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Agents
Canada
Johanna M. Bates Literary Consultants
Inc.
171 Somme Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta, T2T 5J8
(403)282-7370
Email – query@telusplanet.net
Agent – Joanna M. Bates and Wendy Lukasiewicz
Submissions – will consider unsolicited book proposals, all genres, with
author overview and career plan.
Web site – www.batesliterary.com
The Bukowski
Agency
14 Prince Arthur Avenue, Suite 202
Toronto, Ontario
M5R 1A9
(416) 928-6728
Email – assistant@thebukowskiagency.com
Established: 1986
Agent: Denise Bukowski, Jackie Joiner
Submissions – for fiction, send entire manuscript; for non-fiction, send
detailed proposal
Web site – www.thebukowskiagency.com
Writers: Wayson Choy, Catherine Bush, Austin
Clarke, Annabel Lyon, Lynn Coady, Susan Musgrave,
Evelyn Lau, Anosh Irani,
Lawrence Hill, Eden Robinson, David Bergen, George Bowering, Rebecca Eckler
Melanie Colbert
17 West Street
Holland Landing, Ontario L9N 1L4
(905) 853-2435
Established: 1985 (formerly book packager)
Agent: Melanie Colbert
Submissions: unsolicited queries only, no mss; only children's
authors and illustrators.
The Helen Heller Agency Inc.
32 Bayhampton Court, Toronto, ON, M3H 5L6
Established: 1988
Agents: Helen Heller: 416-631-6875
Daphne Hart, Non-fiction: 416-461-5920
Sarah Heller: 416-631-0968
Submissions – queries only, commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction;
no unsoliciteds
Web site – www.helenhelleragency.com
Writers – Christy Ann Conlon, Cynthia Flood, Katherine Govier,
John Machlachlan Gray, Sarah Hampson,
John Bentley Mays, David McFadden
The Cooke Agency Inc.
278 Bloor Street East, Suite 305
Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3M4
(416) 406-3390
Email – agents@cookeagency.ca
Established: 1992
Agents – Dean Cooke, Samantha North
Submissions: unsolicited queries only, no mss.
Writers – Timothy Taylor, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Steven
Hayward
Anne Mcdermid And
Associates Ltd.
92 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1C8
(416) 324-8845
Fax: 416-324-8870
Email – info@mcdermidagency.com
Literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction. No children's literature.
Submissions – submit written application and sample writing with SASE (No
electronic submissions.)
Web site – www.mcdermidagency.com
Writers: Nancy Lee (UBC), Laisha Rosnau (UBC), Adam Lewis Schroeder, Andrew Pyper, Lee Henderson, Nino Ricci, Camilla Gibb, Kevin
Patterson (UBC)
The Pamela Paul Agency Inc.
12 Westrose Ave.
Toronto, Ontario, M8X 1Z9
(416) 410-5395
Email – agency@interlog.com
Established: 1989
Agent: Pamela Paul
Film and TV writers and directors, film rights, children's fiction, literary fiction,
playwrights.
Submissions – unsolicited queries only, no mss.
The Rights Factory
Agents – Sam Hiyate, Christos
Grivas
Submissions – not currently accepting unsolicited material
Web site – http://www.therightsfactory.com/
Beverley Slopen
Literary Agency
#711, 131 Bloor Street W.
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1S3
(416) 964-9598
Established: 1972
Agent: Beverley Slopen
Submissions – no unsoliciteds; tends not to handle
illustrated or children's manuscripts.
Web site – www.slopenagency.ca
Guidelines – http://www.slopenagency.ca/subs.html
Writers – Donna Morrissey, Bonnie Buxton, John Ballem, Howard Engels, Robert Fulford, Morley Torgov,
Seventh Avenue Literary Agency
1663 West 7th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6J 1S4
604-734-3663
Principal agent – Robert Mackwood
Web site – www.seventhavenuelit.com
Guidelines – http://www.seventhavenuelit.com/submissions.html
Writers – Ian Mulgrew, Jim Christy, Derrick de Kerckhove, Margaret Gunning
Carolyn Swayze
Literary Agency
WRPO P.O. Box 39588
White Rock, B.C., V4B 5L6
(604) 538-3478
Email – cswayze@direct.ca
Established: 1993
Agents: Carolyn N. Swayze, Lesley Owen
Submissions – unsolicited queries only, no mss. Submit query by mail with
resume, brief synopsis of available work, first few chapters and SASE. Full
proposal required for non-fiction
Web site – www.swayzeagency.com
Guidelines – http://www.swayzeagency.com/submissions.html
Writers – Shannon Cowan (UBC), Andrew Gray (UBC), Will Ferguson, Steven
Galloway (UBC), Richard van Camp (UBC), Daniel Wood, Miriam Toews, Michael V. Smith (UBC), W.P. Kinsella,
Aislinn Hunter, Bill Gaston
Transatlantic Literary Agency (Tla)
72 Glengowan Road.
Toronto, ON, M4N 1G4
416-488-9214
Principal Agent: David Bennett, Lynn Bennett, Don Sedgwick, Margaret Hart,
Shaun Bradley, Samantha Heywood
Submissions – no unsoliciteds
Web site – www.tla1.com
Guidelines (by agent) – http://www.tla1.com/Submissions.htm
Writers – Nancy Mauro (MFA), Alan Twigg, Paul Quarrington, Marq de Villiers
Westwood Creative Artists
94 Harbord Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1G6
(416) 964-3302
Established: 1995 (incorporating Sterling Lord & Lucinda Vardey agencies, established 15+ years)
Agents – Bruce Westwood, Linda McKnight, Hilary McMahon, Jan Whitford, Sally
Catto, Jackie Kaiser
Submissions – unsolicited queries only, no mss.
Writers – Joseph Boyden, Ken Wiwa
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