Subject: Date: Is now the time to share your life experience?
Entries for the 2026 I Am Writing Competitions are firing in –
is yours amongst them? Have a look at our competition page to see which
categories resonate with your book.
If you are busy querying, you may benefit from an Agent121 before clicking
'send' and our new release of agents for June will be live at 12:00 noon UK
BST today and fully bookable on our website. See below for details.Our popular I Am Writing Competitions are open and receiving entries across
all twelve categories which is wonderful to watch as the judges sit back to
enjoy them. Our focus in this communication is on one of our newest
categories: non-fiction.
The non-fiction market hosts a range of books for everyone to enjoy. Over the
past seven years Agent121 has shown us that so many talented writers have
valuable life experiences to share. Of course, memoir and biography will be
the obvious route for telling your own story or someone else's and
those categories make up a large part of the non-fiction market. (Indeed, we
have even played a small part in helping an octogenarian with connections to
some world-renowned musicians secure her agent which led to a Top Five
publishing deal!) But there are so many other angles that many of you could
take with getting a book published.
We have chatted with animators who work on family favourite
movies; screenwriters who bring drama to life on screen and radio; animal
conservationists; psychologists and psychiatrists who have helped patients
with trauma; dentists and surgeons; restaurant owners and chefs; experts on
Jane Austen; teachers who inspire the next generation of amazing Humans;
prison wardens; writers who love travelling; journalists who range in locationfrom fashion shoots to war zones; refugees who have escaped war to find
sanctuary in a safer land and through their storytelling; military personnel, on
land and at sea, who keep us safe in our beds; government policy makers;
horse blanket makers; activists; environmentalists; people who have worked in
royal households; business owners working across all timezones for their
international relations to flourish; computer linguists who write algorithms for
popular websites; social media experts who manage household platforms that
follow us around our homes; foster parents and mums and dads working two
jobs while running a family and perfecting their story in the squashed minutes
between; truly, the writing community members we meet every day are a
humbling bunch and their stories often make it to our dinner table
conversation that evening.
With such a vast list of vocations and hobbyists reading this newsletter, we're
here to whisper into your ear that there are plenty of non-fiction angles you
and your life experience could take by imparting your knowledge. You're all
incredible. Use your life experience. Share it with the world. Because if the two
of us are interested to hear about it, and tell our families, the rest of the world
will be too.will be too.
Here are just a few sub genres of non-fiction for you to consider pulling
together an entry:
All you need is an introductory 3,500 words and a one-page
synopsis/proposal. For all types of non-fiction (excluding memoir) a one-page
chapter summary is also required. And who knows what our judge, Sabhbh
Curran from Curtis Brown, will make of it?
zealous.co
GOOD LUCK!
Entries for the 2026 I Am Writing Competitions are firing in –
is yours amongst them? Have a look at our competition page to see which
categories resonate with your book.
If you are busy querying, you may benefit from an Agent121 before clicking
'send' and our new release of agents for June will be live at 12:00 noon UK
BST today and fully bookable on our website. See below for details.Our popular I Am Writing Competitions are open and receiving entries across
all twelve categories which is wonderful to watch as the judges sit back to
enjoy them. Our focus in this communication is on one of our newest
categories: non-fiction.
The non-fiction market hosts a range of books for everyone to enjoy. Over the
past seven years Agent121 has shown us that so many talented writers have
valuable life experiences to share. Of course, memoir and biography will be
the obvious route for telling your own story or someone else's and
those categories make up a large part of the non-fiction market. (Indeed, we
have even played a small part in helping an octogenarian with connections to
some world-renowned musicians secure her agent which led to a Top Five
publishing deal!) But there are so many other angles that many of you could
take with getting a book published.
We have chatted with animators who work on family favourite
movies; screenwriters who bring drama to life on screen and radio; animal
conservationists; psychologists and psychiatrists who have helped patients
with trauma; dentists and surgeons; restaurant owners and chefs; experts on
Jane Austen; teachers who inspire the next generation of amazing Humans;
prison wardens; writers who love travelling; journalists who range in locationfrom fashion shoots to war zones; refugees who have escaped war to find
sanctuary in a safer land and through their storytelling; military personnel, on
land and at sea, who keep us safe in our beds; government policy makers;
horse blanket makers; activists; environmentalists; people who have worked in
royal households; business owners working across all timezones for their
international relations to flourish; computer linguists who write algorithms for
popular websites; social media experts who manage household platforms that
follow us around our homes; foster parents and mums and dads working two
jobs while running a family and perfecting their story in the squashed minutes
between; truly, the writing community members we meet every day are a
humbling bunch and their stories often make it to our dinner table
conversation that evening.
With such a vast list of vocations and hobbyists reading this newsletter, we're
here to whisper into your ear that there are plenty of non-fiction angles you
and your life experience could take by imparting your knowledge. You're all
incredible. Use your life experience. Share it with the world. Because if the two
of us are interested to hear about it, and tell our families, the rest of the world
will be too.will be too.
Here are just a few sub genres of non-fiction for you to consider pulling
together an entry:
All you need is an introductory 3,500 words and a one-page
synopsis/proposal. For all types of non-fiction (excluding memoir) a one-page
chapter summary is also required. And who knows what our judge, Sabhbh
Curran from Curtis Brown, will make of it?
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