Your Path To Literary Agents
The Writers' Workshop
• Feedback on your writing (more) Our editors are all either professional authors or commissioning editors from major publishing houses, and between us we have written and edited thousands of books and won or been shortlisted for numerous awards. The company was set up by Harry Bingham, whose bestselling books have appeared in Britain, America, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, China - and elsewhere besides. Read More >> Manuscript assessment
Because we are extremely selective when it comes to choosing our editors, our manuscript assessments are as good as they get. And when we find a manuscript strong enough to be marketed, we will ALWAYS seek to place it with a literary agent - and never charge for so doing. What's more, we'll never leave your side. We have on occasion gone on supporting clients some five years after we first helped them to a literary agent. Read More >>
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Meet the agents
Each year we invite literary agents who are keen to take on new talent and who represent some of the biggest and best agencies in the business. Agencies represented at this year's Festival include United Agents, PFD, Christopher Little, Sheil Land, AP Watt, Watson Little, Conville & Walsh, and Blake Friedmann. We also hand-select some of the best agents from the many excellent smaller agencies. Some of those at this year's event include Lorella Belli, Peter Buckman, Julia Churchill, Lisa Eveleigh, David Headley, Penny Holroyde, and Jane Judd. Read More >> Literary agents advice library
We've worked with most of the largest literary agents in London - including Curtis Brown, United Agents, Shiel Land, Conville & Walsh, AM Heath, MBA, Darley Anderson, Aitken Alexander, PFD, Rogers Coleridge White - and numerous others. No one knows more than we do. So if you have a question about literary agents (including children's literary agents), we've got the answer. Our resource centre tells you how to get a literary agent, how to choose which ones to approach, how to write a good query letter, what a novel synopsis should look like, how to write a book proposal, what literary agents actually do - and much more. Read More >> Literary agents UK list
And, of course, because we've worked with huge numbers of London's top literary agents, our submissions planner is as well informed as it's possible to get. We've also categorised agents, so you can (for example) select only children's literary agents, fiction agents, non-fiction literary agents, etc. Agents who have taken submissions from us in the past are also identified. Read More >> |
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What are literary agents?
And what these guys do is simple. They are there to sell manuscripts to publishers. They aren't there to promote books that already exist (eg: self-published books). They're there to find publishers in the first place. For more on what agents do, go here. For more on different types of publisher, check this out. If you want an agent for a children's book (or picture book), you should probably check out our children's pages. |
What are editorial services?
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The world's leading editorial service for first time writers.
The gold standard way for any writer to improve their work is to get tough, independent editorial advice. The Writers' Workshop is all about providing editorial services in a way that is tough but sympathetic, market-aware and always constructive.
If you'd like to interact face to face with agents and publishers, then come to 
Are you getting ready to send your work to agents? If so, you'll want to make use of our downloadable submissions planner with links through to each agent's website.
Literary agents are also correctly known as authors agents - but you'll also find people talking about book agents, publishing agents, fiction agents, writers agents or even writing agents.
This site talks about manuscript assessment - but you'll also find us (and others) talking about manuscript evaluation, manuscript appraisal, manuscript review, editorial services, feedback services, editorial critiques and so forth. In essence, these are all names for the exact same thing - and that thing is our core service. It's what we do. You can find out what's involved by looking at our "
