Night Shift by Natalka Burian
represented by Wolf Literary
Wolf Literary Services
115 Broadway
New York, NY 10006
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Wolf Literary Services is
a New York agency with five agents, four of whom are looking for new authors:
Laura Southern is the newest member of the team, and
like all new agents, she needs authors. Laura Southern joined Wolf Literary Services in 2021
as an assistant to Kirsten Wolf and is now building her list as an associate
agent. Born and raised in Texas, Laura received her BA in English from Baylor
University before moving to New York City, where she earned her MS in
Publishing from New York University while assisting at Morhaim Literary.
Laura loves lyrical prose and character-driven narratives regardless of age group or genre. In adult, she is looking for fantasy, science-fiction, and horror with lush worldbuilding and voice that vibrates off the page. She’s a fan of villains, setting as character, and stories that dive headfirst into the weird or strange.
Romcoms
and fantasy romcoms with sharp, witty prose are also high on her list, as well
as upmarket fiction with off-beat premises. As a Texan native, Laura has a soft
spot for narratives set in the South, particularly when told from diverse
perspectives and featuring LGBTQ+ narrators.
In young adult and middle grade, Laura is
interested in speculative fiction across any subgenre, as well as select
contemporary fiction. Laura loves the fae, talking/magical animals, marching
band, new twists on quest narratives, genre-blending, found family,
mythological retellings, and dragons.
Additionally, Laura is looking for memoir
and narrative nonfiction. She’d especially like to work with scientists,
journalists, and other experts writing on animal and nature conservation.
Query Laura through her query manager here.
Rachel “Rach” Crawford joined Wolf Literary Services as an agent in 2015. She represents authors in both the U.S. and Australia, and represents U.S. rights on behalf of select Australian publishers and agents. Previously, she was MacKenzie Wolf’s foreign rights manager. Before moving to Wolf, Rach worked in rights at Fletcher and Company, at Sterling Lord Literistic, and as a publicist for a small press.
Rach’s clients have won Walkley Awards, are Fulbright Scholars, have been shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and appeared in Best American Short Stories.
Rach represents literary fiction and
narrative nonfiction, with a particular interest in LGBTQ+ perspectives across
topics. In nonfiction she is drawn above all else to lyrical writing and
rigorous thinking, and is interested in climate change, nature, geopolitics,
migration, pop culture, tech, and in works that might be defined as cultural
anthropology – books that help us understand the world we live in now.
In fiction, as well as work that engages
with the above topics, she has a particular soft spot for social horror,
literary fiction that flirts with genre, working class characters, and intimate
novels that burrow deep into the brain of one captivating weirdo.
Query Rach through her query manager here.
Kate Johnson is an agent as well as UK rights manager for Wolf Literary Services and the Gillian MacKenzie Agency. Before moving to Wolf Literary, Kate was an agent and Vice President at Georges Borchardt, Inc.
Her authors have won the PEN Faulkner Award, Center for
Fiction’s First Novel Prize, Whiting Award, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’
Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction, National Book
Foundation’s 5 Under 35, the Nigeria Prize for Literature, and have been
longlisted for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the PEN Open Book
Award. Kate has chaired the judging panel for the Bristol Short Story Prize and
Bath Short Story Award.
Kate represents literary
and upmarket fiction as well as a range of narrative nonfiction and select
memoir, and is interested in food, running, obsessives, unconventional
families, art, global stories, social justice, mental health, medicine, and the
environment. She loves working with journalists. Across all her projects, she
looks for authentic voices and books that uncover something off-kilter in the
everyday, or conversely something relatable in the extraordinary.
Query Kate through her query manager here.
Leigh Eisenman is a literary agent and an attorney with Wolf Literary Services. She is an experienced lawyer who has been practicing in New York since 2003. After ten years of practicing in the New York offices of several international law firms, Leigh shifted her focus to the publishing industry.
Since then, she has handled publishing and publishing-adjacent agreements and
matters on behalf of several agencies and law firms. She serves on the
Contracts Committee of the Association of American Literary Agents.
As an agent, Leigh represents primarily
adult nonfiction and select literary and commercial fiction. On the nonfiction
side, she loves working on illustrated books of all stripes – including
cookbooks, lifestyle, the arts, pop culture, travel, humor/gift, health and
wellness, and self-care, as well as personal finance, personal/professional
development, and memoir.
In fiction, she's drawn to present day
(not historical), realistic (no sci-fi or fantasy) stories that transport her
through a vivid, well-defined sense of place and explorations of relationships
(including journeys of self-discovery). Across both, she's drawn to fresh
voices and perspectives.
Query Leigh at: queries@wolflit.com
Include sample manuscript pages for
fiction or a full proposal for nonfiction.
See Wolf Literary’s full guidelines here.
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If you’re interested in meeting an agent and in
getting published, don’t miss our in-person How to Get Published
workshop, Saturday, November 19, in Mississauga, with literary
agent Olga Filina of 5 Otter Literary. As this is an in-person workshop,
attendance will be strictly limited. Details here.
Beyond that, Brian’s schedule continues to take shape:
Weekly classes starting soon:
Online: Writing
Personal Stories, Monday afternoons, 12:30 – 2:30, Oct 24 – Dec 5, 2022 {Or
to Dec 12 if the course fills up.) Details here.
Winter class will be posted soon.
Writing Retreats:
March in Muskoka Writing Retreat at Sherwood
Inn, Friday, March 24 – Monday, March 27, 2023. Details here.
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