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Association of Authors' Agents

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United Kingdom
Association of Authors' Agents website
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Association of Authors' Agents Linked In

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

Contacts

United States
Association of Authors' Representatives website
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Association of Authors' Representatives Linked In

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

Contacts

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

Contacts

United States
Guide to Literary Agents website
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Guide to Literary Agents Linked In

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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19 August 2019 - What's new

August 2019
  • ‘I was often accused of having an overactive imagination as a child and I was an avid reader. I used to fib to my mum, saying I was going out to play with the other kids and actually having a book in my pocket. I'd built a den on the waste ground at the far end of the housing estate where I grew up and I would hide there and read.
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The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry

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Closing date: 
15 September 2019
Entry: 
Open to unpublished poems from poets from all over the world writing in English £7 for the first poem, then £4 for every subsequent poem
Prize: 
First prize £5,000, second prize £2,000, third prize £1,000

The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry is a major international award for poems embracing ecological themes.

The Prize aims to highlight the role poetry can play in raising awareness, gaining insight, and provoking concern for the ecological imperatives of our time.

First prize is £5,000, second prize is £2,000, and third prize is £1,000.  Read more

'An overactive imagination'

19 August 2019

‘I was often accused of having an overactive imagination as a child and I was an avid reader. I used to fib to my mum, saying I was going out to play with the other kids and actually having a book in my pocket. I'd built a den on the waste ground at the far end of the housing estate where I grew up and I would hide there and read.  Read more

'Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.'

— Stephen King