{"id":264,"name":"Cathryn Summerhayes","url":"cathryn-summerhayes","department":{"id":2,"name":"Books","url":"books"},"phone":"+44 (0)207 393 4233","email":"SummerhayesOffice@curtisbrown.co.uk","summary":"","bio":"<p><\/p><p class=\"xxmsonormal\">Cathryn Summerhayes is a literary agent with Curtis Brown. She previously worked at WME, where she established an eclectic list of high profile clients including multi-million copy crime thriller writers Chris Whitaker and Lucy Foley, record-breaking Dr Adam Kay (This is Going to Hurt and many others), Anita Rani, Lisa Howells, Nicci Cloke, Shappi Khorsandi, (Deliciously) Ella Mills, Mark Watson, Naomi Wood, Lucy Rose, Kirsty Logan, Susan Fletcher, Viv Groskop, Tiffany Murray, the world\u2019s bestselling colouring in artist, Johanna Basford, Grace Dent, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and many more.\u00a0 Cathryn also works with major US authors, such as Lisa Taddeo, Jennifer Coolidge and Ashley Flowers through partner agencies UTA and CAA.<\/p><p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><span>Cathryn was named The British Book Awards\u2019 Literary Agent of the Year in 2019. She is on the Committee of The Book Society, works with Literature Wales and The Hay Festival and in her previous life in events and PR worked on high profile awards such as The Booker Prize and with clients as wide-ranging as Nigella Lawson and JK Rowling.<\/span><\/p><p><\/p><p><b>Cathryn is open to submissions. Please email the first three chapters or 10,000 words and short synopsis (for fiction) or proposal (for non-fiction) to summerhayesofficesubmissions@curtisbrown.co.uk<\/b><br\/><\/p><p><\/p>","profile_photo":95106,"show_clients":true,"links":{},"meta_tags":"cathryn-summerhayes,cathryn-summerhayes-literary-agent","media_urls":{"95106":{"uuid":"c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565","protected":false,"urls":{"original":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/original","horizontal":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/horizontal","700x373":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/700x373","262x140":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/262x140","square":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/square","700x700":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/700x700","328x328":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/328x328","139x139":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/139x139","73x73":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/73x73","vertical":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/vertical","600x732":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/600x732","300x360":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/300x360","650x650":"\/media\/c6de2ca8-7f61-4f74-9bc3-5baefc04d565\/show\/650x650"}}}}