Antony Harwood
OpenRepresents
Wants to See
Age Categories
Adult, YA, Middle Grade, Children's
Looking For
Most genres/categories for adults and younger readers (excludes plays, screenplays, poetry, 'self-help' non-fiction, picture books)
Manuscript Wishlist
Most genres/categories for adults and younger readers (excludes plays, screenplays, poetry, 'self-help' non-fiction, picture books)
Submission Tips
Submission route: Email, mail@antonyharwood.com Email brief outline + opening 3 chapters (~10,000 words). No postal submissions; no authors based outside the UK.
Submission Details
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- Response time
- Usually within a few weeks (cannot respond to all)
- Last verified
- 5 Apr 2026Recently verified
Notes
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 & Windus and was a director at both Wylie, Aitken & 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.