Submission status
Open
Submission route
Email
Response time
Assume no reply = no after 12 weeks
Last checked
14 days ago

About

Doug is managing director of Andrew Nurnberg Associates International, the agency's global network of literary agencies across non-Anglophone markets, and is also a literary agent and a board director of Andrew Nurnberg Associates in London.

Born and living in Edinburgh, he read history at University College London and spent sixteen years in publishing and cultural relations before joining the agency in 2017.

Looking for

  • experimental literature
  • literature in translation
  • serious non-fiction and graphic novels.

Clients include

  • Geum-Yi Lee
  • Vasily Grossman
  • Sasha Denisova
  • Irina Ratushinskaya

Agency submission guidelines

Submissions are by email only, to submissions@nurnberg.co.uk, addressed to a specific agent and named in the subject line. The agency represents fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, welcomes writers of all backgrounds and charges no reading fee. What to send: a covering letter in the body of the email, a one page synopsis and the first three chapters or fifty pages as attachments. For non-fiction, send an overview, chapter outlines and three sample chapters. Worth knowing: children's picture books and scripts for film, TV, radio or theatre are not represented. If you have not heard back after three months, assume the submission has been unsuccessful; the agency cannot enter into correspondence about submissions.

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