The Best Literary Agents Seeking Narrative Nonfiction Submissions

💼 Agency: The Unter Agency

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: https://theunteragency.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Contact via email

Genres: Fiction, Middle Grade, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult

Previous clients: Previously published middle grade fiction with Penguin Random House, Sourcebooks, Capstone, and Bloomsbury USA.

Open to queries

💼 Agency: Massie McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: http://www.mmqlit.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Fiction, Commercial Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction

Previous clients: Jonathan Weisman, Lidia Yuknavitch, Kerry Cohen, Janet Beard

Open to queries

💼 Agency: Curtis Brown UK

🌍 Location: London, GB

🧑‍💻 Website: https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Fiction, Crime Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Nonfiction, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Commercial Fiction

Previous clients: Miranda Hart, Dan Dare, Armistead Maupin, Lynda Bellingham

Open to queries

💼 Agency: Books & Such Literary Agency

🌍 Location: San Francisco, US

🧑‍💻 Website: https://www.booksandsuch.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Nonfiction, Christian, Self-Help, Spirituality, Commercial Fiction, Diverse Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction

Previous clients: Erica Vetsch, Macaila Britton, Jennifer Deibel, Cathy Baker

Open to queries

💼 Agency: WLA Books

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: https://wlabooks.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries via email

Genres: Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction

Previous clients:

Open to queries

💼 Agency: Georges Borchardt, Inc.

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: http://gbagency.com

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through online form

Genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction

Previous clients: Lydia Fitzpatrick, Simon Han, Greg Jackson, Andrew Moore, Adam O’Fallon Price, Willa Richards, David Ridgen, Charlotte Shane, Shruti Swamy, Barrett Swanson, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Elizabeth Wetmore, Jenny Zhang.

💼 Agency: Julia Lord Literary Management

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: http://www.julialordliterarymgt.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, Humor, Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult, Nonfiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Sports, Memoir

Previous clients: Elizabeth Rush, Daniel M. Klein, Thomas Cathcart, Ethan Chorin, Chuck Pfarrer

Open to queries

💼 Agency: Ayesha Pande Literary

🌍 Location: New York City, US

🧑‍💻 Website: http://www.pandeliterary.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through online form

Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Humor, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Diverse Fiction, BIPOC, Feminism, LGBTQ

Previous clients: John Paul Brammer, Franny Choi, Jezz Chung, Lilly Dancyger, Carson Faust, Faylita Hicks, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Cleo Qian.

Open to queries

💼 Agency: The Cheney Agency

🌍 Location: New York City, US

🧑‍💻 Website: https://www.cheneyagency.com/

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through email

Genres: Fiction, Commercial Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Politics

Previous clients: Raymond Strom, Lawrence Osborne, David Treuer, Lauren Hilger, Ron Rash

Open to queries

💼 Agency: Open Book Literary

🌍 Location: New York, US

🧑‍💻 Website: https://www.openbooklit.com/home

📣 Preferred contact method: Submit queries through QueryManager

Genres: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult, Narrative Nonfiction, Children's Book, Crime Fiction, LGBTQ, Diverse Fiction, Picture Book

Previous clients: Christiana Doucette, Francis Morella, Andrea Shapiro, Kate Allen Fox