Festilitt

Places will be limited for this workshop so reservations are essential.  Booking will open in September with priority to Festilitt friends and patrons. 

Andrew Lownie’s eponymous literary agency, founded in the UK in 1988, represents around 200 fiction and non-fiction authors. He has been the top selling agent worldwide for each of the last four years and has been shortlisted for Agent of the Year (British Bookseller Awards) for the last three years running.

He is, therefore, perfectly placed to offer advice on getting published. So if you are a budding writer, this is a session not to be missed. 

Andrew Lownie

How to get published

Friday 17h00

La Mairie

More about Andrew

Andrew Lownie read history at Magdelene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Union. He went on to gain an MSc at Edinburgh and spent a year at the College of Law in London. He began his publishing career as a graduate trainee at Hodder & Stoughton before joining John Farquharson, now Curtis Brown, as a publishing agent in 1985 where he was appointed as a director, the youngest in British publishing, the following year. He set up the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency in 1988 and it is one of the UK's leading agencies with some 200 non-fiction and fiction authors. Andrew Lownie has been the top selling agent in the world for the last four years and he has been shortlisted for the 'Agent of the Year' award for the last three years running.

Andrew has judged book prizes and speaks widely at festivals and conferences on both aspects of publishing and the books he has written. In 1998 he founded The Biographers Club and The Biographers' Club Prize which supports first time biographers and in 2013 his agency set up Thistle Publishing.

Since 1984 Andrew has written and reviewed for a range of newspapers and magazines. As an author he is known notably for his work on John Buchan and a literary companion to Edinburgh. His new book Stalin's Englishman is the result of 20 years research. The Bookseller wrote 'it's not every day that one of our leading agents comes out with a book of his own ... The literary agent Lownie is an accomplished chameleon whose colours can switch to those of an author as easily as putting on a red sportcoat.'