Children's & YA
As one of the top literary agencies in the UK, our Children & YA department represents a wide range of critically acclaimed and best selling talents.
The children’s and YA department represents a huge range of talent, from critically acclaimed prize-winners to commercial bestsellers. Our extensive relationships with publishers and knowledge of the market means your debut is in excellent hands. In the past few years, we’ve launched several bestselling Children’s and YA debuts, including Jordan Lees who became a No.1 New York Times Bestseller with his Children’s debut, The Whisperwicks, and instant No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller, Katie Kirby with the internationally adored Lottie Brooks series.
In 2024, Gwen and Art Are Not In Love by bestselling author Lex Croucher was awarded the YA Book Prize, joined by our multi-award winning and nominated authors Benjamin Dean, Laura Steven and Kate Weston in the shortlist. Danielle Jawando won the same award with her book When Our World Collided in 2023. Our department has secured several coveted Children’s Book of the Month slots, such as The Girl Who Couldn’t Lie by Radhika Sanghani for Indie Books in May 2024, and two at Waterstones with Hercules: The Diary of A (Sort of) Hero by Tom Vaughan in March 2024 and The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair by Natasha Hastings in November 2023. Over the years, our Children’s authors are also known for bagging well-known award wins and nominations, including Maisie Chan winning the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize and the Branford Boase Award.
We are committed to representing books that are inclusive and representative of the diverse identities and communities of our readers, and building authors’ careers year on year, taking them from strength to strength, from the submission inbox to a leading brand. The Children’s market is a smaller but competitive one, largely driven by big names, and so we are focused on taking on a select number of authors whose potential for huge and long-term success we really believe in.
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Children’s & YA Submissions Form
Children’s & YA Submissions
For children’s & YA submissions, please only send us material when you have a completed manuscript, and when you are completely satisfied that the novel is at a point you are happy to share it.
In the same way you would write a formal covering letter, please paste an introduction to your novel in the designated box in the form below. You should include:
- A one or two-line elevator pitch
- Up to three comparable books or authors from the past ten years you’d place your book alongside
- A compelling blurb to get us interested in the story
- Any information about yourself that is relevant to the work you are submitting
Attach a one-page synopsis and the first three chapters, or first 10,000 words of the manuscript in one document. There should only be one attachment sent via the form. The synopsis should ‘tell the story,’ with spoilers, rather than ‘sell’ the story (that is done in the introductory email).
