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What Emma is looking for
Emma is interested in literary fiction that grapples with climate change; ambitious multigenerational novels or family sagas; speculative fiction; literary thrillers; and dark or darkly comic domestic fiction. Emma is also seeking narrative nonfiction, longform journalism, essays and academic crossover. She is interested in climate, environment, institutional corruption, big idea books and object histories. She likes to work with academic writers with great narrative sensibilities, such as historians who can target an understudied era and spin an incredible yarn. She looking for personal narrative and memoir only insofar as it has a strong analytic or journalistic angle.
Notable sales & clients
- The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
- Lifeguard by Janet Fash and Clio Chang
- False Prophet by Afsheen Farhadi
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What genres does Emma Dries represent?
Emma Dries represents Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction.
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