host workshops across the UK and Europe, which keeps my editorial work grounded not only in ideas but in craft: pacing, voice, reader attention, and how writing actually lands.

I’m particularly drawn to work in politics, history, conflict research, philosophy, culture, and academia.

Depending on where you are in the process, I offer:

1. Careful copyediting

2. Structural and developmental feedback

3. One-to-one editorial coaching

I’m selective about the projects I take on and work collaboratively to help you produce a final draft that is clear, coherent, and fully your own.