June 11, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AWP Announces Writer to Agent: Summer Edition

Norfolk, VA — AWP is thrilled to announce the first-ever Writer to Agent: Summer Edition program, exclusive to AWP members! An expansion of the popular AWP Conference & Bookfair Writer to Agent program, Writer to Agent: Summer Edition provides exciting opportunities, including applying to meet with literary agents virtually, joining a virtual “Ask an Agent Anything” call hosted by Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary Agency, and gaining access to archival conference recordings of events about finding and working with an agent.

Writer to Agent: Summer Edition over a teal overlay and photo of papers and a hand holding a penMembers can submit applications to have their manuscripts read by seven literary agents: Julie Finidori from Aevitas Creative Management UK, Jeff Silberman from Folio Literary Management, Marin Takikawa from the Friedrich Agency, Jillian Davis from Kaplan Stahler Agency, Georgia Bodnar from Noyan Literary, Jacklyn Saferstein-Hansen from Renaissance Literary & Talent, and Jenni Ferrari-Adler from Verve Talent & Literary Agency.

The 2025 Writer to Agent: Summer Edition package is available to all AWP members. Not a member yet? Purchase the bundled membership and Writer to Agent registration for an easier checkout.

AWP encourages applicants to submit their work as soon as possible. The submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.

About AWP
AWP is a professional association of creative writers and writing programs. AWP provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to individual writers, academic creative writing programs, and organizations. The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. It includes thousands of attendees, hundreds of events and bookfair exhibitors, and four days of essential literary conversation and celebration.