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Skylark Literary Limited

Contacts
19 Parkway

Weybridge, Surrey KT13 9HD
United Kingdom
tel: 
020 8144 7440
email: 
info@skylark-literary.com
Skylark Literary Limited website
Twitter: 
@SkylarkLit
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Directors / Contacts

  • Amber Caravéo
  • Joanna Moult

We represent the very best in Children’s and Young Adult fiction from first chapter books for 5+ years right up to crossover titles for teens/young adults. We do not represent picture books at this time. We are always looking for talented new authors.

Submission guidelines
Please send submissions by email only.   Read more

Raimondi & Campbell Literary Agency Ltd

Contacts
Premier House
12-13 Hatton Garden
London, EC1N 8AN
United Kingdom
tel: 
+44 20 7269 6575
tel: 
+44 7597057989
email: 
raimondi.campbell@gmail.com
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Personnel: 

Director / Contact

  • Valeria Raimondi

Submission guidelines:

All submissions should be made by e-mail, as Word attachments or as PDF file.  Read more

Suzy Jenvey Associates

Contacts

United Kingdom
email: 
sjassociates@hotmail.co.uk
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Personnel: 
  • Suzy Jenvey

Whether you have a great book idea you want to present to a leading publisher, or you are a published writer seeking more verve in your career, I can offer you expert advice to give you the edge.

No unsolicited emails please.

United Authors Ltd

Contacts
11-15 Betterton Street

London, WC2H 9BP
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7470 8886
fax: 
020-7470 8887
email: 
editorial@unitedauthors.co.uk
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Fiction, non-fiction, children's, biography, travel. Full-length MSS (home 12%, overseas 20%), short MSS (12%/20%), film and radio (15%/20%), TV (15%/15%). Will suggest revision.

Authors include Charlotte Bingham, Terence Brady, Peter Willet, and the Estate of John Bingham.

Founded 1998.

Prentice Beaumont

Contacts
1 Park Village East

London, NW1 7PX
United Kingdom
tel: 
0207 387 8637
email: 
info@prenticebeaumont.co.uk
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Partners

  • Kate Prentice
  • Vanessa Beaumont

Founded 2012

No reading fee

Rocking Chair Books Ltd.

Contacts
2 Rudgwick Terrace
St. Stephens Close
London, NW8 6BR
United Kingdom
tel: 
07809 461342
email: 
samar@rockingchairbooks.com
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Personnel: 

Contact

  • Director Samar Hammam

Rocking Chair Books is a literary agency focusing on literary fiction, upmarket commercial, and commercial fiction and general non-fiction for publication around the world. Our motto is a great story is a great story.

No reading fee.

We represent Brian Turner, Zena el Khalil, Lakambini Sitoy, Conflict Relief, Elle Symmonds.


Founded 2011  Read more

Ashley Grayson Literary Agency

Contacts
1342 18th Street

San Pedro, California 90732
United States
tel: 
310-548-4672
fax: 
310-514-1148
email: 
graysonagent@earthlink.net
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Personnel: 

Contact

  • Ashley Grayson
  • Carolyn Grayson

Commercial fiction and literary fiction for adults and children. Handles foreign rights.

We are no longer considering new clients and do not consider submissions.

Clients include Bruce Coville, J.B. Cheany, David Lubar, Christopher Pike.

Established 1976.

Association of Authors' Agents

Juvenilia

Contacts
Avington

Winchester, Hants SO21 1DB
United Kingdom
tel: 
(01962) 779656
fax: 
(01962) 779656
email: 
juvenilia@clara.co.uk
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Full-length MSS for the children's market, fiction and non-fiction (home 10%, overseas from 15%), illustration (10%), performance rights (10%). Short stories only if specifically for picture books, radio or TV. No unsolicited MSS; preliminary letter with sae and full details essential.  Read more

John Hawkins Associates Inc.

Contacts
71 West 23rd Street
Suite 1600
New York, NY 10010
United States
tel: 
212-807-7040
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Personnel: 

Contact

  • President John Hawkins,
  • Vice-President William Reiss,
  • Foreign Rights Moses Cardona,

Other Agents

  • Warren Frazier,
  • Anne Hawkins

Fiction, non-fiction, young adult. Founded 1893.

The Greenhouse Literary Agency

Contacts
11308 Lapham Drive

Oakton , VA 22124
United States
tel: 
703-865-4990
email: 
submissions@greenhouseliterary.com
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Personnel: 

Contact

  • Scott Treimel

Children's fiction from age 5 through to teen/young adult (USA/UK 15%, elsewhere 25%). 

Represents both US and UK authors. 

No picture books or non-fiction. 

No reading fee. Will suggest revision. Contact by email or snail mail. 

Founded 2008.

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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

Information

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