NOW READING 📖 From now until the end of 2025, send Ashlee your picture book and author/illustrator queries!

Welcome, Andrea Rinard! Andrea Rinard is the author of Murmurations (EastOver, 2023), and her work has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, Best Short Fiction, and Best of the Net. She is the 2020 winner of the Key West Literary Seminar’s Marianne Russo Award for an emerging novelist.

Announced in Publishers Weekly, congrats to Esty & Olivia! ✨

Please welcome Maria Wen Adcock to Ashlee's list! Maria Wen Adcock is the author of IT'S CHINESE NEW YEAR, CURIOUS GEORGE (2023) and MY NAME IS AI LIN (2025), which received a Starred Review from School Library Journal.

Putting the spotlight 💡 on Audrey Barbakoff, and her new book for childhood readers, MAZEL TOES! Author Audrey Barbakoff, a Jewish mother and educator, infuses each verse with cultural warmth and connection, while Annita Soble’s cozy illustrations honor the strength and diversity of Jewish families.

Please welcome Gabriela Orozco Belt to the Howland Literary team! ⭐ .

Does this sound like your book? Ashlee would love to see it! #literaryagent #kidlit #MSWL #

Julia Phillips calls A GOOD ANIMAL "aching, exquisite." We couldn't agree more. Out in just a few months, Sara Maurer's debut is available for pre-order now: bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

Rural life is a "gorgeous waltz" in Sara Maurer's novel of the UP, available for pre-order now ⭐ #literaryfiction #literaryagent #debutauthor #stmartinspress #howlandliterary

Ashlee & Becca are on the hunt for something new! Are they a fit for your WIP?

Our agents repping adult fiction & nonfiction would love to see your work ⭐

We fell in love with the "pitch perfect prose" of Sara Maurer's debut from the first line ⭐ Give her a pre-order, and you might too: bookshop.org/p/books/a-go... #literaryagent #literaryfiction #debutauthor #howlandliterary #stmartinspress

How do we "come to learn what love is?" ⭐ Sara Maurer's debut novel of star-crossed love in rural Michigan might tell you, available for pre-order now: bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

The praise keeps coming! Sara Maurer's debut novel is a "nostalgic and poignant coming-of-age," available for pre-order now: bookshop.org/p/books/a-go... #literaryagent #howlandliterary #literaryfiction #debutauthor #stmartinspress

Wonderful ⭐ Tremendous ⭐ Deeply Affecting ⭐ Sara Maurer's A GOOD ANIMAL is out everywhere 2/24/26, but available for pre-order now: bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

"written with nuance, kindness, and grit," Sara Maurer's debut A GOOD ANIMAL is available for pre-order ⭐ Purchase here or through your local independent bookseller: bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

"Powerfully personal and vivid" 🍄 Maria Pinto's fungal lens steals the show in FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS, available for pre-order now: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

The Howland Literary office will be closed from 7/3 - 7/7.

Ross Gay said of FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS "I have rarely encountered such a beautiful book." ⭐ Place your pre-order here: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Early praise is in for FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS ⭐ Coming this October, Maria Pinto's debut essay collection is available for pre-order now: uncpress.org/book/9781469... #literaryagent #essaycollection #fungi #mycology #howlandliterary #uncpress

Join us in welcoming Esty Loveing-Downes to the Howland Literary team ✨ As she settles in, Esty is looking for romance in adult, new adult, or YA spaces, upmarket fiction, adult or YA grounded fantasy, and literary fiction.

Brier Marilyn is an author-illustrator who balances carefully coloring inside the lines with letting her artwork spill beyond them. She creates stories that blend humor and heart, with sunlit storytelling and illustrations that not only burst with color but are packed with hidden surprises.

Ashlee MacCallum is NOW OPEN to queries at Howland Literary! #literaryagent #howlandliterary #amquerying

Thank you for joining the agency in honoring this and every Memorial Day.

Team @howlandlit.bsky.social made me a gorgeous new #MSWL brochure. Here’s what I’m looking for when I open back up to queries in May.

Look at @howlandlit.bsky.social and @bookfairyangus.bsky.social supporting me so well! 🥹 I cannot wait for Take Your Kid to Publishing Day! So many amazing agents/authors/pub professionals are already signed up. It’s going to be special! #writingcommunity danielleturmaud9.wixsite.com/danielle-ren...

Beyond excited to share this news! Pumpkin Shabbat 🎃 🍁 🍂 is on its way to fill your bookshelves with goofy giggles, fall fun, and Jewish joy! I’m incredibly honored to collaborate with brilliant folks like @familiusbooks.bsky.social @bookfairyangus.bsky.social @howlandlit.bsky.social

We're thrilled to welcome Ashlee to the team!

FIRST LOOK at the cover for FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS, coming this November from Great Circle Books.

We're backlogged on GREAT work (and what a lucky problem to have). Rebecca is currently closed to queries, but will re-open in May.

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT ⭐ Chelsea Wakelyn is the author of WHAT REMAINS OF ELSIE JANE, with an unsettlingly nostalgic next novel in the works.

Gabriela & Becca have a new client together 👀 ✨ Join us in welcoming Sylvia Madrigal, author of adult literary fiction. Learn more about Sylvia & all of our authors at

Query Opening Update and #MSWL

Lilac Crest is✨OFFICIALLY✨on SUBMISSION!!!🐦‍⬛ Editors, if you’re looking for a witchy sapphic gothic fantasy cottageGORE CARMILLA retelling, ft an immortality-seeking cult, green magic, necromancy, gore and horror…🌿🌱🍎 ⇢ 💌 Contact my agent! @bookfairyangus.bsky.social at @howlandlit.bsky.social

Starting this month, Zoe & Rebecca will open their QM for the first two weeks of every month. ✨ More details about Carrie & Gabriela's queries coming soon~

WELOME TO HOWLAND LIT ✨ @suzannealbanis.bsky.social Suzanne Albanis is a New England-born fantasy and horror author of European ancestry, primarily of Greek, Polish, and Irish descent, working with Howland Lit's @bookfairyangus.bsky.social on her next project ✨

We're here! Learn more about the agents at Howland Literary here, and keep an eye out for our MSWLs in the next few weeks ✨ howlandliterary.com