Jenny Hewson on her role as a literary agent, looking for a distinctive voice and how rejection is often part of the process

Update: 2021-02-17

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Jenny Hewson is a literary agent based in London. She worked for 13 years as an agent at one of England’s best agencies, Rogers Coleridge and White or RCW as it’s known, representing authors across fiction and non-fiction. A year ago she joined the prestigious Lutyens & Rubinstein agency, bringing her list of authors with her, including Sarah Perry, Melissa Harrison, Amy Sackville and Alexander Macleod.
Lutyens and Rubinstein was the first literary agency to own an independent bookshop when they opened their doors in Notting Hill in 2009. The bookshop itself has a beautifully curated selection which makes it a pleasure to browse – and of course having a bookshop means the agents can witness the appetite of readers daily.

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Jenny Hewson on her role as a literary agent, looking for a distinctive voice and how rejection is often part of the process

Jemma Birrell, Jenny Hewson

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Jenny Hewson on her role as a literary agent, looking for a distinctive voice and how rejection is often part of the process

Jemma Birrell, Jenny Hewson

Jenny Hewson on her role as a literary agent, looking for a distinctive voice and how rejection is often part of the process