Entering our crime writing competition? We want courage and audacity
bigissue.com – Wednesday March 6, 2019
Crime has become the most popular fiction genre in the UK. Book shops and libraries are bursting at the seams with decent page-turners. But it takes something special for a novel to stand out, to tell a tale which doesn’t just pull readers through to the end, but leaves them pondering stories and characters for days afterwards.
Crime fiction has many powers. There is nothing – no moral or political issue, no character type, no philosophical query – which cannot be served by a good crime story. Dostoevsky used crime to investigate the parameters of morality, Raymond Chandler to showcase his remarkable ear for dialogue, Agatha Christie to tie readers up in twists and turns, Ian Rankin to explore the dark corners of a historic, shadow-ridden city. Really, ‘genre’ is a lazy catch-all term for a subject matter which has been utilised by writers as diverse as Robert Louis-Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Muriel Spark, Patricia Highsmith, Douglas Adams, Henning Mankell, Val McDermid and Paula Hawkins.
WGA Mobilizing For Battle With Talent Agencies, Seeks Team Captains For “Agency Campaign”
deadline.com – Wednesday March 6, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Mobilizing for war with the major talent agencies, the WGA West today called on its members to participate in its “Agency Campaign” to reshape the agenting business. In a message sent to members Tuesday, the guild is seeking volunteers to serve as team captains to act “as a liaison between a team of writers and the guild by updating writers on campaign developments, communicating questions and concerns and mobilizing fellow writers in support of the strategy.”
New Magazine Listing
firstwriter.com – Tuesday March 5, 2019
Publishes: Articles; Nonfiction; Poetry; Reviews;
Areas include: Hobbies; Religious;
Markets: Adult
Magazine for Christian writers. Includes articles and book and market reviews of interest to writers, and also poetry. See website for full guidelines.
Competition launched to find new crime writer – and the prize is a two-year book deal
inews.co.uk – Monday March 4, 2019
A competition has been launched in a bid to find the next big crime writer, with the prize of a two year book deal up for grabs.
The Big Issue magazine has joined forced with Avon (part of the HarperCollins publishing house) to promote the venture, and submissions are invited from across the UK.
Writing the novel you want to see in the world
irishtimes.com – Saturday March 2, 2019
In 2014 Lisa Coen and I put out our first book under the Tramp Press banner. We were young. I was bullish, irritated by the over-productive, under-resourced, gate-keeping male-centric world of publishing we’d experienced as office juniors or unpaid interns.
We wondered: what if we could secure funding from the Arts Council to help us start out on our own, publishing just a few titles a year, focusing on nothing but their extraordinary quality?
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Friday March 1, 2019
Handles: Fiction; Nonfiction
Markets: Adult; Youth
Represents a range of authors, from journalism and academic non-fiction, to genre fiction and fiction for young adults. No poetry, self-help or lifestyle books, picture books, or romance novels. See website for full guidelines.
Max Edwards launches new agency Apple Tree Literary
thebookseller.com – Thursday February 28, 2019
Max Edwards has left Mulcahy Associates to form his own agency, Apple Tree Literary, focusing on non-fiction and genre fiction.
Edwards worked previously as assistant at United Agents and Rogers, Coleridge and White alongside agent Natasha Fairweather, before joining Mulcahy Associates at the end of 2017 as an agent.
Lindsay Literary Agency scholarship for 'under-represented' author returns
thebookseller.com – Thursday February 28, 2019
The Lindsay Literary Agency is sponsoring a place at the Winchester Writers’ Festival for a children’s author from an “under-represented” background for the second year running.
Launched last year, any author without an agent from the UK or Ireland can apply if they are LGBTQ+, from a BME background, disabled or from a ethnic, cultural or religious minority. Applicants can be unpublished but must be writing children’s fiction (YA or middle grade).
New Magazine Listing
firstwriter.com – Wednesday February 27, 2019
Publishes: Fiction; Nonfiction; Poetry;
Markets: Adult;
Preferred styles: Literary
Publishes work from a wide range of voices. Particularly interested in hearing from writers historically underrepresented in literary publishing and in place-based contexts: people of colour, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, gender-nonconforming people, LGBTQIA+, women, and others. Check website for specific reading periods and submit prose up to 30 double-spaced pages or 3-5 poems by post with SAE or using online system ($3 charge). No hard copy submissions from outside the US.
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Wednesday February 27, 2019
Handles: Fiction; Nonfiction
Areas: Autobiography; Crime; Fantasy; Historical; Humour; Politics; Romance; Science; Sci-Fi; Thrillers
Markets: Adult; Youth
Treatments: Commercial; Literary; Popular
Send query by email only. No physical submissions. See website for individual agent interests and contact details.
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