PLEASE NOTE - Agent One-to-One sessions book out very quickly! Booking deadline Friday 25th October.

Meetings will be 15 minutes long, and there will be a £25 fee. For the in-person meetings, please select which Agent you’d like to speak to on booking. Please note spaces are limited.

By booking tickets for this event, you are committing to submitting your submission letter and the first 2,000 words of your novel (or less) by Monday 28th October. Please send your material to admin@cymerafestival.co.uk

Caro Clarke is the founder and literary agent at Portobello Literary. They founded the agency in 2022 after twelve years working in publishing houses – Transworld (PRH) and Canongate Books as a Senior Rights Manager. They were named Rights Professional of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2021 and a Bookseller Rising Star in 2024.

In 2019, they co-founded the Nan Shepherd Prize for underrepresented nature writers, which kickstarted a passion to demystify the publishing industry and help emerging writers to develop their craft and build their writing careers. Portobello Literary was established in 2022 to build on that work. Find out more about Caro Clarke and Portobello Literary.