Jon Curzon is a literary agent at Selby Howard Literary Agency., where he represents writers across fiction and non-fiction. Clients he has represented have been published in the UK, US, Germany, France, India, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Greece.

In addition to his agenting work, Jon has also worked as a freelance editor for literary consultancies and creative writing courses since 2015. His perspective as an agent allows him to precisely identify what’s working in your manuscript and what needs tweaking in order to take your work to the next level.

Holly is an international bestselling author. Her published books include Try Not to Breathe (Ballantine Books), Don’t Close Your Eyes (Ballantine Books), Love Will Tear Us Apart (Corvus), The Hit List (Trapeze), The Woman on the Bridge (Orion), The Short Straw (Orion), and 59 Minutes (Orion).

She is also a mentor and tutor on our Ultimate Novel Writing Programme.

Elinor Davies began her publishing career as a Literary Agent’s Assistant and later Associate Agent at one of London’s leading literary agencies, Madeleine Milburn Agency, where she specialised in building a list of adult fiction ranging from commercial through to upmarket.

Since then, Elinor has established herself as an editor and author mentor working with organisations such as Asian Women Writers, Literature Wales and various university creative writing courses to help authors shape their manuscripts and enter the agent querying process with confidence.

Naomi has over eight years’ experience working in children’s publishing. She began her career at Puffin (Penguin Random House) before moving to Orion, and then Hachette Children’s Group.

Naomi’s own books are published by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Oxford Children’s Books and Hachette Children’s Group in the UK and have been translated into 22 languages.

Liz Monument is an author, writing all kinds of fiction including sci-fi, historical, and horror.

She believes that the mechanics of fiction are identical whether you’re writing literary, genre, or hybrids, and that the same principles can be applied to improve a manuscript regardless of its subject matter or style.

Liz’s experience as a tutor and mentor informs her approach to editing. She’s very supportive of newer writers, and has great knowledge of the foundations of writing craft.

Gary Gibson is one of the UK’s leading authors of hard science fiction, space opera and post-apocalyptic fiction.

Gary Gibson has published sixteen science fiction novels with Pan MacMillan, Newcon Press and through his own imprint Brain in a Jar Books, including Stealing Light (2007), Extinction Game (2012) and Echogenesis (2021).

As an editor for Jericho Writers, he’s worked with several hundred unpublished as well as published authors. His speciality is sci-fi and fantasy, but he’s also worked with writers of horror, crime and post-apocalyptic fiction.

Sam Jordison is an author and co-director at Galley Beggar Press, the award-winning indie press.

He has extensive editorial experience and knowledge of the book world – and has also been on the other side of the fence, having written several best-selling works of non-fiction, including the notorious Crap Towns series (Boxtree, Pan Macmillan), the best-selling I Spy for adults series, a book about Literary London (co-authored with Eloise Millar), political books like Enemies Of The People and The 10 Worst Of Everything.

Megan Collins is the author of the psychological thrillers The Winter Sister (2019), Behind the Red Door (2020), The Family Plot (2021), Thicker Than Water (2023), and Cross My Heart (2025), all published by Atria/Simon & Schuster.

She has an MFA in Creative Writing, and teaches creative writing. She is also a tutor on the Jericho Writers Ultimate Novel Writing Programme.

Em Norry is a fiction and non-fiction MG/YA author, with her books being published by Scholastic, Puffin, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, and Hodder Education. She writes under both Em Norry and E. L. Norry.

Her books include Son of the Circus (2019, Scholastic), The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela (2020, Puffin), Amber Undercover (2021, OUP), Football Legends #5: Lionel Messi (2021, Scholastic), Mary Prince (2022, Scholastic), Fable House (2023, Bloomsbury), Fable House: Heart of Fire (2024, Bloomsbury), and Runaways (2025, Bloomsbury).

Clare Coombes is an author, editor and literary agent with over 15 years’ experience of writing and editing professionally. She is a co-founder of the first Liverpool-based literary agency. Clare is a published author of two novels, Definitions (2015) and We Are of Dust (2018).

Her experience spans the breadth of editorial services and includes work across a variety of forms including full fiction manuscripts, anthologies, non-fiction proposals and pitches for film and TV.