Anne McDermid & Associates - About

Anne McDermid founded this agency in Toronto in January 1996. She had previously been a senior partner in the distinguished British agency Curtis Brown for several years. The agency represents literary novelists and commercial novelists of high quality, and also writers of non-fiction in the areas of memoir, biography, history, literary travel, narrative science, and investigative journalism. We find that our newer clients are interested in pursuing markets via the Internet as well as through the traditional publishing methods, and so we are active in advising our clients to use websites, blogs, and other various visual material. The agency also includes two associate agents, Martha Magor and Vanessa Matthews.

Lise Henderson, Anne McDermid’s associate on the West Coast, represents children’s and young adult writing, as well as literary fiction and non-fiction, and graphic novels. For more info about Lise, please click here.

Our clients include Michael Crummey, Peter Darbyshire, Camilla Gibb, Sheila Heti, Greg Hollingshead, Vincent Lam, Pasha Malla, Heather Pringle, Andrew Pyper, Nino Ricci, David Adams Richards, Russell Smith, and Michael Winter. Our writers have been nominees and winners of many literary prizes including the Governor General’s Award, the Giller Prize, the Charles Taylor Prize for narrative non-fiction, the Orange Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award, and the Commonwealth Prize.

In 2006, agent Amy Moore-Benson moved her agency to 83 Willcocks Street, where she shares services and associates with Anne. After a long career as an editor at Harlequin, she now represents commercial authors for her agency, AMB Literary Management, such as Alex Kava and Rick Mofina. To learn more about AMB Literary management, please click here.

We sell British and American rights directly but use our foreign rights associate for translation rights. For more info on our rights associate, click here. We also use associates for film and television rights in Canada and internationally.

We charge no reading fees. For submission guidelines, please click here.

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