Trellis Literary Management is a full-service literary agency founded in 2021 by agents Michelle Brower, Stephanie Delman, and Allison Hunter. The agency represents a wide range of literary, upmarket, commercial, and genre-bending fiction alongside narrative and trade nonfiction, with particular strengths in book-club fiction, historical fiction, suspense and thriller, speculative work, memoir, history, cultural criticism, journalism, popular science, and other idea-driven nonfiction.
Trellis takes a collaborative, career-focused approach to representation and also handles foreign, film and television, audio, and other subsidiary rights. Its clients include bestselling and award-winning authors whose work has been recognized by major literary prizes and national book clubs. Submission interests and availability vary by agent, and unsolicited queries are accepted only through each agent’s QueryManager page.
Trellis Literary Management Submission Guidelines
Submitting Your Work to Trellis Literary Management
Before submitting to Trellis Literary Management
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To be sure your submission is appropriate for this market, we recommend you familiarize yourself with Trellis Literary Management by reading a sample issue before submitting.
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From the Trellis Literary Management guidelines:
Thank you for choosing to submit your work to Trellis Literary Management! To learn more about our agents, please read our team bios and wishlists, choose the agent that feels like the best fit for your work, and follow the submission instructions on their individual Query Manager page (linked below).
Unfortunately, we are not able to respond to every submission that we receive. If we are interested in reading further, we will contact you within 8-12 weeks of your submission. We ask that you refrain from submitting to multiple Trellis agents during that time frame. If you have not heard from us within twelve weeks of your submission, you are welcome to submit to another Trellis agent. If you receive an offer of representation from another agency, please let us know via QueryManager.
We look forward to reading your work! Thank you for seeking us out, and thank you for writing.