Westwood Creative Artists is one of Canada’s oldest and most respected literary agencies. Situated in Toronto’s Huron-Sussex neighbourhood, housed in the historic Chelsea Shop, our staff of eleven includes six full-time book agents who are supported by an in-house international rights agent and an outstanding network of twenty-four international co-agents. We take great pride in the enthusiastic response to our list from publishers around the world and in the wide praise our writers receive from Canadian and international critics. We are honoured that many of the writers we represent have won and been shortlisted for such esteemed prizes as the Man Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Film/TV: Producer Robert B. Vink at Vink International Productions has optioned the audiovisual rights to the 26th Governor General of Canada, The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson’s book EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS: NORMAN…
Lauren McKeon from HarperCollins Canada has acquired World rights to Jennifer Kingsley and Teuatakiri Tua Pittman’s STAR COMPASS, from Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists. This book takes readers inside the comeback…
Westwood Creative Artists, one of Canada’s largest literary agencies representing more than 400 writers, is looking for a candidate to fill a full-time hybrid or remote 6-week internship position, beginning…
Home page photograph: “Buckwheat Qwerty,” © Peter Powning, 2007.
Reproduced with permission of the artist.