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Children's Specialist

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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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

Conville & Walsh Ltd

Contacts
2 Ganton Street

London, W1F 7QL
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7287 3030
fax: 
020-7287 4545
email: 
(firstname)@convilleandwalsh.com
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Directors

  • Clare Conville
  • Patrick Walsh

All genres of fiction and non-fiction (generally upmarket to mass market), children's books. No poetry, screenplays or short stories. No reading fee. Picture books, fiction for 5-8 and 9-12 year-olds, teenage fiction, series fiction and film/TV tie-ins (home 15%, overseas 20%). Also handles adult literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction.  Read more

London Independent Books

Contacts
26 Chalcot Crescent

London, NW1 8YD
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7706 0486
fax: 
020-7724 3122
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Proprietor

  • Carolyn Whitaker

Specialises in commercial, fantasy and teenage fiction, show business, travel. Full-length MSS (home 15%, overseas 20%).
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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

Information

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

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