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Louise Allen-Jones

Contacts
5c Old Town
Clapham
London , SW4 0JT
United Kingdom
tel: 
020 7720 2453
fax: 
020 7498 1818
email: 
laj@bookscout.demon.co.uk
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  • Louise Allen-Jones

Scouts for Econ Ullstein List, Germany; The English Agency, Japan; Bruna, Signet, Signature and de Boekerij `M', The Netherlands; Kinneret-Zmora, Israel; The Film Council, UK.

Heather Schiller

Contacts
Brighton, East Sussex
United Kingdom
fax: 
01273 505477
email: 
heather.schiller@virgin.net
Heather Schiller website
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  • Heather Schiller

Scout for BZZTÔH, The Netherlands; Cappelens, Norway; Piper, Germany; Lindhardt & Ringhof, Denmark.

Folly Marland

Contacts
6 Elmcroft Street

London, E5 0SQ
United Kingdom
tel: 
020 8986 0111
fax: 
020 8986 0111
email: 
fmarland@pobox.com
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  • Folly Marland

Scout for Scherz Verlag, Germany; Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, The Netherlands; Sony Magazines, Japan; Livani, Greece.

Eccles Fisher Associates

Contacts
29 D'Arblay Street

London, W1F 8EP
United Kingdom
tel: 
020 7494 4609
fax: 
020 7494 4611
email: 
catherine@ecclesfisher.com
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Scouts for Doubleday Inc., Broadway Books and Nan A.  Read more

Badcock & Rozycki Literary Scouts

Contacts
1 Old Compton Street

London, W1D 5JA
United Kingdom
tel: 
020 7734 7997
fax: 
020 7734 6886
email: 
june@badcock-rozycki.co.uk
email: 
barbara@badcock-rozycki.co.uk
email: 
claire@badcock-rozycki.co.uk
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Scouts for Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Marion von Schröder Verlag and Diana Verlag, Germany; Unieboek BV and Prometheus/Bert Bakker, The Netherlands; RCS Libri Group, Italy; Editions Jean-Claude Lattès, France; Ediciones Salamandra, Spain; Ellinika Grammata, Greece; Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, Finland; Forum, Sweden; NW Damm & Son A/S, Norway; Egmont Lademann A/S, Denmark; Edda Media, Iceland.<  Read more

Jane Southern

Contacts
11 Russell Avenue

Bedford , BEDS MK40 3TE
United Kingdom
tel: 
01234 400147
fax: 
01234 400146
email: 
jane.southern@ntlworld.com
Jane Southern website
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janesscout
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  • Jane Southern

Scouts for Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Germany; Bertelsmann Club, Germany; The House of Books, The Netherlands; Belfond, Presses de la Cité and France Loisirs, France.

Kathy van Praag

Contacts
53 St John Street

Oxford, OX1 2LQ
United Kingdom
tel: 
01865 556753
fax: 
01865 556753
email: 
kvanpraag@aol.com
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Scout for Rowohlt Verlag, Germany; Distribuidora Record, Brazil.

Koukla Maclehose

Contacts
Arundel House
3 Westbourne Road
London , N7 8AR
United Kingdom
tel: 
020 7607 1336
fax: 
020 7609 7775
email: 
koukla@btpenworld.com
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  • Koukla Maclehose

Scouts for Tammi, Finland; Wählström & Widstrand, Sweden; Pax, Norway; Rosinante, Denmark; Meulenhoff and Arena, The Netherlands; Hanser, Zsolnay, Sans Souci and Nagel & Kimche, Germany; Gallimard and Denoël, France; Einaudi, Italy; Anagrama, Spain; Asa, Portugal; Psichogios, Greece; Keter, Israel.

Rosalind Ramsay

Contacts
195 Lavender Hill

London , SW11 5TB
United Kingdom
tel: 
020 7978 7444
fax: 
020 7924 5455
email: 
ros@rosramsay.com
email: 
saskia@rosramsay.com
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  • Rosalind Ramsay

Scouts for Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Germany; Sperling & Kupfer, Italy; Ambo Anthos, The Netherlands; Norstedts, Sweden; Kadokawa, Japan; Hed Arzi, Israel; Dioptra, Greece.

Van Lear Limited

Contacts
PO Box 21816
Parson's Green
London , SW6 5ZU
United Kingdom
tel: 
020 7610 6165
fax: 
020 7610 6045
email: 
evl@vanlear.co.uk
Van Lear Limited website
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  • Liz Van Lear

Scouts for Droemer Knaur Schneekluth, Germany; Planeta Group, Spain and Latin America; Richters, Sweden; Artist House, Japan; Oceanida, Greece; Dom Quixote, Portugal; il Saggiatore, Italy; Veen Bosch & Keuning, The Netherlands.

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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

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