Greyhound Literary

Submissions

What Are Greyhound Literary Agents Looking For?

Our agents each have their own tastes and interests, so please look at our profile pages and client lists which can be found via the links at the bottom of this page. Between us, we welcome submissions to Greyhound Literary in the following areas: fiction, both commercial and literary; non-fiction, in particular biography, cookery, history, popular science, big ideas, humour, memoir, music, politics, sport and wellbeing and lifestyle; and children’s fiction and non-fiction. 

Take a look at our tips for writers querying agents on our blog

How to Submit

  • FICTION: send a cover letter with a pitch briefly introducing yourself and your work, in the body of an email, together with the first three chapters of your novel and a synopsis as attachments.
  • NON-FICTION: send a cover letter with a pitch briefly introducing yourself and your work, in the body of an email. You should attach a proposal outlining your book and explaining why you are best-placed to write it, along with some sample writing from it.
  • CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS: send a cover email briefly introducing yourself and your work, and attach the full manuscript and sample illustrations (if you are also the illustrator for the book).

Please remember to look at our agent profile pages before deciding which one of us should receive your work. If we think that it might be better suited to a colleague we will share it with them, so please do not submit to more than one of us.

Guidelines: please read before submitting

Your submission should be emailed directly (and only) to the agent you wish to approach.

You can find each Greyhound Literary agent’s email address on their full profile page.

Please do not send submissions to Greyhound Literary by post. We discard any physical submissions without review and cannot respond to them.

We aim to respond to submissions within 6-8 weeks of receipt but regret that it is not always possible to reply to everyone, due to the volume that we receive.

If you are based in an English-speaking country outside the UK or the Republic of Ireland in which there are well-established literary agencies, we would expect you to have a convincing reason for wanting to be represented by an agency in the UK.

We do not handle screenplays and will not consider, or respond to, submissions of this type of work.

Our agents

Charlotte Atyeo - Agent at Greyhound Literary

Charlotte Atyeo

Agent
Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children's Books
Charlotte Atyeo
Salma Begum - Agent at Greyhound Literary

Salma Begum

Agent
Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry
Salma Begum
Maria Brannan - Agent, Translation Rights Manager at Greyhound Literary

Maria Brannan

Agent, Translation Rights Manager
Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult
Maria Brannan
Charlie Campbell - Founder & director at Greyhound Literary

Charlie Campbell

Founder & director
Fiction, Non-Fiction
Charlie Campbell
Alexander Cochran - Agent at Greyhound Literary

Alexander Cochran

Agent
Fiction, Non-Fiction
Alexander Cochran
Sam Edenborough - Rights director, Agent at Greyhound Literary

Sam Edenborough

Rights director, Agent
Fiction, Non-Fiction
Sam Edenborough
Natalie Galustian - Agent at Greyhound Literary

Natalie Galustian

Agent
Fiction, Non-Fiction
Natalie Galustian
Dotti Irving - Agent at Greyhound Literary

Dotti Irving

Agent
Fiction, Non-Fiction
Dotti Irving
Philip Gwyn Jones - Agent at Greyhound Literary

Philip Gwyn Jones

Agent
Fiction, Non-Fiction
Philip Gwyn Jones
Julia Silk - Agent at Greyhound Literary

Julia Silk

Agent
Fiction, Non-Fiction
Julia Silk