“Send me your commercial/upmarket romcoms with exes who cohabitate/co-parent--but where it’s not the exes who get together.” @readbystephanie #MSWL psliterary.com/submissions/

And more! Send me your lyrical, off-kilter, boundary-exploring books.

As a note, @HowlandLit is now fully moving to QueryManager, and you can find my link on our website!

Bonus round for favorites: Patti Smith, Girls Can Kiss Now, Lot: Stories, Heavy, Swamplandia!, Sadness is a White Bird, Kevin Wilson’s “A Room at Madame Terreur’s,” Pam Houston, Binchtopia podcast, Troop Zero, Empire Records, 1970s rock, Jacqueline Woodson, Ali Smith.

In nonfiction, I’d love to see writing about the relationships between people and their places, and CNF that blends research with personal narratives. I especially love pop culture, music, internet culture (women on the internet!), essay collections, etc.

More in fiction: joyous LGBTQ+ characters. Contemporary, literary takes on the Western that critique genre tropes. Speculative/magical realism elements that are grounded in the “real” world (think Nothing To See Here, The Pisces)

I’d love to see subversive, sexual, queer women gone rogue (Melissa-Broder-type characters who are shamelessly off-putting, and have not only rejected gender roles, but all social expectations entirely)—Think: Sedating Elaine, The Pisces, Otessa Moshfegh

In fiction, I’m craving characters that are *so* possesed by their wants that their behavior takes a drastic turn—and alternately, melancholic characters who know that they can’t have what they want (and want it anyway).

On the religious/spiritual side, I’m looking for well-researched subversions of what we expect about religion, and deep dives into how people live their religions, into death practices, what it means to "believe," and how religious backgrounds affect character decisions.

Other topics! Send me writing about: material culture—our objects, histories of *things*, consumer culture, religious relics, and so on. Para-social relationships: celebrity obsession, internet culture, codependency.

Across the board, I’d love to see: region-specific writing (southern writers on the coastal and “convenience store” south, the Western US, or international narratives), especially underrepresented voices from these regions—

I’m always drawn to writing that lingers—on language, on character development, on the subtleties of character relationships, in one place, on the memory of a place, on a niche subject—and makes those details pop.

SO joyful and overwhelmed at the support I’ve received after Wednesday’s announcement that I am now open to queries over at @HowlandLit, and as I’ve started reading the wild, wonderful queries rolling in, now feels like the right moment for a #MSWL:

I've made a few updates to my #MSWL. In summary, I'm looking for darker themes, and ALL the dark academia vibes manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/nina…
(Yes, I am open to queries! Our agency website will be updated soon 😊)

#MSWL So, I do take mysteries/thrillers and detective stories, and a current want is something in the nature of Silver and Opal Country by Chris Hammer, where the place the novel is set is a character in its own right (in that case, the Australian outback).

Read through my #MSWL in my first #FlipPit tweet and think we'll be a good fit? To query me, please follow J&N's submission guidelines and include "Jane Chun" in the email subject line: janklowandnesbit.com/submissions

#amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity

Happy #FlipPit! My #MSWL will go up next week on manuscripwishlist.com, but until then, here's the gdoc: bit.ly/janechunmswl

Seeking mostly #A with some #MG #YA #NA in #AC #CON #CLIFI #F #FIC #GF #GN #HF #LF #MEM #NF #SF #SPF #UF #UP #W #WF. See my MSWL for more details!

I’m also feeling a deep need for all things humor! and a sweeping, true love story? would love to read that too #mswl

I'm picky about thrillers, but as an agency we love repping them. If it's not a fit for me I will pass along to another team member. 🥰

Happy #FlipPit!

My #MSWL is focused on #MG, #YA, #A, #NF, #MEM at the moment, and I'm open to almost any genre.
I'd love to find a #TT or #GN

Send me the weird.
Send me the lovable.
Send me the stuff that's out of the box but important to this moment in time.

“For YA nonfiction, I’d love to see more socially conscious critiques, like the Pocket Change Collective series published by Penguin Workshop.” @agentvicente  #MSWL mariavicente.com/representation