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.
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…
Douglas & McIntyre’s Anna Comfort O’Keefe has acquired Canadian rights to Rachel Phan’s THAT ASIAN GIRL IS A PROBLEM. The essay collection is described as a fearless gut-punch that confronts…
Foreign rights: Shyam Selvadurai’s FUNNY BOY to Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo (Slovenia), by Nada Perisic at PLIMA, and to Two Shores Press (Tamil), on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood…
Home page photograph: “Buckwheat Qwerty,” © Peter Powning, 2007.
Reproduced with permission of the artist.