Wales Literary Agency

01/04/2026

09/14/2025

Cambridge and Boston friends…Sept 21 talk by Lynda Mapes! More events in comments.

The old-growth forests of Oregon and Washington play a vital role in the ecosystems there, supporting a wide diversity of life and sequestering carbon in enormous, long-living trees. The east coast, by contrast, has been logged and clear cut for generations and has precious little old-growth forest....

09/12/2025

Coming out next week!

06/11/2025

💥Call for Writers in the Schools💥
For the coming 2025-26 school year, we are hiring 1-3 WITS Writers— practicing writers in the community—to join our cohort of literary teaching artists and work within our partner schools’ classrooms.

Deadline to apply is June 30, 2025! Link in bio for full job description and application details.

We welcome applications from writers of diverse mediums - poets, prose writers, playwrights, cartoonists/graphic novelists, and memoirists - and especially encourage Black writers, Indigenous writers, writers of color, writers from the LGBTQ+ community, bilingual writers, and writers from interdisciplinary backgrounds to apply.

ABOUT WITS:
Writers in the Schools (WITS), a literary arts education program of Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL), places professional local writers in public K-12 schools throughout the Puget Sound region, as well as Seattle Children’s Hospital, for extended creative writing residencies during the school day.

06/10/2025

Come to Bellingham this month! Elizabeth is one of a great list of publishing folks and writers who are speakers at Chuckanut Writers. It’s a great opportunity to connect. More in the first comment. See you there!

07/30/2024

Leela Corman is featured in Kirkus Reviews again. If you haven't visited your local bookstore's graphic novel section, here's another reason to check it out!

There are still people who think that graphic novels are just for kids. These standout new releases prove them wrong.

03/13/2024

Starred review from Library Journal for Brenda Peterson Author's book, WILD CHORUS! Published by Mountaineers and due out next month.

"Award-winning nature writer Peterson’s (Wild Orca: The Oldest, Wisest Whale in the World) new book of essays explores her relationship with animals and the natural world and the wisdom that humans can glean from them. She explains that her love of nature writing came largely from her father, a forest ranger, from whom she learned that all living creatures and participants in nature have meaning, value, and purpose. Personal experience led her to discover that most wildlife can work together with people in a positive manner. Other essays in this book draw upon her encounters with wild animals (whales, dolphins, wolves, bears) to illustrate how people can learn from wildlife about improving the environment and the overall well-being of humans.
VERDICT At first glance, this book seems like a plea from an activist, but it’s far more than that. Peterson’s writing style and her intimately told stories about how animals and people can jointly navigate the planet have the ability to draw readers in and leave them with hope about the future of the world."
Reviewed by Steve Dixon , Mar 01, 2024

02/28/2024

We Are Not Strangers is on The Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 at The Mary Sue!

Here's what they said...

Josh Tuininga’s graphic novel is about a Seattle-based Sephardic Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help neighbors whose lives were upended by World War II’s Executive Order 9066, a U.S. law authorizing the incarceration of nearly all Japanese Americans and residents of Japanese ancestry (unfortunately, although the Supreme Court had a chance in 2018, the 1944 case Korematsu v. U.S. upholding the EO has never been overturned). While Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market is best known for its delicious seafood, Tuininga fills the pages of his graphic novel with the stories of the people behind the market and their shared experiences of discrimination.

Check out the link for more books on the list:

https://www.themarysue.com/the-best-nonfiction-books-of-2023/

01/26/2024

Publisher's Marketplace: January 24, 2024 -
TRIGGER WARNING, by Jacinda Townsend

Fiction: Literary

Author of MOTHER COUNTRY Jacinda Townsend's TRIGGER WARNING, charting the epic, midlife-crisis road trip of a Black woman who in her 40s finally confronts the trauma of her father's killing by the police when she was a teenager, and who is now newly divorced and raising a trans teenager of her own, to Anni Liu at Graywolf, by Elizabeth Wales at Wales Literary Agency (world English).