United Agents
London, W1F 0LE
United Kingdom
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.
Children's and Young Adults' Books
We are happy to review material and will endeavor to respond within four weeks. In all cases we prefer correspondence by e-mail to jmarsh@unitedagents.co.uk; if you send material by post we will recycle it if it not right for us and contact you by e-mail (please make sure you enclose your e-mail address). Please do not include an SAE as work will not be returned.
- Picture Books: Please e-mail at least three stories - not in a series - as separate Word documents and a covering e-mail.
- Illustrators: Please e-mail a selection of JPEGs with a covering e-mail. If you also write stories, please send those along too.
- Fiction: Please e-mail the first three chapters and a synopsis as Word docs with a covering e-mail.
Film and Television Writers
We do not accept unsolicited material. Any unsolicited pitches, outlines and screenplays will be deleted without being read. If you are referred to one of the agents here by a producer, development executive or course tutor, you should email the agent directly, attaching a CV and giving details of who has referred you.
Playwrights
Please email one example of your work, accompanied by a covering letter and CV, to looking@unitedagents.co.uk. The work should be a play or an original radio play. We are unable to consider synopses or incomplete scripts.
Agent Specialism
Please contact the agent directly and not via WritersServices