Georgia Garrett
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission route
- Response time
- Aims to reply within 8 weeks
- Last checked
- 2 days ago
About
Georgia is deputy managing director at RCW Literary Agency, representing fiction, narrative non-fiction and children's books.
She joined RCW as a director in 2011, having been joint deputy managing director of AP Watt and an agent at the Wylie Agency. Before that, she was editorial director at Picador and an editor at Victor Gollancz.
Genres
Looking for
- fiction
- narrative non-fiction particularly memoir
- literary quality
- voice-led fiction
- compelling stories
- books that make her think, wonder, and laugh
Agency submission guidelines
Submissions should include a covering letter telling the agency about the author and the background to the book. Attachments in either Word or PDF formats are acceptable, otherwise sample chapters or proposals can be pasted into the body of the submission email. Submissions must be the original work of the author and not generated or co-written using artificial intelligence. Please submit to one agent only via their literary agent page; postal submissions are not accepted. RCW does not represent scripts for theatre, film or television. Fiction: the first three chapters or approximately the first fifty pages of the work to a natural break, and a brief synopsis. Non-fiction: a proposal up to twenty pages in length explaining what the work is about and why you are best placed to write it.
Agency AI policy
Submissions must be the original work of the author and not generated or co-written using artificial intelligence.
Links
- Websitercwlitagency.com/agents/georgia-garrett
- Submissionsrcwlitagency.com/submissions
- Emailivy@rcwlitagency.com
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- Jesse Armstrong
- David Baddiel
- Hugh Brody
- Adelaide Docx
- Jim Down
- Joe Dunthorne
- Brenda Eisenberg
- Lissa Evans
- Hadley Freeman
- Juliet Gardiner
- Amika George
- Richard E.Grant
- Stephen Grosz
- Isabella Hammad
- Sophie Heawood
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