 |
| Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin, winner of the Leacock Award for humour, fianlist for the Giller Prize, represented by Transatlantic |
Transatlantic Agency
2 Bloor
Street East
Suite 3500
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M4W 1A8
Note: Don't ever miss a post on Quick Brown Fox. Fill in
your email in the box to the right under my bio, and get each post delivered to
your Inbox. ~ Brian
Transatlantic Agency is one of Canada’s
largest literary agencies, with eleven agents. It represents
adult and children’s authors of all genres, including illustrators. Five of the agents at Transatlantic are currently looking for authors:
Fiona Kenshole brings
a lifetime of passion and experience of children’s and YA books: she was still
just a teen when she started working in a children’s bookshop. After graduating
with a Masters in English Literature from Cambridge University, she went on to
spend 20 years as a senior publisher holding key positions in the UK, as
Publishing Director at Oxford University Press Children’s Books, Deputy
Managing Director of Hodder Children’s Books and Editorial Director at
HarperCollins. Her authors have won or been nominated for every major British
children’s literary award. Several have become million copy bestsellers.
Fiona has lectured
widely on children’s books including at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and
taught publishing to Masters degree students at Oxford Brookes University. She
is herself a published author. She has organized children’s events for the
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. In 2004 she became Vice President of
Development Acquisition at Laika Inc.
She moved to the USA and spent several
years creating a development slate of new projects for the animation studio.
Fiona has worked with major directors and screenwriters, acquiring and adapting
children’s books and original scripts into movies, including the Academy
nominated Coraline and Paranorman.
Fiona’s list is currently open to queries
from middle grade and young adult writers. She will consider anything with a
powerful voice. Her wish list is quirky contemporary, humor, unreliable
narrators, immigrant stories, stories by diverse writers, sister stories, real
children in magical worlds, thrillers, mysteries and ghost stories. Fiona has a
soft spot for a great detective story. Her dream is a submission so compelling
she’d rather read it than engage with real life!
She is also looking
for excellent food writers, including bloggers.
She’s not looking for
high sword and sorcery fantasy (unless funny), faith based texts, or anything
in rhyme. She considers picture books and illustrators by referral only.
Query Fiona at: fiona@transatlanticagency.com
Include
the first three chapters plus a synopsis and bio pasted into the body of the
email. No attachments.
Stephanie Sinclair is Samantha Haywood’s
assistant and is also building her own list of authors. She is seeking literary fiction, upmarket women’s and commercial fiction
and will consider literary thriller and suspense, and YA crossover. No
historical or romance fiction.
In nonfiction, she’s
looking for narrative nonfiction, memoir, investigative journalism and true
crime.
Query Stephanie at: stephanie@transatlanticagency.com
Attach a
20-page writing sample in Word or PDF format.
Amy Tompkins is an omnivorous reader with eclectic
tastes. On the children’s side, she is looking for middle-grade and young adult
fiction and nonfiction, including fiction in all genres. She represents picture
books only if the authors are also writing for other levels.
On the adult side, she
is interested in nonfiction, and literary and commercial fiction in all genres
(except horror, science fiction, and fantasy).
Query Amy at: amy@transatlanticagency.com
Attach a
20-page writing sample in Word or PDF format.
Jesse
Finkelstein
specializes in upmarket, accessible non-fiction that challenges current
conceptions, whether through a “big ideas” book or narrative. I am drawn to
entrepreneurs and people who are innovators in their fields and writing about
current affairs, business, culture, politics, technology, religion, and the
environment. I am most interested in authors who have an existing platform.
Attach a maximum 20-page
writing sample/excerpt (Microsoft Word document), along with a publishing
history and synopsis. Please note if other agents are also considering the
project.
Trena White specializes in upmarket, accessible nonfiction
that challenges current conceptions, whether through a “big ideas” book or
narrative. “I am drawn to entrepreneurs and people who are innovators in their
fields,” says Trena, “and to writing about current affairs, business, culture,
politics, technology, and the environment. Journalists who are obsessed with a
particular beat (gangs, climate change, etc.) always welcome.”
She’s also interested in
“fascinating, exceptionally well written life stories, usually with a current
affairs hook.”
She is most interested
in authors who have an existing platform.
Query Trena at: trena@transatlanticagency.com
Include a
maximum 20-page writing sample/excerpt embedded in the body of the email, along
with a publishing history and synopsis. No attachments. Please note if
other agents are also considering the project.
Full submission guidelines here.
Brian Henry will lead “You can write great dialogue," workshops on Saturday, July 15, in Mississauga (see here) and Saturday, July 22, in London (see here), and a Writing Your Life and Other True Stories workshop on Saturday, Aug 19. See here.
And there are three weekly creative writing
courses, introductory to advanced, starting soon (some of these may be full; email to inquire):
Details of all three courses here.
Also, Brian
will lead a Writing for Children & for Young Adult workshop on Saturday,
August 12, in Collingwood with literary agent Monica Pacheco (see here).
In the fall,
Brian will lead a weekly Writing Kid Lit class, Thursday mornings, Oct 5 – Nov 30, in Oakville,
with guest authors Sylvia McNicoll and Jennifer Mook-Sang (see here).
Note: For updated listings
of Writing for Children & for Young adult workshops and for weekly Kid lit
classes, see here (and scroll down).
Join us for
a Fall Colours
Writing Retreat, at Arowhon Pines Resort in Algonquin Park, Friday, Sept 15 – Sunday,
Sept 17 (see here).
Also, in the
fall, Brian will lead a full range of courses, including (for the first time) a
creative writing course in Toronto:
Writing Kid Lit, Thursday
mornings, Oct 5 – Nov 30, in Oakville, with guest authors Sylvia McNicoll and Jennifer
Mook-Sang. See here.
Extreme Creative Writing, Wednesday afternoons, Sept 20 – Dec 6, in Burlington
For more information or to reserve a spot in any
workshop, retreat, or weekly course, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca
See Brian’s complete current schedule here, including writing workshops
and creative writing courses in Algonquin Park, Bolton, Barrie, Brampton,
Burlington, Caledon, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Ingersoll, Kingston,
Kitchener, London, Midland, Mississauga, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St.
Catharines, Saint John, NB, Sudbury, Thessalon, Toronto, Windsor, Woodstock,
Halton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York Region, the GTA,
Ontario and beyond.
Navigation tips: Always check out the
labels underneath a post; they’ll lead you to various distinct collections of
postings. Also, if you're searching for a literary agent who represents a
particular type of book, check out this post.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.