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Jessica Craig
Craig Literary

Craig Literary, founded by Jessica Craig in 2016, is a full-service literary agency representing diverse writers of fiction, non-fiction, and children's books. The agency grows out of Jessica Craig's 20+ years of experience as a top foreign rights agent and on her record as an effective international champion of high quality authors, from established names to outstanding debuts, and across genres in fiction and non-fiction.


years experience: 20
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
General fiction, Mystery, Suspense/thriller, Juvenile fiction, History, Travel, Children's books, Science, Speculative fiction, World literature, Creative Non-fiction
LEADING CLIENTS
Jack Cheng
Sulaiman Addonia
Zanib Mian
Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
The Fishermen (2015 Booker Prize Finalist) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019 Booker Prize Finalist) by Chigozie Obioma
In Every Mirror She's Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom (Sourcebooks, 2021)
See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng (Dial Books for Young Readers - Penguin, Winner of 2018 SCBWI Golden Kite Award)
Planet Omar middle-grade series by Zanib Mian (Putnam Books for Young Readers - Penguin)
Then the Fish Swallowed Him by Amir Ahmadi Arian (HarperVia, 2020)
MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
In Every Mirror She's Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom (Sourcebooks Landmark, 9/21)
Lessons In Love and Other Crimes by Elizabeth Chakrabarty (Indigo Press, 9/21)
Planet Omar: Epic Hero Flop by Zanib Mian (Hodder Children's, 7/21 and Putnam Books for Young Readers in North America)
Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers by Lina AlHathloul and Uma Mishra-Newbery, picture book illustrated by Rebecca Green (mineditionUS, 2/22)
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Email a query note describing your work and your background. Please do not paste in a sample of your manuscript. If I am interested in your query I will respond to request a sample. I do not have time to respond to every query and will only respond to queries that interest me, but if you do not hear back from me within one week after your initial query then feel free to check in. If I have requested a sample of your work or your complete manuscript, then please give me at least six – eight weeks to respond.