Literary Agents and Publishers
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Gregory Messina
Gregory works at Linwood Messina Literary Agency, an all-purpose boutique agency in Paris. He and his team deftly represent the needs of authors, publishers and agencies in domestic and international publishing, as well as film and television.
Catherine Drayton
Many of Catherine's clients are published in multiple territories and sold for film. Representing Inkwell Management New York, she particularly loves working with debut authors and is looking for writing that is memorable and enduring.
Hannah Schofield
Winner of the 2022 RNA Agent of the Year award, she is on the Bridge Committee for early-career agents at the Association of Authors' Agents. She joined LBA Literary Agency in 2018 and is building a list of commercial and reading-group fiction, and select non-fiction.
Kate Hordern
Kate Hordern worked for the then independent general trade publisher Victor Gollancz in London for fourteen years, selling foreign rights. After relocating to Bristol, she founded Kate Hordern Literary Agency (KHLA) in 1999 and works alongside a team of dedicated agents.
Benython Oldfield
Sydney-based Director of Zeitgeist Agency, Benython originally trained as a journalist. He began his publishing life at Random House in the 1990s, and moved on since to co-found his own publishing house.
Samuel Bernard
Samuel is a freelance writer, critic, and editor who joined Zeitgeist as a Literary Agent in 2023. He writes for Good Reading Magazine, Australian Book Review and Backstory Journal, among many more publications.