New agent Christina Clifford of Union Literary seeks literary fiction, plus memoir, historical biography, business & science

The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 

represented by Union Literary

Union Literary

30 Vandam Street

Suite 5A
New York NY 10013

http://unionliterary.com/

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Union Literary is a boutique agency with four agents specializing in literary fiction, popular fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, social history, business and general big idea books, popular science, cookbooks and food writing. They place projects with domestic and foreign publishers, and film and television companies.

Christina Clifford is the newest member of the team at Union Literary, and like all new agents, she needs authors.

Christina worked for many years as an agent at Melanie Jackson Agency where she represented several award-winning authors and found US homes for the works of international authors.  She has three children and lives in New York City.

Christina is looking for both seasoned authors and new voices in fiction and nonfiction. She specializes in literary fiction and has a soft spot in her heart for international fiction hailing from the homeland of authors like William Trevor, Edna O’Brien, and Zadie Smith, not to mention Rohinton Mistry, Mario Vargas Llosa and J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.

Christina is also interested in continuing to build a narrative nonfiction list in the genres of historical biography, memoir, business, and science.

Query Christina at: christina@unionliterary.com

Nonfiction submissions should include a query letter, a proposal, and a sample chapter.

Fiction submissions should include a query letter, a synopsis, and either sample pages or a full manuscript. See Union’s submissions page here.

Brian Henry will lead a Writing for Children & for Young Adults workshop on Sunday, May 29, in Ottawa with acclaimed author Alan Cumyn (see here).

Also, Brian hosts From the Horse's Mouth ~ Strategies for Getting Published on Saturday, June 18, with Barbara Berson of Helen Heller Agency, Michael Mirolla, publisher Guernica Editions, and Bhavna Chauhan, editor, Penguin Random House Canada, at Ryerson University in Toronto (see here).

Other upcoming workshops include  How to Write Great Characters, Saturday, May 14 in Toronto (see here) and Sunday, June 5 in Georgetown (see here), and Writing and Revising, May 28, in Mississauga (see here).

Finally, Brian has two Writer’s Retreats coming up at Arowhon Pines Resort in Algonquin Park: Friday, June 10 – Sunday, June 12 (see here) and Friday, Sept 16 – Sunday, Sept 18 (see here).

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“Welcome to Creative Writing,” Tuesday afternoons, Tuesday afternoons, July 5 – Aug 23, in Burlington

“Intensive Creative Writing,” Wednesday afternoons, July 6 – Aug 24, in Burlington

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See details of all three classes here. 

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