Literary agents for literary fiction — page 8
Phrasemill lists literary agents who want literary fiction, based on what they say on their public websites. “literary fiction” is a genre tag; its identifier is literary-fiction. 456 agents currently want it. Agents whose websites say they are closed to submissions are omitted. The quoted evidence for each tag is on the agent's profile. How it works.
Also: find agents by authors and books they mention
Or paste your synopsis into ChatGPT or Claude with this prompt; it can read your whole manuscript.
Agents (176–200 of 456)
She represents adult commercial genre, primarily thrillers, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Anne is looking for: Adult Modern Day Mystery: Contemporary Police Procedural, Professional investigators pref…
The Unter Agency is a full-service boutique agency specializing in quality fiction and nonfiction, with a particular interest in memoir, food/cooking, nature/environment, pop culture, travel/adventure, true crime, sports…
Says: “literary and commercial fiction”
She is primarily looking for upmarket fiction, literary fiction, and narrative nonfiction narrow and deep in scope that might play with unreliable narrators, interrogations of power and violence, reclamations of identity…
Natanya is looking for literary, upmarket, and commercial fiction. She is particularly interested in books that help us understand our world. She’s looking for multicultural voices, psychological thrillers, suspense, boo…
A lover of the bizarre, the profane, the unsettling, the dark, and the darkly funny, he is drawn to writing that occupies a literary uncanny valley and to writers who move the cultural needle through direct confrontation…
For fiction, Jason is primarily interested in science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, suspense, literary fiction, and commercial fiction, all at the middle grade, young adult, or adult levels. For non-fiction, he is intere…
Being an agent allows me to do what I love best: discovering new and original voices, helping debut writers launch their careers and working with already published novelists who might want a change in direction. What I…
Says: “beautifully written literary fiction”
I have my own list of authors writing in the literary fiction, non-fiction and upmarket genre space. Although I consider myself an open-minded reader, my taste tends to lean towards literary and book club fiction. I am…
Based in New York, Shuster represents both fiction and nonfiction. His nonfiction list primarily focuses on current affairs, politics and civil rights, health and wellness, memoir, business, and history. His fiction list…
Based in New York, Gates represents a range of nonfiction, including narrative and expert-driven works, memoir, current affairs, pop culture, as well as literary fiction and children’s books.
Working out of Aevitas’s New York office, von Mehren is interested in narratives in the areas of business, history, memoir, popular culture and science, books that help us live our best lives, literary, book club, and hi…
Janet Silver represents a roster of bestselling and award-winning authors of literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. At Aevitas, Janet represents authors whose fiction and nonfiction are notable for compellin…
Says: “select literary projects”
I am an Associate Agent at Blake Friedmann, building a list of non-fiction and select fiction, as well as assisting Juliet Pickering and Isobel Dixon with their brilliant clients. I like the books I read to reflect, cha…
Says: “commercial literary novels”
Nik is open to queries from writers working in all languages and from translators working from any languages into English. She enjoys literary and upmarket fiction with genre elements or a speculative twist and is looki…
Says: “innovative literary fiction”
Says: “contemporary literary novels that take a familiar story, such as a love story or coming of age drama, and elevate it into the extraordinary through close character study or an unusual framing device”
My list spans modern classics, overlooked gems and national treasures, from novelists, poets and memoirists to gardeners, travellers and philosophers.
Says: “beautifully lyrical literary fiction”
I assist Andrew Gordon and Jessica Woollard and am also starting to build my own list of literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, and poetry. I am looking for bold literary and upmarket fiction that makes me sit up and…
I am building an exciting literary fiction and non-fiction list, and I am also lucky enough to work across DHA managing director Lizzy Kremer’s list of internationally bestselling writers. In terms of fiction, I am look…
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