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Raine posted an update 5 years, 9 months ago
For those of us in the North – Harper have opened their ‘northern’ (Manchester, still quite south from where I’m standing 😀 ) office & are doing an open submissions to northerly writers. I don’t know how long they’ll be doing that & imagine they’ll switch to agented only fairly quickly so if you’ve got something ready, might be worth a punt?
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sorry – forgot to add: Harpernorth.co.uk
Coming from the Manchester area myself I’m pleased one of the big publishing companies thinks this very populous, diverse and influential area is worth direct support. (If I knew how to add an emoji signalling a combination of weariness, irony, relief and some kind of optimism, I’d put it here.) I have to agree, Raine, that Manchester is hardly north to a substantial part of the UK population. I was telling someone the other day that it’s odd/worrying that Scotland and Wales seem, to those of us in the far south of England anyway, not to have much of a contemporary literary identity these days. Maybe I’ve missed it. I don’t think so, however. I read a lot of book reviews and those countries are conspicuous by their absence. Anyhow, there’s a cue here for Denizens to tell me how wrong my perceptions are. Northern Ireland is currently doing well, I’m pleased to see.