LONDON WRITERS’ CLUB LIVE WITH an AGENT
“Informative, insightful and fun. I would recommend any aspiring writer to pop along.”
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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.
24th February 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Eleanor Lawlor, Soho Agency
Eleanor Lawlor is an associate agent at The Soho Agency working across general fiction and children’s literature. She has experience with commercial women’s fiction and book club novels, narrative non-fiction works, and on the children’s side has worked on everything from picturebooks and middlegrade books to YA and graphic novels.
She loves a book with strong characters, a hooky plot or something that really taps into the universal emotions we all experience in a fresh way.
She is actively building her list and looking to acquire, particularly romance and YA submissions.
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, co-founder of The London Writers Club and is Head Judge for the Business Book Awards. She is also a literary agent for authors.
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2026 Events – live on zoom with Jacq Burns and a guest agent or author.
24 February – Eleanor Lawlor, Soho Agency
3 March – Author, John Purkiss and his publisher Jess Minocha from Octopus
21 April – Mithu Storoni, winner of Business Book of the Year 2025