Curtis Brown (Australia) Pty Ltd.
Literary Agents
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Welcome to Curtis Brown

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.

News

Congratulations to Tom Keneally for being shortlisted for for the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Awards for his novel The Widow and Her Hero.

The longlist for the second annual Inkys -Teen Choice Book Awards - was announced on 1 August at the State Library of Victoria. Created by the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature, the Inkys are the only teen choice book awards in Australia. The Golden Inky (which earns the winner $2000 and a trophy) is given for an Australian book, and the Silver Inky trophy is for an international title. Congratulations to the following authors for their nominations:

Game As Ned, Tim Pegler (HarperCollins)

Joel & Cat Set the Story Straight,  Nick Earls & Rebecca Sparrow (Penguin)

Announced at Byron Bay Writers Festival, Vivienne Kelly is the winner of this year’s Australian Women’s Weekly/Penguin national short story competition for her story, ‘The Third Child’. The story will appear in the November AWW issue, and Vivienne’s first novel, Cooee, will be published by Scribe later this year.

Also in the Australian Women’s Weekly/Penguin national short story competition, Meg Mundell was announced as a finalist for her story, ‘Nightshade’. Meg is completing her first novel, ‘Black Glass’.

 Congratulations to Monica McInerney for taking home the award for General Fiction Book of the Year for Those Faraday Girls (Penguin) at this year's ABIA Awards.

The longlists for the 2008 Ned Kelly Awards as presented by The Crime Writers Association of Australia have been announced.   Congratulations to the following authors for their nomination:

Skin & Bone, Kathryn Fox (Pan Macmillan)

Shattered, Gabrielle Lord (Hachette Livre Australia)

Game as Ned, Tim Pegler (HarperCollins)

Congratulation to Melanie La’Brooy for being a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia's 2008 Romantic Book of the Year awards for her novel Serendipity.

The shortlist for this year's Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards was announced Tuesday 1st April.  Congratulations to Pamela Allen for her nomination for Book of the Year: Early Childhood for Shhh! Little Mouse and to David Metzenthen for his nomination for Book of the Year: Older Readers for Black Water

Congratulations to the following authors who also made it on to the Children's Book Council of Australia notable list: Justin D'Ath, Nick Earls and Rebecca Sparrow, Tim Pegler, Gillian Bouras, Kate Forsyth, Richard Frankland, Libby Gleeson, L.M. Moriarty, Chris McKimmie, Freya Blackwood and Sally Rippin.