Come prepared with a focused, convincing pitch. You will receive supportive, insightful and actionable feedback to help you find a market for your book. You might even land representation. You don’t need to bring the manuscript, but you may upload a one-page query letter or synopsis in advance. Details on how to upload your one-pager will be sent out after registration. Time slots are limited.
Nicole Cunningham joined Trellis Literary Management in 2025 after nine years with The Book Group.
She represents authors across adult fiction, as well as select nonfiction. She is seeking literary, upmarket and book club fiction. She’s drawn to immersive, smart and voice-driven fiction — better yet if it combines a propulsive plot with deep-dive character work. She loves upmarket novels with a magical or speculative bent (including some very grounded fantasy); thrillers with a strong sense of place; book club books with a beating heart and a razor-sharp bite; and literary or upmarket fiction with a romance at its center. She’d love to find more fiction at the sweet spot of literary sensibility with a high-concept hook. In nonfiction, Cunningham wants fresh and finely tuned essay collections, cultural criticism and well-researched, entertaining narrative nonfiction that has the bingeable quality of her favorite podcasts. Born and raised in upstate New York, Cunningham moved to New York City to study English and American literature and gender and sexuality studies at NYU. After 10 years, she returned to the Finger Lakes to renovate an old house with her husband, dog and son. When she’s not reading, Cunningham is social dancing around the Northeast or messing about in her garden.
Sorche Elizabeth Fairbank has had her own agency for more than 22 years and still thinks it's the
best job in the world (it is). Clients range from first-time authors to international bestsellers, prize-winning journalists to professionals at the top of their fields, to some seriously silly and crazy smart creatives. They can be found with all the major publishers, as well as in The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Granta, The Best American Short Stories and more. One of the leading humor agents, Fairbank reps and takes delight in humor books, narrative and illustrated.
Erin Hosier, a literary agent with Dunow Carlson & Lerner, primarily works with authors of nonfiction
and select literary fiction for adults. She has a special interest in memoir, secret histories, music biography and pop culture, narrative science, humor, cultural criticism and untold stories of all kinds. She is the author of the memoir Don’t Let Me Down and the co-author of drummer Patty Schemel’s Hit So Hard. She co-hosts and produces the Tell Me About Your Father podcast. She lives in Cleveland.