The Best Literary Agents Seeking Submissions

💼 Agency: Writers House

🌍 Location: New York City, US

🧑‍💻 Website: http://www.writershouse.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Children's Book, Middle Grade, Picture Book, Upmarket Fiction

Previous clients: Hillary Frank, Shreya Gupta, Diana Sudyka, Aja Gabel, Aimee Sicuro

💼 Agency: Book Cents Literary Agency

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: https://www.bookcentsliteraryagency.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email.

Genres: Fiction, Commercial Fiction, Cookbook, Feminism, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Women's Fiction, Young Adult, Nonfiction, Travel

Previous clients: Kerrigan Byrne, Lisa Marie Rice, Anita Clenney, Sherelle Green, Yahrah St. John, A.C. Arthur.

💼 Agency: Speilburg Literary Agency

🌍 Location: Louisville, US

🧑‍💻 Website: http://speilburgliterary.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through online form

Genres: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller, BIPOC, Crime Fiction, Horror, Graphic Novel, Upmarket Fiction

Previous clients: Melissa Lenhardt, Jennifer Mason-Black, Josh Noel, Erin Osmon

💼 Agency: Calligraph Literary Agency

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: https://www.calligraphlit.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Biography, History

Previous clients: Frances Fitzgerald, Norman Mailer, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Nigel Hamilton

💼 Agency: Looking Glass Literary & Media

🌍 Location: San Diego, US

🧑‍💻 Website: https://www.lookingglasslit.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through QueryManager

Genres: Fiction, Commercial Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Diverse Fiction, LGBTQ, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Horror, New Adult, Thriller, Upmarket Fiction

Previous clients: Candice Iloh, Mary McCoy, Axie Oh, Dahlia Adler, Anna Meriano, Kristi Wientge

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💼 Agency: DeFiore and Company

🌍 Location: New York City, US

🧑‍💻 Website: http://www.defliterary.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Humor

Previous clients: William Alexander, John Grogan, Peter Brannen, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Yumi Sakugawa, Saul Austerlitz, Nathalia Holt, Melissa L. Sevigny

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💼 Agency: WME Books

🌍 Location: Los Angeles, US

🧑‍💻 Website: https://wmebookdepartment.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Thriller, Mystery

Previous clients: Quentin Tarantino, Tom Clancy, Joy Fielding, Roxane van Iperen, Amy Sedaris, Joy Fielding, Astrid Holleeder, Heike Faller

💼 Agency: Aragi Inc.

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: http://www.aragi.net

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Commercial Fiction, Short Story

Previous clients: Jonathan Safran Foer, Nathan Englander, Edwidge Danticat, Colson Whitehead, Junot Diaz

💼 Agency: William Clark Associates

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: http://wmclark.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through online form

Genres: Nonfiction, Fiction, Biography, Business Book, Cookbook, Graphic Novel, History, Humor, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Politics, Spirituality, Travel, Upmarket Fiction

Previous clients: Kim Adelman, Jake Adelstein, Cornelia Walker Bailey, James Barrat, Alexa Hampton

💼 Agency: Westwood Creative Artists

🌍 Location: Toronto, CA

🧑‍💻 Website: https://wcaltd.com/bridgette-kam/

📣 Preferred contact method: Send queries to submissions@wcaltd.com, specifying agent in the subject line.

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Upmarket Fiction

Previous clients: Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, Dennis Bock, Elaine Chen, Kate Jenks Landry, Anna Ling Kaye, Maggie Knaus, Judy Ann Sadler, Linda Trinh, Zenia Wadhwani