Welcome to The HSW Literary Agency Website

For the past decade, The HSW Literary Agency has represented some of the most authentic and fresh new voices in Canadian writing. Our clients include graduates of the Humber School for Writers whose work has been recommended to the Agency by their Mentors. We also represent members of the wider academic community.

The agency is affiliated with the acclaimed Humber School for Writers and gives its authors extra time and attention to support the development of their work.

Mentors at the School are eminent writers whose ranks include:

David Adams Richards, three-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and Giller Prize winner
M.G. Vassanji, two-time winner of the Giller Prize and recipient of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize
Olive Senior, winner of the Commonwealth Prize
Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize winner
Edward Albee, Celebrated Playwright
Andrea Levy, Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction

We are located in Toronto.