Janklow & Nesbit (UK) Ltd
Janklow & Nesbit, a leading literary and media agency, working with Brixton BookJam are searching for the next big debut author.
In a rare opportunity to get your work bumped up the pile of submissions and carefully assessed by an agent, we are asking you to submit the first 5,000 words of your novel plus a short outline detailing how the story develops. We are looking for everything: commercial crime, historical novels, psychological thrillers, literary fiction... we want a novel that will make us catch our breath and an idea that will race off the page and leave us hungry for more. We think you’re just the right people to give it to us!
All entries will be judged by leading agents at Janklow & Nesbit with the finalists invited to read at the BookJam event in December along with celebrated authors. The winner will be given the opportunity to have a meeting with literary agent Hellie Ogden of Janklow & Nesbit UK, to discuss their writing, plans for future work and routes to publication.
More about us...
Janklow Nesbit has been in business since 1973, and is one of the largest and most powerful literary agencies in the world, with offices in New York, London and LA. Janklow & Nesbit's US clients include Tom Wolfe, Jeffrey Eugenides, Thomas Harris, Joan Didion, Danielle Steel, and DinawMengestu. Janklow & Nesbit's London office opened in 2000 and began to build a list of UK writers. Clients include bestsellers Jasper Fforde, Alex Bellos, and Tilly Bagshawe, thriller writers Charles Cumming and Elly Griffiths, and science writers Adam Rutherford, Kevin Fong, and Paul Broks. The parent agency opened an office in Los Angeles in 2011.
Organisers Zelda Rhiando, James Wallis and Stuart Taylor created the Brixton BookJamin July 2012 because they felt that Brixton lacked a platform for emerging literary talent, and London lacked author events specifically devoted to prose. It was an immediate success, regularly pulling in crowds of 150+, attracted by five-minute readings and the opportunity to meet notable writers and hear from new ones. Despite its popularity, the BookJam has maintained an ethos of being a free and unprejudiced arena, where your only credentials need be a passion for writing and willingness to share this with others.
Please email your submission to by 1st October 2013.