PUBLISH'D AFRIKA

Has it always been your wish to see your work published overseas, specifically in the United States and the United Kingdom? How about in Australia, Germany, Canada, Spain, New Zealand and United Arab Emirates?

While in Africa, authors submit directly to publishers, in countries such as the US, the UK, Canada and other parts of Europe, an author has to be represented by a literary agent and cannot approach a publisher directly. Below is a list of reputable agents who represent African authors across the globe.

The Wylie Agency

Represents over 800 authors of fiction and nonfiction worldwide, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Binyavanga Wainaina, Helen Oyeyemi, Elif Batuman, Martin Amis, NoViolet Bulawayo, Teju Cole, Geoff Dyer, Taiye Selasi, John Updike, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Salman Rushdie, and the Estates of Chinua Achebe, Roberto Bolaño, Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov, Jose Saramago, and Susan Sontag, among many others.

Email: mail@wylieagency.com (NY) or mail@wylieagency.co.uk (UK)

Phone: 212 246 0069 (NY) or +44 020 7908 5900 (UK)

Veronique Baxter

Email: veroniquebaxter@davidhigham.co.uk

Phone: N/A

Seeking: Interested in literary fiction, children’s writing and thought-provoking non-fiction of all kinds.

Carole Blake

Email: carole@blakefriedmann.co.uk

Phone: 020 7387 0842

Seeking: Represents good quality commercial and literary fiction, contemporary and historical. She works almost exclusively with novelists, but does not handle science fiction, fantasy, horror or juvenile material.

Isobel Dixon

Email: Isobel@blakefriedmann.co.uk

Phone: 020 7387 0842

Seeking: Her interests are wide-ranging and her clients’ work includes literary fiction, crime and thrillers, young adult fiction, memoir, popular culture, biography, history and current affairs.

Angela Oguche Onoja

Email: Angela@websuccessboost.com|Ojochegbe55@gmail.com

Phone: 08053294569|08168036130

Seeking: interesting fiction for children and teens.

Lumina Literary Agency

Email: ogochukwupromise@yahoo.com (Ogochukwu Promise) |unomaazuah@gmail.com (Unoma Azuah)

Phone: N/A

Seeking: adult literary fiction, Children’s fiction, drama and poetry.

VAN AGGELEN – African Literary Agency

Email: africanliteraryagency@gmail.com.

Focus: African fiction and non-fiction books and high quality cook books.

A boutique literary agency, VAN AGGELEN – African Literary Agency only receive queries via email. They require you to send in a short synopsis (maximum 2 pages) and THREE chapters (recommend the first three, though the first and any other two are acceptable). If your chapters are short and you would like to submit more material, They are happy to look at the first 50 pages. All submissions should be printed out double spaced, on one side of an A4 page with at least 30mm margins.

Sarah Chalfant of The Wylie Agency

Email: schalfant@wylieagency.com (Does not accept email queries)

Phone: N/A

Works With: Women’s fiction, Paranormal romance, Horror, Historical fiction, Genre romance, Crime, thriller, action, General Fiction, Literary Fiction.

Jessica Woollard

Email: jessica@marsh-agency.co.uk / http://www.marsh-agency.co.uk/agents/jessicawoollard/

Phone: 020 7493 4361

Works With: strong issue based non-fiction, current affairs, politics, environment, narrative non-fiction, natural history, memoir.

To submit work to Jessica, use The Marsh Agency submissions page. She does not accept submissions sent by email.

Laura Boon Literary Agency

Email: No email submissions will be considered.

Seeks: stories that have a South African flavour but universal appeal. Specializes in mainstream fiction and memoirs but will consider manuscripts that fall outside of this definition, including children’s books. Will NOT accept poetry, short stories, and erotica.

How to submit: Post a one page covering letter; a one page synopsis and the first three chapters to the address below. And in a separate letter, indicate what kind of readers will enjoy your book.

Hand deliver to: Laura Boon, c/o The Write Co, 1st Floor, East Wing, Coral House, 20 Peter Place, Lyme Park, Bryanston, Sandton.

Or post to: Laura Boon, PO Box 783324, Sandton 2146. South Africa

The Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency, Inc.

Does not accept poetry, screenplays, sci-fi and horror. Submit a one-page query letter via e-mail to the respective agents below. The query letter should describe your work as well as your background. Please do not send attachments. However a first chapter pasted into the body of an e-mail query is acceptable. Do not submit to more than one agent at this agency.

. Aaron Priest

Email: querypriest@aaronpriest.com | http://www.aaronpriest.com/team.html#aaron

Seeks: Thrillers, commercial fiction, and biographies.

Lisa Erbach Vance

Email: queryvance@aaronpriest.com | http://www.aaronpriest.com/team.html#lisa

Seeks: Contemporary fiction, thrillers/suspense, international fiction, and narrative non-fiction.

Mitch Hoffman

Email: querychilds@aaronpriest.com | http://www.aaronpriest.com/team.html#mitch

Seeks: Thrillers, suspense, crime fiction, literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, politics, popular science, history, memoir, current events, and pop culture.

Lucy Childs

Email: qquerychilds@aaronpriest.com | http://www.aaronpriest.com/team.html#lucy

Seeks: Literary & commercial fiction, memoir, and edgy women’s fiction.

Melissa L. Edwards

Email: queryedwards@aaronpriest.com | http://www.aaronpriest.com/team.html#melissa

Seeks: Middle grade, young adult, women’s fiction, and thrillers.

Ayebia Clarke Literary Agency & Publishing Limited

Becky Ayebia Clarke, Ghanaian, set up Ayebia Clarke Literary Agency & Publishing Limited in 2003 with her husband David.

Email: info@ayebia.co.uk

Seeks: writing from established as well as budding new authors.

Contact Ayebia by email first before submitting any material for assessment. Send a synopsis, a short bio, a concise covering letter that includes your writing history, outlining the merits of the work that you wish to submit and why you think your work deserves to be published. Do not send the original copy of your manuscript.

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Are you ready to self-publish your book? PUBLISH’D AFRIKA can help you publish your book without the necessity of a huge capital spend.

Contact PUBLISH’D AFRIKA for all your editing, proofreading, ghostwriting and self-publishing needs.

Call / WhatsApp: +2783 487 4440

Alternative Contact: +2784 311 8838

Email: info@publishdafrika.com

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PUBLISH’D AFRIKA is a registered B-BBEE Level 1 company.

While the majority of Spoiling The Broth anthology contributors are aspiring authors, the short story collection is a melting pot of youth and experience with at least seven published authors.

Busisekile Khumalo, Hidayat Adams, Busisiwe I Ngwenya, Buhle Stuurman, Thubelihle Charles Ntombela, Anathi Kom and Zambian Isaac Kanyinji Jr lead the charge. Busisekile is the author of the acclaimed Harvard Series, Her Silent Screams and Fallen Candle, while Cape Town based author Hidayat Adams has published a collection of short stories titled Mhlobam and Other Stories. Anathi Kom is a product of PUBLISH’D AFRIKA’s Adopt-An-Author Program, while Kanyinji’s ebook was edited and published by PUBLISH’D AFRIKA. 

The PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Online Literary Magazine Short Story Competition was officially established in December 2021, and started operating in January 2022. We invite writers to submit short stories of between 1800 and 2500 words, under a theme we announce monthly. The stories are then posted on our Facebook page, and readers vote for the best story for the month. The story that obtains the most votes wins R500, while the PUBLISHER’S CHOICE AWARD is worthy a whooping R1000. The prizes are funded by the National Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture and the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme 3.

While the writers and their works are exposed to the 15000-plus following our page has amassed (new followers join the page daily), the stories are exposed to an even bigger audience as every writer is allowed to canvass for votes and advertise his or her story on various platforms, exposing the page to an even bigger audience monthly. The winners are then featured in our monthly issue of the PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Online Literary magazine, giving them further publicity and assisting them to build themselves as brands.

In-between, we offer mentoring programs, based on the areas we identified to be lacking in each writer’s work. Writing tips are also posted on the page regularly, as well as other worthy calls for submission from various other art and craft organisations.

Already, this mentoring program has produced published authors such as Anathi Kom, Zeripah Amoni Phiri and Matumelo Mafoko. All three were published by PUBLISH’D AFRIKA’s Adopt-An-Author Program.

While the competition has unearthed writers from every corner of the country, the PUBLISH’D AFRIKA Online Literary Magazine has gone a step further. Through the magazine, we have brought to the fore hidden talent from various parts of the country, that no one would have known about had the magazine not been established. We also invite established authors, artists and other established creatives to give tips on anything from writing, publishing, entrepreneurship (using your art as a business), building yourself into a brand etc.

People who have honoured our invites include American author Eve Fairbanks, Nhlanhla Ngema of Sarafina and Broadway’s The Lion King fame and founder of Keeloz Global Entertainment, and Kirsten Miller who won the prestigious international writing competition, the Niso Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for 2016. She is also the author of six books. We have also had the courageous Tshidi Monkoe, author of Prison Love, gracing our pages, best-selling authors Takalani M and Busisekile Khumalo, and poetry connoisseur Frank Meintjies.                                                           

You can pre-order the book from any of your favourite authors who are part of the anthology, or contact PUBLISH’D AFRIKA directly at info@publishdafrika.com, or WhatsApp +2784 311 8838.