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CookeMcDermid

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1105 - 320 Front St W

Toronto, Ontario M5V 3B6
Canada
tel: 
647-788 4016
email: 
admin@cookemcdermid.com
CookeMcDermid website
Twitter: 
@cookemcdermid
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Personnel: 

Proprietors and Lead Agents:

  • Dean Cooke
  • Sally Harding
  • Martha Webb
  • Chris Bucci

 

We do not accept screenplay, stage play, poetry, or picture book queries. We are especially eager to read thrillers, horror, commercial suspense, speculative fiction, upmarket women's fiction, middle grade, YA, literary fiction, research-driven non-fiction, and narrative non-fiction.  Read more

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'Plan like a raven, but write like a fox'

12 May 2025

In The Raven Scholar, the first volume of the Eternal Path trilogy, award-winning historical mystery author Antonia Hodgson masterfully combines epic fantasy and a fair-play whodunit.  Read more

‘All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.'

— Jean Rhys

The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2025

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Closing date: 
6 June 2025
Entry: 
Open to unpublished, unagented children’s writers based anywhere in the world. Entry fee £20
Prize: 
First Prize: a publishing contract with Chicken House with an advance of £10,000

Top prize in children's writing competition is a publishing contract with Chicken House with an advance of £10,000


Chicken House is 'thrilled to announce' the opening of its 2025 writing competition, ran in conjunction with The Times, and with a prize sponsored by TV production company Lime Pictures. The deadline for submissions is 2 June 2025.  Read more