Catherine Clarke
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission route
- Website
- Response time
- Assume no reply = no after 12 weeks
- Last checked
- 2 days ago
About
Catherine has been building a list of adult non-fiction and children's fiction writers since 2001.
She co-founded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize in 2003 to recognise women's achievements in publishing. In 2017 she was named Literary Agent of the Year in the British Book Awards, and from 2022 to 2024 she was President of the Association of Authors' Agents.
Genres
Looking for
- adult non-fiction and children's fiction
- history and philosophy and biography, especially from authors who have the academic credentials or expertise but also have the ambition and vision and writerly skill to make us see their subjects in a new light, or to overturn received wisdom
- outstanding nature writing with a dash of compelling memoir
Agency submission guidelines
Submissions are accepted only through the online portal; postal submissions are not accepted. A covering letter should be included in the box provided, with other materials added as attachments. Work must be typeset in a legible font with double or 1.5 line spacing. Submissions should be addressed to a specific agent. High-concept science fiction, educational textbooks, erotica, graphic novels, picture books and translations of already published works are not sought, and the agency is not currently accepting submissions in fantasy, romantasy, science fiction and fantasy, or children's and young adult. Scripts for theatre, film or television are not represented. Only one project should be submitted at a time; only the first will be reviewed. For fiction: a full first draft should be ready before submitting, but only the first three chapters (maximum 10,000 words) should be sent initially, along with a one-page synopsis detailing the narrative arc. For non-fiction: a covering letter should be sent along with, for subject-led non-fiction, a proposal (no more than 20 pages) covering the book's essential idea, structure, market analysis and the writer's credentials, plus approximately 5,000 words of sample text. For narrative non-fiction or memoir, the first 10,000 words of the manuscript should be sent, optionally with a proposal or synopsis of the rest of the book.
Agency AI policy
They do not accept submissions that they reasonably believe to have been wholly or partially generated, written, or edited by artificial intelligence (AI).
Links
Clients include
- Samira Ahmed
- David Almond
- Karen Armstrong
- Lucy Ash
- James Attlee
- Katya Balen
- James Barr
- David Barrie
- John Barton
- John Batchelor
- Erica Benner
- Dame Claire Bertschinger DBE DL
- Paul Betts
- Michael Bird
- Elleke Boehmer
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