Meet Carrie Howland
Industry veteran, Carrie Howland, has over twenty years of experience as a literary agent. She founded Howland Literary, LLC in 2018.
Carrie holds a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Albion College, where she was the Poetry Editor of The Albion Review. Her poetry has appeared in various literary journals and magazines.
Carrie has been actively involved in animal rescue for decades. Her passions include parenting, psychology, music, pop culture, and the Midwest.
She has been featured in several publications discussing her work as an agent including Poets & Writers, SCWBI insight, Akashic Books, and Slice Magazine.
Carrie will be taking pitches and conducting Query Letter/First Page critiques, and you’ll see her participate in Friday evening’s “First Page Read – Love It or Leave It.”
Wishlist
Carrie is accepting submissions for: adult literary, upmarket, and commercial fiction as well as memoir, narrative and prescriptive non-fiction, and cookbooks.
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Meet Megan Lutes, Carrie’s Agent Assistant for AF 2024
Midwest Writers Workshop likes to include interns, mostly college students majoring in English, to coordinate and facilitate the agents’ pitch schedules. You’ll be hearing from them regarding your appointment time, and they’ll help you meet the agents in the Zoom room when it’s time for your pitch.
Megan Lutes is a second year English Studies graduate student at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the English department, she teaches a first-year writing composition class with a theme of Applying Apparel and Fashion, drawing from her undergraduate degree in apparel design. Megan also serves as the Assistant Director of the Writing Program and as the Assistant Managing Editor of River Teeth, a nonfiction literary journal housed at Ball State. Her work, as both a writer and a stylist, has been published in PATTERN Magazine. When Megan is not on campus, you may find her making jewelry, listening to K-pop, or cuddling up to her cat, Charles. Visit her website here.
Read our earlier posts about “The [Dreaded] Agent Pitch” and “What’s In a First Page Read with Literary Agents?”
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