Folio literary management series#

Descant literary journal seeks submissions for 're.The 2011 Canadian Writers' Contest Calendar ~ avai.'Grace,' flash fiction by Sherrie Charter.Brian also has a few Writing for Children and Young Adults workshops coming up: on January 29 in Kitchener (see here), on February 26 in Barrie (see here), and on March 5 in Toronto (see here).įor information about all of Brian's writing workshops and creative writing courses, see here. īrian Henry has a couple 'How to Get Published' workshops coming up: in Mississauga on December 4 with literary agent Martha Magor Webb of Ann McDermid and Associates (see here) and in Burlington on February 19 with agent Alisha Sevigny of the Rights Factory (see here). I do my best to respond to all queries within four to six weeks.įor a list of all the agents at Folio and what they represent see here. Query Emily at: you are an author / illustrator, please let me know if you have a website / online portfolio that I should visit! If you’re a novelist, please include a synopsis, the first ten pages of your manuscript, and any relevant information (such as previous publishing experience) in the body of your email. 'I believe it was Ursula Nordstrom who once wrote (of the process of considering a manuscript) something along the lines of: “If you can resist it, do.” A tough love sort of approach to the process, but it’s a litmus test I often use to help me decide if I am the right agent to represent a particular project and to help an author achieve his or her publishing goals.' I’m looking for what comes after vampires and werewolves.

These topics have been very successfully published already. I am not the best agent for fangs, claws, and wings. I’m really, really looking for something that feels new, that I haven’t read before. I am looking for fiction that has an impact-whether it packs a punch or effects change with a more subtle hand, but something that can’t be put down, a manuscript that begs me to turn the page, work that changes me with the reading. I am open to considering all sorts of YA from mysteries to well-written chick lit, coming-of-age, the lyrical, the literary, and the laughable. 'I’m looking for voices that won’t be ignored. 'From picture books by authors and author/artists, to authentic and fresh middle-grade fiction, to lyrical and daring YA. 'I am exclusively interested in acquiring projects for young and teen readers,' says Emily. (For more on Pippin Properties and authors they're looking for, see here.) After 3 years she moved to the agenting side of the business and spent six years as an agent and the rights director at Pippin Properties, Inc., a boutique children’s literary agency. At Hyperion, Emily worked on projects by celebrated authors and artists such as Julie Andrews Edwards, Rosemary Wells, Susan Jeffers, and L.M. Hyperion Books for Children hired her as an editorial assistant and she soon advanced to an editor's position. Most recently, the highly respected children's lit agent Emily van Beek left Pippin Properties to join Folio and to help them build their children’s book division.Įmily moved from Toronto to New York in 1999 armed, as she says, 'with a dream to work in children’s book publishing and inspiration from my favorite (if clichéd) Zen magnet: 'Leap and the net will appear.''

Folio literary management series#

Like many agencies that couldn't hep but notice the success of the Twilight series following on the heels of the massively successful Harry Potter series, Folio has recently been expanding the number of children's authors they represent. In her 2016 study “The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio,” Oxford literary scholar Emma Smith writes that although the book arrived without any fanfare, “it is hard to overstate the importance of this literary, cultural and commercial moment.” She adds that this book’s publication marked “the beginning of the extensive and expansive reception of Shakespeare.Folio is a New York literary agency, with a dozen agents – most of whom are open to new authors. Folio handles both fiction and nonfiction. Published more than seven years after the bard’s death, the First Folio, as it is known today, constitutes a landmark in printing, a cornerstone of the Western canon and a monument to the writer’s singular genius. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.”ĭering has the distinguished claim of being the earliest recorded purchaser of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. He also bought two copies of a book that had only recently hit the shelves-a large, expensively-bound tome entitled “Mr. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a book of Ben Jonson’s plays. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St.

A page from a copy of Shakepeare’s First Folio, shown before a 2016 auction.