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Erin Clyburn

The last time the agent had an active listing on Duotrope, the agent was affiliated with Howland Literary, LLC (see other agents at this agency).

Permanently Closed: This agent is no longer accepting queries (December 2024). We provide the following information as an archive.

About

Prior to joining Howland Literary in 2022, Erin Clyburn was an associate agent with The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. She was the general manager and director of collection development for Turtleback Books, a distributor of books to the school and library market, and she has over a decade of experience in magazine publishing, having worked for brands including Food & Wine, Cooking Light, People, and Entertainment Weekly. She received her BA in English Literature from Mississippi State University and her MA in Children’s Literature from Hollins University. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her partner, Michael, and three unruly rabbits. Erin represents middle grade fiction, YA fiction, and adult fiction and nonfiction.

Country

United States

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In middle grade, Erin is looking for horror, mystery, grounded stories with a speculative element, magical realism/fabulism, big-hearted contemporary, & adventure stories. Middle grade favorites include The Riverman, Small Spaces, Ghost (The Track series), Hide and Seeker, Greenglass House, and The Canning Season. In YA fiction, she is looking for horror, mystery, thriller, grounded stories with a speculative element, magical realism/fabulism, Southern gothic, and rom-coms (heavy on the com). Young adult favorites include Clown in a Cornfield, Neverworld Wake, The Taking of Jake Livingston, Ace of Spaces, and The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. In adult fiction, she is looking for literary and upmarket projects in speculative fiction, horror, mystery, psychological thrillers, domestic thrillers, magical realism/fabulism, Southern gothic, and rom-coms. Adult favorites include Catherine House, Leave the World Behind, Long Division, The Scent Keeper, The Girl Before, Mexican Gothic, When No One Is Watching, Never Let Me Go, The Elementals, The Age of Miracles, Baby Teeth, and Every Bone a Prayer. She is also looking for commercial psychological and domestic thrillers in the vein of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell. An Alabamian with Louisiana roots, Erin is particularly interested in Southern literary and upmarket fiction from diverse voices in the above genres. Across the board, she gravitates toward lyrical writing and to works that are strange and genre-bendy. Send her your weirds.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults, Middle grades, Young adults.

Genres:

General Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Gothic, Magic Realism, Women's Fiction
Fantasy Subgenres: Fabulism, Magic Realism
Horror Open to all/most Subgenres
Mystery/Crime Open to all/most Subgenres
Suspense/Thriller Subgenres: Domestic Thriller, Psychological

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Humorous, Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: QueryTracker.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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In nonfiction, she's interested in intersectional perspectives and is looking for deeply researched narrative nonfiction and deep dives into topics including medicine, pop science, nature/environment, food and culinary history, and pop culture, specifically video games, music, and film/TV. She’d love to see nonfiction in the vein of The Radium Girls, Cultish, Hurts So Good, Tacky, Taste Makers, The Book of Eels, Hidden Valley Road, and Finding the Mother Tree.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Lifestyle: Cooking, Food and Drink.
Nature/Environment.
Place/Regions: Specific region.
Science.
Sports/Recreation: General, Adventure sports.

Submissions:

Method: QueryTracker.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026

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