Here are nine new literary agents actively seeking clients. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and will go the extra mile for their clients. All of these agents work for established agencies with good track records. They are looking for all genres.
Always check the agency website and agent bio before submitting. Agents can switch agencies or close their lists, and submission requirements can change.
NOTE: Don't submit to several agents at the same agency simultaneously. If one rejects you, you may then submit to another. (Some small agencies share. Be alert to a notice that "a no from one is a no from all.")
You can find a full list of agents actively seeking new clients here: Agents Seeking Clients.
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A seasoned development executive and producer, Sahar Kashi has spent over a decade bridging literary voices and the screen. She previously served as Head of Development and Production at Three Things Productions under an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television, and as a Creative Executive at Anonymous Content, working on series including Shadow & Bone, On My Block, and 13 Reasons Why.
What she is seeking: Sahar Kashi is open to adult and young adult fiction and memoir submissions. As an agent at Heirloom, Sahar is drawn to daring work that finds laughter alongside grief, explores mental health and emotional healing, and pushes narrative boundaries. She loves romance woven through immersive worldbuilding and stories that subvert genre expectations. She champions visionary storytellers who pair commercial insight with an authentic connection to their material.
How to submit: Please send Sahar your full manuscript and a query letter in which you succinctly describe your work, its place in the market, and anything about yourself that is pertinent to her consideration of the material. Please send all materials to QuerySahar@HeirloomLiterary.com.
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Chelsea Moyer has been promoted to Literary Agent at Raven Quill Literary Agency. Prior to Raven Quill, Chelsea graduated with her Master’s Degree from the Vermont College of Fine Arts Writing for Children and Young Adults program and gaining experience in the publishing industry as an Agency intern and Adult Department Assistant.
How to submit: Use her querytracker form HERE.
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Before joining Spencerhill Associates, Andi completed two in-depth internships with Creative Media Agency (CMA) and assisted two agents, including Bethany here at Spencerhill! In a previous life, she was an auditor for a Big Four accounting firm, an Assistant Controller at a High Frequency Trading firm, and an accounting specialist and bookkeeper for various companies across the world before taking down her CPA license. Andi spent a decade giving her time and energy to a career in accounting while quietly investing her heart and soul into stories through her own writing and writing community. Now, she aims to combine her favorite aspects of both worlds in service of uplifting other writers.
What she is seeking: Andi is looking for upmarket and commercial fiction for the adult & new adult markets. Across all genres, Andi wants stories that are dark, gritty, visceral, and perhaps a bit unhinged (okay, a lot unhinged). Please send her Romance - particularly Romance blended with Horror or Fantasy, fresh sports romance, and historical or contemporary with a magical or speculative bent. All spice levels welcome, but please no religious/inspirational romance, erotica, non-con, or dub-con. Andi particularly loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy - from grounded to epic - but must have the character first to be fully invested. She is open to a wide range of Horror, with a strong preference for indigenous North American (Canada & US) voices and anything that feels like mythology or folklore. Andi will also be looking for select Women's Fiction and Book Club fiction with dark, feminist vibes, gallows humor, and/or a speculative edge.
In KidLit, Andi is looking for Graphic Novels (author/illustrator only) for early readers to a young middle grade audience. She is also seeking Picture Books (authors and author/illustrators welcome) particularly with a subversive, wry, or quirky bent.
How to submit: Use her querymanager HERE.
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Ryan enjoys collaborating and is always open to having ideas bounced off of him, no matter how wild. Author career strategy chats are just as fun for him as conversations about character arcs and magic systems. His background in stage management means he isn't afraid to break down each scene of a manuscript into a spreadsheet.
Ryan lives in Connecticut with a bunch of swords. He does Tai Chi, Jianfa (Chinese sword fencing), and HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) so if you need help choreographing a fight scene, you know who to call. He is excited to grow his client list and create lasting partnerships.
What he is seeking: Ryan is interested in science fiction, fantasy, LitRPG, horror, and romance in both adult and YA and would love to open doors for underrepresented voices.
How to submit: Use his querymanager HERE.
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What she is seeking. She is excited to be accepting clients in the Adult and YA space. As a lifelong mystery reader, she is particularly interested in detective novels. Olivia is also interested in representing Gothic romances, darker Fantasy, and high concept horror, among others.
How to submit: Use her querytracker form HERE.
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What she is seeking: She is excited to work with authors who write young adult, middle grade, science fiction, fantasy, and anything with a touch of magic, she is especially captivated by LGBTQIA+ content and underrepresented voices. She is interested in anything cozy, but specifically fantasy or science fiction. Open to all cozy genres though, including mystery, romance, and horror.
How to submit: Use her querymanager HERE.
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Ms. J.D. Myall of The Tobias Literary Agency
J.D. Myall is an editorial agent and the author of the YA fantasy Heart’s Gambit and its sequel, Pawn’s Fate, from Wednesday Books. Having navigated querying, submission, revisions, and publication herself, she brings an author’s perspective to her work with clients.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Drexel University, where she teaches, and a BS in Criminal Justice from West Chester University. She has worked as a sensitivity reader, judged Writer’s Digest competitions, and written for Writer’s Digest, Ms. Magazine, and HuffPost. She also hosts the Craft Chat Chronicles podcast.
What she is seeking: J.D. represents picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult fiction and nonfiction, as well as graphic novels and illustrators. She is especially excited to grow her middle grade and young adult lists.
For middle grade, give her kids with big problems, questionable plans, and plenty of heart. She loves unexpected friendships, wild adventures, mysteries that need solving, and stories just creepy enough to make turning off the bedroom light feel like a bad idea. Humor is always welcome.
For YA, she especially loves fantasy, romantasy, and horror, and welcomes thrillers, mysteries, speculative fiction, magical realism, and contemporary stories. She’s drawn to magic with consequences, secrets that refuse to stay buried, and characters with something to lose. Bring on the yearning, impossible relationships, and falling in love when everything else is going wrong. Friendships and family relationships can break her heart just as easily.
Her criminal justice background informs her interest in crime, motive, and the reasons people do what they do.
How to submit: Use her querymanager HERE
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Romance
- I am yearning for a high-concept contemporary romance.
- I’m a fan of romances with a speculative twist (like B.K. Borison’s Good Spirits) or are a genre blend.
- My favorite tropes are small town, workplace romance, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers (of course), fake dating, only one bed, and second chance romance, but I’d love to see a fresh spin on them.
- I adore stories where both the female main character and male main character are well-developed, messy people. I actually love a third act breakup and the miscommunication trope, but they both have to be earned and are realistic.
- I prefer open-door romances, but I’m open to closed-door romance as long as it remains sex positive.
- I’m dying for a modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey or Mansfield Park. I also would love to read a modern version of Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.
- I’m a sucker for domestic thrillers; ever since I read Gone Girl, I’ve been hooked! I’m particularly drawn to those that deal with themes of motherhood like Ashley Audrain’s The Push.
- I also love thrillers set in glamorous places or deal with the wealth and class disparities. Bonus points if the protagonist is a conman or the plot involves a heist.
- Ever since I read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, I’m dying for a Gothic thriller. Even better if there’s an element of satire.
- I desperately want dark academia. If you have a book like The Maidens, send it to me!
- I am on the hunt for unreliable narrators and “unlikable” main characters.
- I’m not a fan of political, legal, spy, or military thrillers. I especially don’t want anything that involves AI or cybercrime.
- I can’t stop reading weird girl lit, so please send me your manuscripts! I really can’t get enough of it. The weirder, the better.
- I’m a fan of unlikable female characters. I will like them!
- I enjoy books that explore ideas of new motherhood, but I’m looking for a fresh take.
- I’m on the lookout for manuscripts about female friendships, especially the messy and complicated parts of them.
- I’m an only child fascinated by sister dynamics.
- I also love upmarket and book club fiction.
- I love gorgeous writing, but there must also be a strong plot and developed characters.
- I’m a huge fan of writers who play with narrative form or conventions (like Trust by Hernan Diaz).
- For all non-fiction, I need a large platform, a fresh concept, and a hook that grabs me.
- For memoir, I love a book that reads like fiction and has a larger message (like Maid by Stephanie Land).
- I’m interested in non-fiction books that focus on pop culture, the arts, celebrities, history, biography, and parenting.
- I also would love a book by an adoptee or a birth parent on adoption.
- Journalists are my favorite people. Please, please send me your books!
How to submit: Use her querymanager HERE.
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What she is seeking: Phoebe is actively growing her list, and has a particular interest in Sci-Fi and Fantasy. She’s always interested in stories by queer and BIPOC authors, and she’s excited to help writers develop their projects in a way that feels most authentic to each of them.
How to submit: Please send all queries to phoebe@brittsiesscreative.com with “Query” in the subject line.
