How to Get Published, Agent and Editor Panel Discussion

A panel discussion with 5 UK agents, publishers and editors answering all of your burning questions about how to get your writing out there. The panel includes Donald Winchester and Megan Carroll from London based literary agency Watson, Little; Una McCormack, best-selling sci-fi author and editor; Dan Coxon award-winning editor and short fiction writer; Wendy Pratt, poet, prose-writer and poetry editor. Introduced by Abi Curtis, Professor of Creative Writing.

Megan Carroll graduated from Goldsmiths with a BA in English and American Literature in 2013 and has worked at the agency since 2014, first as the assistant and now as a Literary Agent. Megan is looking for writers in a variety of areas, and from a wide range of backgrounds – she is particularly keen to hear from Black, Asian, and LGBTQIA+ writers across all genres. Her list is predominantly commercial – good quality books that will appeal to lots of readers - and spans women’s fiction, upmarket fiction, MG and YA, as well as select non-fiction for adults and young readers.

Donald Winchester: After splitting his childhood between Edinburgh, Ohio, and Watford, Donald studied English Literature and History at Queen Mary, University of London and University College London. He worked at Penguin Press and A P Watt before joining Watson, Little as an agent in 2013. He was the Secretary of the Association of Authors’ Agents (AAA) from 2017-19. He is also a member of the Association of Scottish Literary Agents (ASLA). He currently splits his time between Scotland and London.
Donald is interested in literary, upmarket, and well-written commercial fiction, particularly debut authors, as well as memoir. In non-fiction, he is keen to see writing on history, popular science, social issues, nature, music, sport, film and technology.

Wendy Pratt is a poet, author, editor and workshop facilitator living and working on the
North Yorkshire coast. She is the author of five collections of poetry.
Her collection When I Think of My Body as a Horse won the Poetry Business Book
and Pamphlet award in 2021. She is the founder and editor in chief of Spelt Magazine
and runs online courses and workshops. Her Nan Shepherd prize longlisted nature memoir,
The Ghost Lake, is published by The Borough Press at Harper Collins.

Dr Una McCormack is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling science fiction writer whose has written more than twenty novels based on TV shows such as Star Trek, Doctor Who and Firefly. She is on the editorial board of Gold SF, an imprint of Goldsmiths Press aimed at publishing new voices in intersectional feminist science fiction. An associate fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge, her academic interests include feminist science fiction, transformative works, and creative writing practice and methodology; she writes and broadcasts regularly on these and other topics.

Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. His non-fiction anthology Writing The Uncanny (co-edited with Richard V. Hirst) won the British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction 2022. His anthology This Dreaming Isle was shortlisted for both a Shirley Jackson Award and a British Fantasy Award. His non-fiction has appeared everywhere from Salon to The Guardian, and a collection of his short fiction, Only The Broken Remain, was published by Black Shuck Books in November 2020.

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