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Erik Hane
Headwater Literary Management
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About
Erik Hane is the founder of Headwater Literary Management. Before founding the agency, he worked in publishing on the editorial side, including at Oxford University Press. He brings an editorial sensibility to his agenting work.
Currently Looking For
I’d like the next… Fiction: Swamplandia! (Karen Russell) The Tiger’s Wife (Tea Obrecht) Scribe (Alyson Hagy) Severance (Ling Ma) 10:04 (Ben Lerner) Lost Children Archive (Valeria Luiselli) Normal People (Sally Rooney) The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (Michael Chabon) City on Fire (Garth Risk Hallberg) Dissident Gardens (Jonathan Lethem) A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James) Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell) A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan) Nonfiction: Trick Mirror (Jia Tolentino) They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Hanif Abdurraqib) October (China Mieville) Impossible Owls (Brian Phillips) How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Alexander Chee) I Contain Multitudes (Ed Yong) The Sixth Extinction (Elizabeth Kolbert) Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari) The Great Derangement or The Divide (both by Matt Taibbi) Nixonland (Rick Perlstein) On Immunity (Eula Biss) The Empathy Exams (Leslie Jamison)
Submission Guidelines
Query via email with a query letter and sample pages as specified on the agency or submission manager page. He prefers queries that are concise and give a clear sense of the project's argument or story.
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