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Emily Sweet

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Aevitas Creative Management·UK

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Represents
non-fiction
Looking for
Cookery; health; wellness; psychology; history; memoir; biography; current affairs; topical non-fiction
How to submit
Online Form
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Emily Sweet is a literary agent at Aevitas Creative Management based in UK. Their list focuses on non-fiction. Currently open to submissions. Submissions via Online Form. For current guidelines, check the agent's own submission page linked below.

Age Categories

Adult

Manuscript Wishlist

Cookery; health; wellness; psychology; history; memoir; biography; current affairs; topical non-fiction

Submission Tips

Submission route: Online form, https://www.aevitascreative.com/contact Aevitas submissions are via the website submission form (no hardcopy; no original screenplays; do not query more than one agent).

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Aevitas submissions are via the website submission form (no hardcopy; no original screenplays; do not query more than one agent). Sweet is a senior agent in the ACM UK division, an Oxford history graduate who spent a decade as an editor at Random House and Bloomsbury before founding her own agency, Emily Sweet Associates, in 2015. Her clients' work has featured on prize shortlists including the James Beard Foundation Awards, the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, the Guild of Food Writers Awards, the Walter Scott Prize, and the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, as well as The Sunday Times bestseller list. Writers can find additional information about her work at emilysweetassociates.com.

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