Pitch Prize Winners 2023

Pitch Prize Winners 2023

Thursday, November 30, 2023

We are delighted to reveal the winners of the BPA Pitch Prize 2023. This year we saw many stories depicting art forgery, unreliable narrators, and the ways artificial intelligence may intrude deeper into our intimate lives… Our judge, literary agent Millie...
Ask an Agent: Olivia Maidment from Madeleine Milburn

Ask an Agent: Olivia Maidment from Madeleine Milburn

Monday, October 9, 2023

Olivia Maidment joined the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency in 2020. Previously, she worked with award-winning authors and global literary brands during her time at The Blair Partnership and United Agents. As well as representing a list of literary, upmarket and book...

2023 BPA First Novel Award Winners

Monday, October 2, 2023

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2023 First Novel Award Longlist

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]We are thrilled to announce the BPA First Novel Award 2023 Longlist. This year’s judges are literary agents Eve White and Ludo Cinelli from the Eve White Literary Agency and author Luan Goldie...
Escapism in Fiction: What is escapist fiction and how do you write it?

Escapism in Fiction: What is escapist fiction and how do you write it?

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

‘Escapism’ is one of the publishing industry’s favourite buzz words at the moment, and we’ve heard many literary agents using it when recounting their chats with publishers at the London Book Fair 2023. It seems a lot of commissioning editors, and therefore agents,...