Send a Query to Katie Grimm at Curtis Brown, Ltd.

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I represent and am seeking voice-driven literary and upmarket fiction, narrative and creative non-fiction, and literary fiction for young adult and middle grade audiences. I’ll always be interested in the darker and weirder side of human history, previously under- or misrepresented experiences, and narratives that contribute to a larger cultural conversation.

While I love speculative elements or magical realism in my adult upmarket or literary fiction, I'm not looking for sci-fi or epic, high, or urban fantasy--in other words, of you don't see your genre in the drop down below, I'm not looking for it at this time.

So you know ahead of time, I've set my word count limits to 130k for Adult/YA and 100k for MG. I do not accept AI generated works and/or new queries from anyone with an outstanding query for me. If you have an update, feel free to withdraw your original and re-query.

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