*Charlotte is not currently accepting new submissions*

Charlotte Seymour studied French & Italian, and began her career in publishing as a literary scout at Eccles Fisher Associates, before becoming an agent at Andrew Nurnberg Associates in 2015. In 2022 she joined Johnson & Alcock, where she continues to build a list across fiction and non fiction. 

Charlotte represents authors based across the UK and internationally, from New Zealand to Nigeria, whose works have been Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers, and won or been nominated for prizes including the Goldsmiths Prize, Northern Book Prize, Dublin Literary Award, White Review Short Story Prize, CWA daggers, National Book Awards (US) and PEN America Literary Awards, and international prizes including the Prix Goncourt and the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

In fiction, Charlotte looks for book club and literary fiction as well as outstanding character- and voice-driven crime, thriller and suspense. She loves writing that crosses boundaries, whether geographic or linguistic or in bringing a twist to a genre.

In non-fiction, she is interested in accessible, engaging writing on a range of subjects including popular science, social and cultural history, reportage, nature, the arts, food and cookery. She especially loves hybrid books, for example, when in a memoir, the personal is interwoven with a bigger story or subject.

Charlotte enjoys working editorially with her authors, bringing existing projects to fruition and helping come up with new ideas. As well as championing a few titles in translation every year, she is eager to see more submissions from new, original and underrepresented voices in English from around the world.

Charlotte was Secretary of the Association of Authors’ Agents 2019-2021 and a Bookseller Rising Star 2021. She has been a judge for the Caledonia Novel Award and the London Short Story Prize, and supports the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. See here for more about what Charlotte is working on and enjoys reading.

You can find Charlotte on Twitter at @ceseymour and on Instagram @charlotteseymour_books.