LONDON WRITERS’ CLUB LIVE WITH an AGENT
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Join us at our LWC LIVE MONTHLY ONLINE EVENT. The live Zoom events are a friendly chat with a leading literary agent and Jacq Burns.
12th November 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Nicola Barr, The Bent Agency
Nicola arrived at this brilliant agency from Greene & Heaton, having spent her formative years at the literary imprint of HarperCollins, Flamingo. She has also worked as a reviewer for the Guardian, the Observer, the Scotsman, and others.
She represented bestselling commercial fiction authors, Richard & Judy bestsellers, and award-winning crime and commercial women’s fiction. Nicola is looking for upmarket commercial and well-written fiction, particularly if they speak to a social issue, shine a light on a true-life injustice, have an atypical hero or heroine. She adores literary fiction, experimental or traditional, and will not turn away a novel for lack of… anything happening.
She’s fascinated by dysfunctional or unusual families, oddballs, women struggling and achieving, the disenfranchised, outsiders. She embraces fiction that explores the darker side of life, and POV’s that don’t take the world too seriously.
In YA, she is passionate about grounded contemporary. She looks after Rainbow Rowell in the UK, so think ELEANOR AND PARK and FANGIRL…
She is a committed Londoner, born and raised in Northern Ireland, then studied at the University of Glasgow. She is looking to build on the brilliant Irish, Northern Irish and Scottish writers she already has. She also loves nothing more than getting stuck in editorially on a story if she sees brilliance there.
She is increasingly drawn to non-fiction that allows for a collective vent. She has represented books by Owen Hatherley, John Grindrod, Lauren Duca, Danielle Henderson, Alix O’Neill – on housing, Europe, feminism, millennials and sexual harassment. She loves illustrators, cartoonists, sport and comedy and she might even show an interest in a food blog. As long as it doesn’t mention cupcakes.
She is open and approachable and desperate to get good writing out in the world. Send her something.
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Jacq Burns, Literary Agent and Founder of London Writers’ Club
Join Jacq and a leading literary agent about anything to do with writing and publishing.
Jacq Burns was commissioning editor at Random House & Editorial Director at Harper Collins where she edited classics such as Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus, Who Moved My Cheese, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Toddler Taming – which have sold millions of copies.
She is the author of Write a Bestseller, published by Hodder, and a bestselling series of successful books for Random House, under a pseudonym. Jacq has also ghostwritten a number of well-known titles and co-founded The London Writers Club. She is also a literary agent for authors.
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2024/25 Events
12th November – Nicola Barr, The Bent Agency
10th December – Open Chat, Virtual Christmas Drink with Jacq Burns
14th January – Philappa Sitters, PSA Literary
February – Literary Agent with Jacq Burns