Blake Friedmann Open Week returns!

Our Open Week is back! After an exciting and busy 2025, we’re pleased to be reopening our virtual doors next month with a week (Monday 10th – Friday 14th of November) dedicated to demystifying publishing and agenting, and supporting writers seeking representation. We will be running Q & As, sharing agent blogs on a variety of agenting and publishing topics, and running book giveaways across our social media accounts on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and Bluesky.

As ever, our aim is to offer helpful information and insight into what an agent does, how to navigate the submission process in terms of finding an agent, how an author and agent work together, understanding the publication process, earning income as an author through the sale of rights (translation, film & TV, audio and book), and we’re also happy to answer any questions on how to get into the agenting or publishing industry. The whole team, including all of our book agents, the Film & TV department, and the Translation Rights team, will be involved throughout the week, and we hope to answer as many questions as possible from writers (published or querying).

Alongside this, we will be offering three writers a 20-minute feedback meeting (online or by phone) on their submission packages in December. More information on how to submit for this opportunity will be revealed during the week on our social media accounts and on our website.

Kate Burke said: ‘We’re delighted to be running our Open Week again! At Blake Friedmann, we are all about transparency and accessibility. We are committed to supporting writers and anyone who wants to get into the industry but one thing we notice, time and time again –  from social media and what our agents hear when they give talks at schools, writers’ groups, conferences and festivals – is that people still have questions about what agents actually do and how it all works in terms of money, deals and rights, so, hopefully, our Open Weeks help to clarify that!’

More about the Open Week and new, daily content will be shared on our website and on our social media channels, using the hashtag #BFLAOpenWeek, throughout the week of 10th of November. This author-focused endeavour follows our ongoing Carole Blake Open Doors Project launched in 2017.

More information about Open Week - including our archive of blog posts and articles from previous years - can be found on the BFLA Open Week page of our website.