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The Agency (London) Ltd

Contacts
24 Pottery Lane, Holland Park

London, W11 4LZ
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7727 1346
fax: 
020-7727 9037
email: 
info@theagency.co.uk
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Children's Books Executive

  • Hilary Delamere

Film/TV/Theatre Executives

  • Stephen Durbridge
  • Leah Schmidt
  • Bethan Evans
  • Julia Kreitman
  • Norman North
  • Katie Haines
  • Faye Webber
  • Nick Quinn
  • Ian Benson

Founded in 1995, they represent screenwriters, directors, playwrights, composers, and children's authors & illustrators.

Also film and TV rights in novels and non-fiction. Adult novels represented only for existing clients.  Read more

Sayle Screen Ltd

Contacts
11 Jubilee Place

London, SW3 3TD
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7823 3883
fax: 
020-7823 3363
email: 
info@saylescreen.com
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Agents

  • Jane Villiers
  • Matthew Bates
  • Toby Moorcroft

First established as a literary and dramatists' agency in 1896, Sayle ScreenFirst established as a literary and dramatists' agency in 1896, Sayle Screen has evolved into one of London's leading and longest standing independent agencies, now representing writers, directors and producers for film, television, stage and new media

Specialises in scripts for film, TV, theatre and radio. Represents film and TV rights in fiction and non-fiction for The Sayle Literary Agency, Greene and Heaton Ltd and Peter Robinson Ltd. Works in conjunction with agents in New York and Los Angeles.

Preliminary letter and return postage essential. Only accepts submissions by post, no email submissions.

Approximately 100 writers; the agency also represents directors for both film and television.

has evolved into one of London's leading and longest standing independent agencies, now representing writers, directors and producers for film, television, stage and new media
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United Agents

Contacts
12-26 Lexington Street

London, W1F 0LE
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7166 5266
email: 
info@unitedagents.co.uk
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Agents

  • Sarah Ballard
  • Rosemary Canter
  • Jessica Craig (adult foreign rights)
  • Caroline Dawnay
  • James Gill
  • Pat Kavanagh
  • Robert Kirby
  • Rosemary Scoular
  • Simon Trewin
  • Charles Walker
  • Anna Webber
  • Jane Willis (children's foreign rights)

Books
Please email a full outline for non-fiction projects. For fiction, please email a covering letter / email telling us about yourself and your writing career, together with a synopsis of your novel and the first three chapters.

Please send to booksassistant@unitedagents.co.uk.  Read more

Golvan Arts Management

Contacts
PO Box 766

Kew, Victoria 3101
Australia
tel: 
(03) 9853 5341
fax: 
(03) 9853 8555
email: 
golvan@ozemail.com.au
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Contact

  • Manager Director Debbie Golvan,
  • Director Colin Golvan

Children's fiction and non-fiction (10%+GST). Handles picture books, fiction for 5-8 and 9-12 year-olds, teenage fiction, series fiction, film/TV tie-ins, non-fiction and plays.

Also handles adult fiction and non-fiction, plays, feature film and TV scripts, visual artists and composers; 60% of list is for children's market.  Read more

Playmarket

Contacts
Level 2, 16 Cambridge Terrace
PO Box 9767
Wellington,
New Zealand
tel: 
(+64) 04 3828462
email: 
info@playmarket.org.nz
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Director

  • Murray Lynch

Playwrights' agency and script advisory service.

Its focus is the development and representation of New Zealand playwrights and their plays.

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The BBC National Short Story Award 2022

Information

Closing date: 
21 March 2022
Entry: 
British nationals and UK residents, aged 18 years or over. No entry fee
Prize: 
Winner £15,000 plus 4 shortlisted authors £600

The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) and BBC Young Writers' Award with Cambridge University (YWA) opened for submissions at 9am on Thursday 13th January 2022.The BBC National Short Story Award is one of the most prestigious for a single short story, with the winning author receiving £15,000, and four further shortlisted authors £600 each.  Read more

'Don't make it up any more'

24 January 2022

‘There's a whole debate about... whether we're just constrained to write about ourselves.  Read more

'It never occurred to me to write something people want to read.'

— Hanya Yanagihara

10 January 2022 - What's new

January 2022
  • ‘If there is anything I believe to be foundational to the business of writing then it is this: writing is work. To frame it in this way is to acknowledge that good writing doesn't come out, fully formed, at two in the morning; and nor does it require anything extraordinary in the way of genius or education, although of course it's possible to have an aptitude for it, and reading helps.
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