Keelie Hawk

Kathleen Jamie

City of Silk

Glennis Virgo

Swimming Wild Ireland

Anna Deacon and Vicky
Allan

Seal on the Beach

Illustrator Brita Granstrom (by Mara Bergman)

The List

Keith Gray

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We are delighted to announce that we are again running the Jenny Brown Associates Debut Writers Over 50 Award in 2025.
This is the second Award, established to address the few literary opportunities which help older writers break into the publishing industry. The Award was first run in 2023 and won by Glennis Virgo, selected from over 1700 entries. Glennis Virgo’s debut novel City of Silk is published in November by Allison & Busby.

Debut novelists based in the UK are invited to submit the first 5000 words of their novel during the month of February 2025 – deadline February 28 – a shortlist will be announced on 27 July and the winner revealed during the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 23 August 2025.

The winner will receive £1000 cash prize, and a week’s course at Moniack Mhor Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre. Runners up will be offered tailored mentoring. Full details of the Award and how to enter can be found HERE.

November has Book Week Scotland (18-24th) with twelve events from our fantastic authors across the whole week. This month, our writers’ events span from London (for Flora Johnston’s paperback launch and Malachy Tallack’s launch in the Trafalgar Square Waterstones) all the way to the highlands
for Mallaig Book Festival (organised by Polly Pullar). We have the Pentlands Book Festival, St Andrews Book Festival (London), Cove and Kilcreggan Book Festival, AND end our month with more musical launch events for Malachy Tallack.

Click here for the calendar & tickets for our writers’ events in November.

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Submissions

How to submit your work

We love reading new work but, as a small agency, we can only consider submissions at certain points of the year.

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International rights

We sell translation rights directly to publishers throughout the world for fiction and non-fiction titles via our network of sub-agents and relationships with literary scouts.

We have secured deals in more than 20 languages into established markets such as Germany, Spain, France, Holland, Italy, and Scandinavia, as well as emerging markets including China and Korea.

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About us

Founded in 2002, Jenny Brown Associates is the leading agency in Scotland and one of the foremost independent literary agencies in the UK.