From Friday 3 May, we’ll be accepting submissions of literary fiction, commercial fiction including historical, crime and thriller fiction, romance fiction and non-fiction for a maximum of four short feedback sessions from Andrew James, literary agent and founder of FROG Literary Agency.

Andrew is offering to provide short feedback sessions by phone or video call on up to 4 submissions from LGBTQIA+ writers from underrepresented backgrounds based in the UK.

He is looking for: stories with a trans protagonist across literary, commercial and romance; historical fiction with queer characters; stories about the impact of Section 28; stories that explore the complexity of gay lives that are not solely focused on sex or AIDS; queer romance; experimental and inventive literary fiction; anything that takes an existing heteronormative trope/genre/story and queers it up.

In non-fiction, he is specifically looking for: narrative non-fiction; books by and for asexual, demisexual and pansexual people; ideas on the future of LGBTQIA+ rights/identities; lesbian memoir and anthologies; and hard-hitting books about gender identity.

Open to un-agented LGBTQIA+ writers based in the UK who are also from one or more backgrounds underrepresented in publishing. Black, Asian or Global Majority writers are particularly invited to submit.

Find out more here.

Deadline: 3 June 2024