How to Submit
Dunham Literary, Inc. is currently OPEN for queries.
Submission Guidelines
Dunham Literary represents Adult Fiction, Adult Non-Fiction, and Children’s Books (including both authors and illustrators).
We do not represent Individual Short Stories, Chapbooks or Novellas, or Original Screen/Stage Plays.
Dunham Literary accepts query letters by EMAIL ONLY. We do not accept queries sent by mail or fax, and we do not take pitches over the phone or through any social media platforms. After receiving a query letter, we request any and all projects that may be right for us.
To submit a query letter by email, the correct address is:
query(at)dunhamlit(dot)com.
(Note: this format has been altered in an attempt to reduce spam. Please replace (at) with @ and (dot) with a period when sending.)
We respond to all queries that come in to the above email address. We do not reply to queries sent to any other Dunham Literary email addresses or social media. We try to respond within four weeks from the time we receive query letters, but sometimes we are faster or slower.
AUTHORS: Please paste the query letter and the first five pages of your manuscript in the body of the email. Do not link to Google Docs or upload your query or pages as attachments. We DO NOT open attachments with writing samples. Please do not send full manuscripts unless they are requested by an agent after we receive your query letter.
ILLUSTRATORS: You may attach three images as .JPG files with illustrations or sample pages of a dummy. You may also include a link to a portfolio or samples online.
Please address your query to the agent you think would be the best fit for you and your manuscript. All our agents have a shared inbox, and we regularly share queries with each other when we think appropriate, so please only send one query to Dunham Literary.
Not sure who to query? Check out the “What They’re Seeking” sections of our agents’ profiles for more info.
Learn about Jennie Dunham here.
Learn about Anjanette Barr here.
Referrals: if someone referred you to our agency, please put their name in the first paragraph of your query letter saying that this person recommended that you contact our agency specifically.
Conferences: if you attended a writers' conference where Jennie Dunham or Anjanette Barr were visiting faculty, they may have given you a code to use. Please put this conference code in the subject line, not the body of the email. Please note that these codes change from conference to conference.
For more information about querying, please see our Frequently Asked Questions.
Note: Dunham Literary, Inc. is not affiliated with or in any way related to The Dunham Group.