Carolyn Forde

Carolyn is currently open to referrals only for the summer period and will reopen again in the Fall.

Please be advised that she will respond to *only* the queries she is interested in, and if after 6 weeks you have received no reply please assume it’s a pass.

Carolyn does not consider submissions that are sent to other Transatlantic agents simultaneously.

Carolyn would love to see literary fiction (especially speculative and horror), commercial fiction, funny crime fiction, narrative non-fiction by experts in the field – she is open minded to a broad range of topics and styles – as long as it engages her.

PLEASE NOTE: There are a few things she’s not keen on – medical/disease related memoirs, police procedurals, climate thrillers, military or CIA fiction, cozy mysteries, and books about film and tv behind the scenes.

Please submit a query letter via email to [carolyn@transatlanticagency.com] and the first 20 pages for consideration, within the body of your query – attachments will not be opened (double spaced and 12 pt font).

Previous to joining Transatlantic Agency in 2019, where she is now Senior Agent and Partner, Carolyn was a literary agent and International Rights Director at another agency for 14 years.

Carolyn attends the London Book Fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair and, more recently, the Bologna Book Fair. She also travels to New York and LA regularly, promoting her authors and their work.

She represents authors who have won or been nominated for many awards and distinctions including but not limited to the following: Governor General’s Award, Scotiabank Giller Prize, RBC Taylor Prize, Writers Trust Hilary Weston Award, Trillium Book Award, Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction, BC National Book Award, Toronto Book Award, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Speakers Award, Toronto Heritage Book Award, Hugo Prix for Best Foreign Thriller (France), Kobo Emerging Writer Award, Arthur Ellis Awards, LAMDA Awards, Indigo author of the month, as well as many national and international bestsellers.

Carolyn is an active member of the literary community, having been a speaker or mentor at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference, Muskoka Literary Festival, DarkLit Literary Festival, Word on the Street, Writers Group of Durham, Ontario Writers’ Conference, Willamette Writers Conference, Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, Thrillerfest, Diaspora Dialogues and the Canadian Authors Association and is a founding member and current President of the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents (PACLA), she is also Co-chair of the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ International Visitor Committee.

Carolyn has lived and worked in Japan, Mexico and the Czech Republic and is a dual citizen of Canada and the UK.