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Georges Borchardt
Literary Agency:
Georges Borchardt
Address:
136 East 57 Street
New York, New York 10022
New York, New York 10022
Phone:
(212) 753-5785
Website:
E-mail:
Accepts E-mail Queries:
Yes Interested in Representing:
Experimental, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
Submission Guidelines
Send a query letter via regular mail or e-mail.
Tips From the Agent
We do accept e-mail submissions but only from authors recommended to us by people we know (usually other authors, sometimes editors). Our reporting time is usually a week or less for a proposal, three or four weeks for a complete manuscript.
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