Now in its third year, the 2022 MM Mentorship Programme is part of the agency’s commitment to champion new and exciting voices around the world and launch debut writing careers.
Committed to reach even more diverse candidates, this year we are offering six spaces on our mentorship scheme, and for the first time, all six places will be reserved to those from underrepresented backgrounds.
This includes, but is not limited to, writers from an ethnic minority background, LGBTQ+ writers, writers who are disabled or neurodiverse, and writers from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
The mentorship programme is open to writers around the world. Entrants must be over the age of 16 and unrepresented.
The programme will be split into two parts – the first part is a series of online insight sessions, given by editors, agents, international rights, film & tv, as well as bestselling authors. The second part will run concurrently with the first, but without a fixed time limit. Each mentee will be partnered with an MM literary agent mentor and will receive personalised editorial feedback on their manuscript.
Each mentee will also receive guaranteed representation from an agent, and though not a given, we will aim to get the manuscript ready for submission for publishers around the world.
What are we looking for?
On the fiction side, we are especially eager to find commercial, literary, thriller, historical, romance, book club, middle grade and young adult. On the non-fiction side, we are particularly looking for narrative non-fiction, memoir, new perspectives in history, arts and culture, politics, economics, philosophy, psychology, nature and science, unusual illustrated projects, dynamic cookery or food writing.
Please note that we are only looking for writers from underrepresented backgrounds this year.
Find out more here
Deadline: 5.30pm BST on 31st July 2022