Curtis Brown is Australia’s oldest and largest literary agency and represents a diverse range of Australian and New Zealand writers.

On this site you will find information about our agency, how we operate, how to submit material to us, and selected clients and Estates represented.

Our Sydney office is open 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. We prefer initial contact to be by email or phone.

The following Curtis Brown clients have been shortlisted in the 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards:

Alice McCormick and Sarah Rhodes The Artist's Lunch for Illustrated Book of the Year
Kim Kane Pip: The Story of Olive for Book of the Year for Older Children (8-14 years)
Christos Tsiolkas The Slap for Literary Fiction Book of the Year and Book of the Year
Monica McInerney All Together Now for General Fiction Book of the Year
Congratulations and best of luck to our authors.

Claire Thomas has won this year’s Dobbie Literary Award with her debut novel, Fugitive Blue. Congratulations Claire.

Maggie Alderson's How to Break Your Own Heart and Bronwyn Parry's As Darkness Falls are both finalists in the Romance Writers of Australia 2009 R*BY Awards. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Christos Tsiolkas for the many short-listings of his novel The Slap.  These include the the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 (to be announced on 18th June) and the ALS Gold Medal, Australia's oldest literary award (to be announced at the ASAL conference at the Australian National University in July).  This novel has already won the this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize (SE Asia/Pacific region)

Congratulations to Julia Rollings (Love Our Way) for winning the ACT Barnardos Mother of the Year Award

Congratulations to Tohby Riddle (Nobody Owns the Moon and with Ursula Dubosarsky for The Word Spy) and Chris McKimmie (Special Kev) for being shortlisted for this year's Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards.  The winners of the awards will be announced on Friday 21 August, at the beginning of Children's Book Week, which runs from 22 to 28 August, 2009, under the them ‘Book Safari'.

Congratulations to Sarah Rhodes and Alice McCormick for their book The Artist's Lunch being short-listed for the APA Book Design Award 2009 for The Best Designed Cover and The Best Designed General Illustrated Book. 

Congratulations to Jessica White for A Curious Intimacy and Thomas Keneally for The Widow and her Hero being nominated in the International IMPAC Dublin  Literary Awards.