Antony Harwood
Antony Harwood Literary Agency
Submission Guidelines
- Submit via
- Submission contact
- mail@antonyharwood.com
- Looking for
- Most genres/categories for adults and younger readers (excludes plays, screenplays, poetry, 'self-help' non-fiction, picture books)
- How to submit
- Email a brief outline and the opening three chapters (around 10,000 words) to mail@antonyharwood.com. Fiction writers who are unpublished should only submit once their manuscript is complete.
- Response time
- Usually within a few weeks (cannot respond to all)
What They Represent
- Genres
- Fiction And Non-Fiction
- Age categories
- Adult, YA, Middle Grade, Children's
- Location
- UK
What we found
Email brief outline and opening 3 chapters (~10,000 words). No postal submissions, no authors based outside the UK. The agency was founded in 2000 and is based in Oxford. Antony Harwood previously worked at Chatto and Windus and was a director at both Wylie, Aitken and Stone and Curtis Brown, and worked with authors including Angela Carter, Hilary Mantel, and Iris Murdoch. The agency also includes agent Jo Williamson, who focuses on children's and YA fiction, and Louise Harwood, who reads new submissions and provides editorial feedback on promising work.
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