Here are six British agents actively seeking writers. You don't have to be British to submit to these agents. Most British agencies accept writers from just about anywhere. They also maintain international contacts through sub-agents, as well as offices in New York and elsewhere. So feel free to query.
Always check the agency website before submitting. Agents may switch agencies or close their lists, and submission requirements can change.
If these agents don't suit your needs, you can find a comprehensive list of new and established agents seeking clients here: Agents Seeking Clients..
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Allison DeFrees of C+W
Originally from Los Angeles, Allison was a contracts and immigration lawyer in the US before moving into the arts. In addition to owning her own law firm in Texas and New York, Allison worked for Harper’s magazine and Facts on File as an intern and editor, and was active on the poetry circuit in NYC. She has for many years worked as an actor, playwright and puppeteer, most recently working with the Victoria & Albert Museum, Wigtown Book Festival, Curious Arts Festival and Edinburgh Book Festival on commissioned puppet musicals. Allison gained a degree with honours in English Literature from the University of Virginia, and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the former Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Poetry Translation Centre.
What she is seeking: She is most interested in poetry and literary fiction, but also loves literary non-fiction.
How to submit: Send your query to allison@cwagency.co.uk Please email the first three chapters (or about 50 pages) and a synopsis for fiction. For nonfiction send a thirty-page proposal. (There are no instructions on the site for poetry.)
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Kerry Glencorse of Susanna Lea Associates
Kerry Glencorse studied Classics at Oxford University and Political Science at Sciences Po in Paris. After two years as a management consultant, she started her publishing career in 2000 at Editions Flammarion before moving to the Paris office of Susanna Lea Associates. In 2007 she moved back to the UK and set up the London office. She handles the agency’s clients in the UK and Australia and has a growing list of her own clients including novelists Alice Adams, Marie Phillips, Louisa Hall, Andrea Carter and Joanna Bolouri and non-fiction writers Tom Service, Caroline Jones and Ted Kessler.
What she is seeking: Literary and upmarket commercial fiction; well-written genre fiction, including crime, thrillers, women’s fiction, and historical. And on the non-fiction side: memoir, narrative non-fiction, popular science, social and cultural history, and cookery.
How to submit: Send query, synopsis and 3 chapters to london@susannalea.com
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Mandy Suhr of Miles Stott Children’s Literary Agency
Mandy Suhr joined MSCLA in 2010 and specialises in picture books. During a long career as editor and publisher, she has launched many now familiar names and has created best-selling picture books for Orchard, Gullane, Campbell, Macmillan and Puffin. As well as her role as an agent, Mandy also consults for several of the bigger publishing houses, creating novelties, picture books and apps.
What she is seeking: Children's fiction.
How to submit: Please send a brief synopsis together with the first three chapters and a short covering letter telling us a little bit about yourself, your writing and your publishing experience (if any). The email address for fiction submissions is fictionsubs@milesstottagency.co.uk
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Hayley Steed of The Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency
Hayley is an Associate Agent, working closely with Madeleine’s clients as well as actively seeking new talent for the agency. She also coordinates the digital rights and Film & TV rights, focusing on book to screen adaptation and scripts written by existing clients.
What she is seeking: Commercial fiction across all genres including smart women’s fiction; contemporary women’s fiction; uplifting love stories; high concept novels; grounded sci-fi; speculative fiction; feminist reads; magical realism; tense crime and thrillers; cross-genre books; 14+ YA; non-fiction focused on sport.
How to submit: Please email your submissions, addressed to a specific agent, to: submissions@madeleinemilburn.com. Put your name and the title of your manuscript in the subject line of the email. Attach a one-page synopsis and the first three chapters of the manuscript. (Submission requirements are fairly extensive for this agency. Please read them HERE.)
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Kate Burke at Northbank Talent Management
Kate moved to agenting in 2013 following a career commissioning and publishing commercial fiction at Headline, Penguin, HarperCollins and latterly as Editorial Director at Century (Random House), where she achieved an excellent track record of publishing bestsellers. At Northbank Kate heads up the market-leading fiction list.
What she is seeking: Commercial and upmarket women’s fiction, historical fiction, and crime, thriller and suspense.
How to submit: Please send a cover letter, synopsis and the first three chapters of your submission as Word or Open Document attachments to fiction@northbanktalent.com.
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Chloe Seager at Northbank Talent Management
Chloe is responsible for the agency’s children’s and young adult book business as well as science fiction and fantasy. Chloe is herself a published author of young adult fiction, with her first novel Editing Emma published by HQ in 2017 and the sequel Friendship Fails of Emma Nash published in 2018.
What she is seeking: All genres of young adult, middle-grade and age 5-8 fiction and non-fiction.
How to submit: Please send a cover letter, synopsis and the first three chapters of your submission as Word or Open Document attachments to childrens@northbanktalent.com.
Always check the agency website before submitting. Agents may switch agencies or close their lists, and submission requirements can change.
If these agents don't suit your needs, you can find a comprehensive list of new and established agents seeking clients here: Agents Seeking Clients..
___________________
Allison DeFrees of C+W
Originally from Los Angeles, Allison was a contracts and immigration lawyer in the US before moving into the arts. In addition to owning her own law firm in Texas and New York, Allison worked for Harper’s magazine and Facts on File as an intern and editor, and was active on the poetry circuit in NYC. She has for many years worked as an actor, playwright and puppeteer, most recently working with the Victoria & Albert Museum, Wigtown Book Festival, Curious Arts Festival and Edinburgh Book Festival on commissioned puppet musicals. Allison gained a degree with honours in English Literature from the University of Virginia, and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the former Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Poetry Translation Centre.
What she is seeking: She is most interested in poetry and literary fiction, but also loves literary non-fiction.
How to submit: Send your query to allison@cwagency.co.uk Please email the first three chapters (or about 50 pages) and a synopsis for fiction. For nonfiction send a thirty-page proposal. (There are no instructions on the site for poetry.)
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Kerry Glencorse of Susanna Lea Associates
Kerry Glencorse studied Classics at Oxford University and Political Science at Sciences Po in Paris. After two years as a management consultant, she started her publishing career in 2000 at Editions Flammarion before moving to the Paris office of Susanna Lea Associates. In 2007 she moved back to the UK and set up the London office. She handles the agency’s clients in the UK and Australia and has a growing list of her own clients including novelists Alice Adams, Marie Phillips, Louisa Hall, Andrea Carter and Joanna Bolouri and non-fiction writers Tom Service, Caroline Jones and Ted Kessler.
What she is seeking: Literary and upmarket commercial fiction; well-written genre fiction, including crime, thrillers, women’s fiction, and historical. And on the non-fiction side: memoir, narrative non-fiction, popular science, social and cultural history, and cookery.
How to submit: Send query, synopsis and 3 chapters to london@susannalea.com
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Mandy Suhr of Miles Stott Children’s Literary Agency
Mandy Suhr joined MSCLA in 2010 and specialises in picture books. During a long career as editor and publisher, she has launched many now familiar names and has created best-selling picture books for Orchard, Gullane, Campbell, Macmillan and Puffin. As well as her role as an agent, Mandy also consults for several of the bigger publishing houses, creating novelties, picture books and apps.
What she is seeking: Children's fiction.
How to submit: Please send a brief synopsis together with the first three chapters and a short covering letter telling us a little bit about yourself, your writing and your publishing experience (if any). The email address for fiction submissions is fictionsubs@milesstottagency.co.uk
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Hayley Steed of The Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency
Hayley is an Associate Agent, working closely with Madeleine’s clients as well as actively seeking new talent for the agency. She also coordinates the digital rights and Film & TV rights, focusing on book to screen adaptation and scripts written by existing clients.
What she is seeking: Commercial fiction across all genres including smart women’s fiction; contemporary women’s fiction; uplifting love stories; high concept novels; grounded sci-fi; speculative fiction; feminist reads; magical realism; tense crime and thrillers; cross-genre books; 14+ YA; non-fiction focused on sport.
How to submit: Please email your submissions, addressed to a specific agent, to: submissions@madeleinemilburn.com. Put your name and the title of your manuscript in the subject line of the email. Attach a one-page synopsis and the first three chapters of the manuscript. (Submission requirements are fairly extensive for this agency. Please read them HERE.)
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Kate Burke at Northbank Talent Management
Kate moved to agenting in 2013 following a career commissioning and publishing commercial fiction at Headline, Penguin, HarperCollins and latterly as Editorial Director at Century (Random House), where she achieved an excellent track record of publishing bestsellers. At Northbank Kate heads up the market-leading fiction list.
What she is seeking: Commercial and upmarket women’s fiction, historical fiction, and crime, thriller and suspense.
How to submit: Please send a cover letter, synopsis and the first three chapters of your submission as Word or Open Document attachments to fiction@northbanktalent.com.
________________________
Chloe Seager at Northbank Talent Management
Chloe is responsible for the agency’s children’s and young adult book business as well as science fiction and fantasy. Chloe is herself a published author of young adult fiction, with her first novel Editing Emma published by HQ in 2017 and the sequel Friendship Fails of Emma Nash published in 2018.
What she is seeking: All genres of young adult, middle-grade and age 5-8 fiction and non-fiction.
How to submit: Please send a cover letter, synopsis and the first three chapters of your submission as Word or Open Document attachments to childrens@northbanktalent.com.
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