Cooke McDermid Literary Management

About this Agency

CookeMcDermid was founded in 2017 when two preeminent literary agencies, The Cooke Agency and The McDermid Agency, amalgamated, combining nearly 50 years of experience. We are a full-service literary agency representing authors of literary, commercial and speculative fiction; a broad range of narrative non-fiction; health, wellness and lifestyle resources; and middle-grade and young adult books. Our writers have been nominated for and won many literary prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the IMPAC, the Writers' Trust Awards, the RBC Taylor Prize for narrative non-fiction, the (formerly named) Orange Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, the Stephen Leacock Medal, the Forest of Reading Awards, the National Business Book Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Nebula Awards, and the Commonwealth Prize. Their books have been adapted into major motion pictures and translated into over 40 territories. We sell Canadian and American rights directly.