Agent List XXIII
Send your queries out and about 🌎 📗
However you’re spending today, October 7, I hope you’re keeping well. Thank you for being here. 🌷
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Before this month’s list of agents open to queries, you’ll find information about four book contests presently accepting submissions. (Note: the Wildhouse fiction contest closes its portal tonight.) You can find a more complete list of book contests here.
1. Yale Younger Poets competition (48-64 pp - now open to poets of any age) – annual submission period is October 1 – November 15.
2. Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize (novellas, short stories, novels - 40,000-70,000 words) for women writers. “We are particularly seeking stories that give voice to the marginalized and underrepresented,” Minerva Rising Press. $1000 cash prize and 10 copies - submission period is August 10 - October 10.
3. River Teeth Journal Nonfiction Book Prize - “manuscripts must be in English, double-spaced, and between 35K-85K words long (approx. 150-350 double-spaced pp). Winner will receive book publication with the University of New Mexico Press and a $1,000 honorarium. Submission period is August 1 - October 30.
4. Wildhouse Publishing, highlighted in a recent Bookish post with acquisitions editor, novelist, and DePaul professor Rebecca Johns, has extended its deadline for their inaugural fiction book contest through today, Monday, October 7.
Below is this month’s list of agents accepting queries. A preview of last month’s is accessible here. Agent lists are paywalled, but most other posts are freely available.
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