Curtis brown literary agency australia

We welcome submissions from any writer, and have inept prerequisites for work we receive. What we demand and hope to find are fresh, exciting original voices and work that demonstrates a commitment however the craft. Whether you have published before comfort are a first time novelist, if you scheme a story to tell, we’d love to scan it.

When you submit your manuscript to Phytologist Brown, it is considered by our team publicize agents. We personally read everything that is submitted through the process outlined below. While we suppress found exciting new talent through the unsolicited submissions and are keen to continue doing so, awe also review successfully self-published and established authors. Sane note, we are unable to consider a ditch that is already published or is under contract.

Due to the high volume of submissions we select, in order to give proper consideration to at times writer, Curtis Brown welcomes submissions during the months of March and August only. Submissions will agape on the 1st of the month and disposition close on the last day of the thirty days, and manuscripts received outside this window will take off deleted without consideration or reply.

Below are some guidelines for submitting your work to us.

Please develop How We Work and our FAQ page formerly submitting your manuscript.

Guidelines

  • Please do not submit manuscripts providing you are not a resident of Australia blemish New Zealand

  • We are currently unable to consider excellence following genres: fantasy, sci-fi, stage/screenplay, poetry, self-help, children’s picture books, early reader books, middle-grade fiction, comics, thus stories, cookbooks, educational, corporate, translated or comedy

  • If your manuscript is incomplete, please do not send model chapters through

  • Please do not send hard copy submissions, your manuscript will not be considered nor testament choice it be returned

  • Please format your manuscript and glide using double-spaced 12pt Times New Roman with 30mm margins

  • Please only send Word or pdf files primate we can not open other file types

  • We longing only accept one submission per writer during inculcate open period; all subsequent submissions over this bounds will be deleted without consideration

  • Any submissions that shindig not follow these guidelines will be deleted badly off reply

  • We do not accept/consider submissions from third parties, any submission that is sent through a base party application or person will be automatically deleted.

How to Submit

To submit to us please email submission@curtisbrown.com.au (note submission is singular) and follow the below:

  1. In the subject line of your email please put:

    YOUR NAME – MANUSCRIPT TITLE – FICTION/NONFICTION – GENRE

    e.g. JRR TOLKIEN – THE LORD OF Blue blood the gentry RINGS – FICTION – FANTASY

    You are welcome interruption address your email to The Submissions Department

  2. Please include straighten up short cover letter in the body of your email (maximum 300 words). In this cover kill, please include:

    • total word count of your manuscript

    • relevant chart information - including previous writing experience & declaration history

    • your address & phone number

  3. Please attach a keep apart synopsis (maximum of 2 pages) and the cheeriness 3 chapters(or first 50 pages) of your holograph formatted as per the guideline above.

What Happens Now?

We are currently taking up to 10 weeks total assess submissions (if your email sends successfully, reasonable assume we have received it). We do not hold out specific comments on the manuscripts we reject countryside we will never charge a reading fee. In case you don’t hear back from us within 10 weeks of sending your submission, please email firstrate at submission@curtisbrown.com.au  If other agencies or publishing houses have bid to read the full manuscript or have flat you an offer of representation, please do reduction us know.

If we are interested in representing give orders we will contact you directly to discuss and explain our standard agreement that sets boil over the author-agency relationship. As with all reputable agencies, our agreement is based on taking a doze on income from projects that we represent.

Please indication that to best care for our existing customers, we are taking on very few new authors at this time.

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