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Victoria Jane Wells

An agent with HG Literary (see other agents at this agency).

About

Victoria Wells Arms began her publishing career as an editor and was founding Editorial Director at Bloomsbury USA Children's Books. She started her own literary agency, Wells Arms Literary in 2013, which was thrilled to join HG Literary in 2018.

Victoria represents authors of children's books for all ages, a few adult authors, and many talented picture book illustrators. Her clients include Charlotte Agell, E. D. Baker, Chris Barton, Miya T. Beck, Nora Shalaway Carpenter, Gail Donovan, Patrick Downes, Crescent Dragonwagon, David Macinnis Gill, Ben Gundersheimer, Liz Heinecke, Darcy Marks, Jamie Michalak, Sandra Nickel, Han Nolan, Sonia Patel, Marcella Pixley, Candice Ransom, Lizzy Rockwell, Susan L. Roth, Mitali Banerjee Ruths and many more. She also represents many clients formerly with the (now retired) Edite Kroll including the Estates of Shel Silverstein, Charlotte Zolotow, MB Goffstein, and Fatema Mernissi.

Victoria has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she continues to speak regularly about professional development in the publishing industry. She is a member of the AALA, PEN America, and SCBWI.

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Country & Year Established

United States
Agent since 2013

Professional Associations

Member of AALA

AI Policy

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Fiction Temp Closed

Audience:

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

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

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

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

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

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Dates

Last Updated: 23 Jul 2026

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