Isobel Dixon An agent with Blake Friedmann Literary Agency (see other agents at this agency). About Isobel Dixon is MD and Head of Books at the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency, where she represents writers from around the world, among them Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers and international prize winners. Her interests are wide-ranging and her clients' work includes contemporary, historical and literary fiction, crime and thrillers, memoir, biography and narrative history. Authors on her list have, among others, won the Costa Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Caine Prize, Commonwealth and PEN Awards, the Barry Award, the OCM Bocas Prize and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, the Author's Club First Book Award, the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Prize). Writers on her list have also won all the major South African literary awards.Isobel was born and educated in South Africa, and in Edinburgh where she completed Master's degrees in English Literature and Applied Linguistics. Her debut poetry collection Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001) won the Sanlam and the Olive Schreiner Prizes in South Africa. Her further collections, A Fold in the Map and The Tempest Prognosticator, originally published by Salt, were both republished by Nine Arches in 2018. Bearings was published by Modjaji in South Africa and Nine Arches in the UK (April 2016) and Mariscat published a pamphlet The Leonids (August 2016). Nine Arches published her latest collection, A Whistling of Birds (with 12 illustrations by Douglast Robertson), in 2023. Nine Arches will publish her next collection, The Landing, in 2026.She is President of BTBS The Book Trade Charity and was a Trustee of the National Centre for Writing in Norwich and on the Board of Poetry London. She was President of the Association of Authors' Agents in 2020 and 2021. She is a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow and often gives workshops on creative writing, agenting and negotiation, and speaks on panels at literary events, to university students, schools and to writers' groups. This agent may not respond to all queries. After waiting 56 days, assume your submission will not be accepted. Country of Publication United Kingdom Professional Associations Member of AAA AI Policy Human-created work only; no AI use allowed Collapse section Fiction Open Audience:Open to a broad Audience.Genres: General Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Historical Mystery/Crime Open to all/most Subgenres Suspense/Thriller Open to all/most SubgenresLengths: NovelStyles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream, Minimalist.Topics: Open to all/most Topics.Submissions:Method: Email. Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Collapse section Nonfiction Open Audience:Open to a broad Audience.Lengths: BookStyles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream, Personal.Topics: Open to all/most Topics including... History: General, Biographies. Memoir. Society/Culture: General, Current events.Submissions:Method: Email. Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary. Go to agent's webpage Report: Submission/Query Correction/Update New Cover ArtSocial:Facebook FacebookInstagram @blakefriedmannliteraryagencyThreads @blakefriedmannliteraryagencyX (Twitter) @BlakeFriedmann For the Agent: Request Interview Duosuma Submission Manager Link to Duotrope Agent Impersonation Scams are becoming commonplace.A legitimate agent will not contact you and request money to represent you. Never pay an agent an up-front fee. That is not how literary agent representation works. 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