Literary agents who want books like Station Eleven

She actively wants speculative premises — magical realism, time travel, dystopian settings, the fantastical woven through the literary. The concept should feel …

Wheeler's broadest and most active category. The key criterion is that fiction must be set in the real world — present, past, or near-future — rather than a ful…

Lake welcomes literary fiction that incorporates a speculative twist or draws on mythological frameworks — but the literary sensibility should be primary. These…

She seeks adult fiction that uses unconventional structure or setting to excavate emotional truth — particularly stories about family, identity, and the interio…

She wants speculative premises grounded in emotional and social reality — the kind of 'what if' that illuminates how people actually live. Hard SF world-buildin…

Smith's stated sweet spot: fiction that pulls a bit of genre into the literary register. They want category-crossing, upmarket storytelling and explicitly invit…

Hannah wants literary-leaning fiction with a strong concept hook and ensemble casts that resonate especially with millennial readers. The sweet spot is elevated…

Jacobson favors speculative work rooted in a world recognizably like ours, with a single twist or light fantastic element rather than full world-building. She i…

Patricia wants big ideas delivered through a distinctive point of view. Her special sweet spot is upmarket literary fiction with a speculative, horror, or magic…

For adult fiction, Coen gravitates toward literary and upmarket work — prose that earns its ambition, whether through style, structure, or depth of character. H…