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Association of Authors' Agents

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United Kingdom
Association of Authors' Agents website
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The association of UK agents. Their website (http://www.agentsassoc.co.uk/index.html) gives a Directory of Members and a code of practice, but no information about the agencies other than their names. 

Association of Authors' Representatives

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United States
Association of Authors' Representatives website
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The website of the American agents’ association (http://www.aar-online.org) offers a list of members, suggested points to raise with an agent who offers to represent you, and some further guidance on the author/agent relationship.

Australian Literary Agents' Association

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Australia
Australian Literary Agents' Association website
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Australian Literary Agents' Association Linked In

Lists some Australian agents and also a guide to Finding an Agent.

Guide to Literary Agents

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United States
Guide to Literary Agents website
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Extremely useful commercial American site (http://literaryagents.org/) which helps you to find an agent. Includes agent news, agent guides and tips for finding an agent.

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11 February 2019 - What's new

February 2019
  • ‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies... I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it.
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The Moth Short Story Prize 2019

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Closing date: 
30 June 2019
Entry: 
Open to any writer over 16 from anywhere in the world Entry fee €15 per story
Prize: 
1st prize €3,000, 2nd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France plus €250 travel stipend and 3rd prize €1,000

This year's judge is Kit de Waal.

The Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. There is a word limit of 5,000 words.

The winners will be announced in September 2019 and all three stories will appear in the autumn issue of the Morh Magazine.  Read more

'Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.'

— Anne Lamott

"Why am I writing this?"

11 February 2019

‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies...

I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it. Sometimes it doesn't go well, but most often, I'll look up and it's time for lunch and I don't know what happened...  Read more