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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.

A.M. Heath & Co. Ltd

Contacts
6 Warwick Court

London, WC1R 5DJ
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7242 2811
fax: 
020-7242 2711
email: 
enquiries@amheath.com
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Contacts

  • William Hamilton
  • Sara Fisher
  • Victoria Hobbs
  • Euan Thorneycroft
  • Jennifer Custer
  • Sarah Molloy

Full-length MSS. Literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction, children's, performance rights. Also handles adult literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction; 20% of list is for children's market.

Handles picture books, fiction for 5-8 and 9-12 year-olds, teenage fiction, series fiction, film/TV tie-ins and non-fiction.  Read more

Tanja Howarth Literary Agency

Contacts
19 New Row

London, WC2N 4LA
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7240 5553
email: 
tanja.howarth@btinternet.com
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Full-length MSS. General fiction and non-fiction, thrillers, contemporary and historical novels.

No unsolicited MSS, and no submissions by email.

Specialists in handling German translation rights. Represented in the USA by various agents.

Michelle Kass Associates

Contacts
85 Charing Cross Road

London, WC2H 0AA
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7439 1624
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Proprietor

  • Michelle Kass

Represents writers for film. Full-length MSS. Literary fiction and drama scripts for film.

Will suggest revision where appropriate. Works with agents overseas. No reading fee.

Absolutely no unsolicited MSS without a preliminary phone call.

Founded 1991.

Marjacq Scripts Ltd

Contacts
Box 412
19/21 Crawford Street
London, W1H 1PJ
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7935 9499
fax: 
020-7935 9115
email: 
<first name>@marjacq.com
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Contact

  • Diana Beaumont
  • Philip Patterson
  • Imogen Pelham
  • Catherine Pellegrino (Children's specialist)
  • Sandra Sawicka
  • Leah Middleton (film/TV)

All full-length MSS, including commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction, crime, thrillers, commercial, women's fiction, children's, science fiction, history, biography, sport, travel, health. No poetry. Send first 3 chapter

Happy to review new work. Please note they do not represent stage plays or poetry.
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Andrew Lownie Literary Agency

Contacts
36 Great Smith Street

London, SW1P 3BU
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7222 7574
fax: 
020-7222 7576
email: 
lownie@globalnet.co.uk
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Director

  • Andrew Lownie

Full-length MSS. Biography, history, reference, current affairs, and packaging journalists and celebrities for the book market (worldwide 15%).

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Paterson Marsh Ltd

Contacts
50 Albemarle Street

London, W1S 4BD
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7493 4361
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  • Stephanie Ebdon

Book-length MSS; general but with special experience in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, history and education (20% worldwide including sub-agents' commission).

No fiction, articles or short stories except for existing clients. No children's books.

In order to consider your work they require the following material:  Read more

Sinclair-Stevenson

Contacts
3 South Terrace

London, SW7 2TB
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7581 2550
fax: 
020-7581 2550
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Directors

  • Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson

    Founded 1995.

    General full-length MSS  - no children's books.

  • Deborah Sinclair-Stevenson

Founded 1995.

General full-length MSS  - no children's books.

Brandt Hochman Literary Agents Inc.

Contacts
1501 Broadway
Suite 2310
New York, NY 10036
United States
tel: 
212-840-5760
fax: 
212-840-5776
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Contact

  • Carl Brandt

Full-length and short MSS.

British Representative A.M. Heath Co. Ltd

A & B Personal Management Ltd

Contacts
Suite 330, Linen Hall
162-168 Regent Street
London, W1B 5TD
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7434 4262
fax: 
020-7038 3699
email: 
billellis@aandb.co.uk
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Directors

  • RW Ellis
  • R Ellis

Accepts full-length MSS, scripts for T.V and theatre; also novels, fiction and non-fiction. Represents screenwriters. Agents cover film, TV and theatre as well as literature.

Does not welcome unsolicited material but enquiries are accepted in writing.

No reading fee for synopsis, plays or screenplays, but a fee is charged for full-length MSS. Return postage required.  Read more

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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...

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