Caroline Hardman
Hardman & Swainson
Submission Guidelines
- Submit via
- Submission contact
- submissions@hardmanswainson.com
- Looking for
- Fiction: literary, upmarket commercial, book club, historical, crime, thrillers (no sci-fi/fantasy/children's). Non-fiction: serious/pop science, psychology, feminism, big ideas/current affairs, health/body/mind, personal development, selective lifestyle, narrative/memoir
- How to submit
- Email submissions@hardmanswainson.com. Name your chosen agent in the cover email. For fiction, attach a one-page synopsis and the full manuscript. For non-fiction, attach a proposal and a sample chapter, or the whole work if complete. Submit to one agent only.
- Response time
- If no response within 8 weeks treat as pass
What They Represent
- Genres
- Fiction And Non-Fiction
- Age categories
- Adult
- Location
- UK
What we found
Submissions: choose one agent name in cover email and send to central submissions address. Fiction requires cover email and 1-page synopsis and full manuscript (attachment). Non-fiction requires cover email and proposal and sample chapter (or whole work if complete). No TV or film scripts or poetry. Caroline co-founded Hardman and Swainson and previously worked at the Christopher Little Literary Agency and The Marsh Agency, where she specialised in translation rights. She holds a first-class BA and an MA with distinction in English Literature from the University of Leeds. Her client list includes authors such as Helen Fields, Dinah Jefferies, Liz Trenow, and Rebecca Wait, among many others across literary fiction and serious non-fiction.
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