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P.S. Literary Agency
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📚💙 Representing a diverse list of internationally published, award-winning, bestselling & debut creators for over 20 years.

📍 U.S. & Canada

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To end the year, our clients have two highly anticipated titles coming your way!
"Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design." —Helen Keller
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
What do you wish you would have known when you first started writing?
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
“For 20 years, we’ve had the privilege of representing extraordinary authors and creators,” said PSLA cofounder Curtis Russell. “This scholarship is our way of paying it forward—helping to nurture the voices that will shape the next 20 yrs of storytelling.”

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief...
P.S. Literary Launches Writers Scholarship
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the agency has launched its Emerging Writers Scholarship, which offers $1,000 and one-on-one mentorship to support unpublished and underrepresented writers. The...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Send me dark retellings of fairy tales and classic stories, with similar sensibilities to THE BLOODY CHAMBER by Angela Carter or WICKED by Gregory Maguire."
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sxifn5ckgc2bghswuzh2mwfs" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@mariavicente.com #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." —P.G. Wodehouse
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"P.S. Literary Agency is capping off a month-long celebration of its 20-year anniversary with the announcement of a new scholarship for emerging writers." - @quillandquire.bsky.social

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P.S. Literary Agency launches emerging writers scholarship - Quill and Quire
The PSLA Emerging Writers Scholarship includes $1,000 to help cover writing-related expenses and a one-on-one mentorship with a literary agent.
quillandquire.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"I want unlikely friendship novels with heavy plot and a feel-good ending."
Carly Watters #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The wait is over for AT WHIT'S END, the 4th in the bestselling Wells Ranch series by Bailey Hannah.

A single mom struggling to raise her rebellious son finds support in a kind cowboy in this spicy romance.

Get it!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804169/at-whits-end-by-bailey-hannah/
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Have you ever learned something while researching a writing project that significantly changed your life?
December 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Literary fiction & poetry are real marginalized right now. The audience only wants to go this deep, but if an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people." —David Foster Wallace
December 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Imagine that you're having dinner with your favorite fictional character. What's on your plate?
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
TEN THOUSAND LIGHTYEARS FROM OK by Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman is out now! 👏👏

After Thea's husband's tragic death mirrors a plotline in her debut novel, she fears that anything she writes could come true again!

https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Thousand-Light-Years-Okay/dp/1662531265/
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Mondays are for fresh starts. 🌟

What's your writing focus this week? Share your goals and let's inspire each other to chase our literary dreams.
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In honor of our anniversary, we’re proud to launch the PSLA Emerging Writers Scholarship — supporting unpublished and underrepresented writers at the start of their journey. 💙 #PSLA20

Applications open Monday, January 5th, 2026.
https://form.jotform.com/202746305642048
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
To end the year, our clients have two highly anticipated titles coming your way!
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"I want crime fiction like Louise Penny, Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich."
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s7amqf5ur7da7xccwt46sxca" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@curtisrussell.bsky.social #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
What’s a book you couldn't put down?
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Send me history, business, politics, current affairs, memoir."
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s7amqf5ur7da7xccwt46sxca" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@curtisrussell.bsky.social #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
November 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him." —Washington Irving
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Hearing this type of feedback from our clients is what keeps us going even after 20 years! We truly cherish the relationship we've built with <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4deqo6gpeuxkr647u3etc6ds" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@sammaggs.bsky.social

"PS Literary changed my life! <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sxifn5ckgc2bghswuzh2mwfs" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@mariavicente.com and the team took a chance on me when I barely believed in myself."
—Sam Maggs

#PSLA20
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Send me nonfiction by BIPOC food writers."
Carly Watters #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
What's the single best piece of reader feedback you've ever received?
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down - revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper." —Erica Jong
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you." —Flannery O'Connor
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Have you ever been given a book as a gift that changed you as a person?
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM