Our agents represent fiction and non-fiction for all kinds of readers and you can get a feel for each agent’s expertise on their dedicated page. We have all found exciting new writers through our submissions, and we are always on the lookout for a talented writer to work with and help break out. We want to hear from you!
Below is some guidance on what you might want to include in your submission.
We are no longer accepting paper submissions. Instead, we ask you to submit online, by filling in the form that you can click through to at the bottom of this page.
The form will ask you for your contact details and for some information about your work (for example, whether it’s finished or a work in progress). It will then ask you to insert a covering letter (maximum 500 words), a summary of the work (maximum 1,500 words), and the first 10,000 words of your submission. You can either type these directly into the form, or copy and paste them from elsewhere.
Submissions must be the original work of the author and not generated or co-written using artificial intelligence.
What to put in a covering letter
We'd like to know what kind of book you're writing - what genre and market it fits into, and a few lines that give us a sense of your concept and story (keep this brief, we don't need too much detail in your letter). And we'd also like to know a bit about you – your interests, your job, if you’ve been on a creative writing course or had previous publishing experience, if you’ve won or been shortlisted for any writing prizes, or anything else you think is worthwhile to tell us. If you are submitting a non-fiction proposal, let us know if you have a platform or profile that ties in to your work.
What to put in your summary
If you are submitting fiction we don't need (or really want) to know every twist and turn of your plot before we actually read it – your summary should simply expand on the few lines from your covering letter to give us a better sense of plot and characters, and an idea of where the story is going. Definitely don’t feel as though you have to use up all of the 1,500 word limit.