The agents will explain how they work and what they're looking for; they'll answer questions. You'll also have the rare opportunity to meet one-on-one with an agent. Before and after your appointment, listen to veteran writers - Carol Page, Erik Sherman, Sarah Wernick, and others - talk frankly about their experiences with literary agents. They'll describe how they connected and what happened next, the agents they loved and the ones they left.
Admission is $50. Members of NWU and its partner organizations receive a $10 discount. NWU members
who volunteer to help at the event will receive a $10 rebate afterward.
Proceeds benefit NWU-Boston. All speakers are donating their services.
About the agents
Sorche Elizabeth Fairbank, Fairbank Literary Representation
Fairbank Literary Representation is a small selective agency in Harvard Square. Their clients range from first-time writers to international best-sellers, prize winning-journalists to professionals at the top of their fields. Tastes tend toward literary fiction and topical or narrative non-fiction, with a strong interest in women’s voices, class and race issues, war and its far-reaching psychological alteration of people and nation, and works addressing the meeting of art and science.
Jennifer Gates, Zachary Shuster Harmsworth
Jennifer Gates is an agency partner at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth. She's based in Northampton, Massachusetts, but frequently works out of the agency's New York office. As an agent, Gates represents both commercial and literary fiction as well as a range of nonfiction. Her nonfiction list includes current affairs, memoir, pop culture, psychology, narrative nonfiction, and history. She's
most interested in strong, distinctive voices and narratives, and projects that either look at the world in a new way or shed new light on familiar topics.
Jill Kneerim, Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson
Jill Kneerim is co-founder of Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson. The agency, which has offices in Boston and New York, is associated with a national law firm. They represent a wide range of writers, from New York Times best-selling novelists to Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, leading journalists, doctors, scholars, and authors of literary fiction. While Kneerim represents many authors who are at the peak of their publishing careers, she is also interested in cultivating the work of fresh voices, especially in narrative non-fiction.
Albert LaFarge, Albert LaFarge Literary Agency
The Albert LaFarge Literary Agency is based in Lexington,
Massachusetts and operates in association with the David Black Literary
Agency in New York. Narrative journalism and serious
nonfiction - biography, history, memoir, essay - are the core of their
business. Among LaFarge's clients are writers for leading magazines and newspapers, as well as professors at
prominent academic institutions. He also represents a few fiction
writers.
Colleen Mohyde, Doe Coover Agency
Colleen Mohyde has been a partner in the Doe Coover Agency in Boston for twelve years. There she represents an eclectic range of fiction and nonfiction. She is particularly interested in narrative nonfiction, history and biography, popular science, business and finance, how-to and self-help, politics and current affairs, and books on music and popular culture. Most of all, she looks for strong voices that she can help bring to a wider audience.
Dan O'Connell, The Wendy Strothman Agency
Dan O’Connell has worked in book publishing since 1985. He recently joined the Wendy Strothman Agency, which specializes in narrative non-fiction, memoir, history, science and nature, arts and culture, literary travel, current affairs, and some business; they also have a highly selective practice in literary fiction and children's literature. The Strothman Agency has recently been 
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