About Us

Bryony Woods Literary Agency was founded in 2012 (then called Diamond Kahn & Woods), and rebranded as BWLA in 2025, when Bryony Woods took over as full owner. We represent many award-winning and bestselling authors across a broad range of genres. We work with all of the top publishing houses in the UK and USA including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, the Hachette Group, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Bonnier, as well as many leading independent publishers. Our authors’ books have been translated into dozens of languages and have gained outstanding reviews and media attention around the world.

We continue to be on the look-out for fantastic new authors. Our expertise ranges across the full spectrum of fiction and non-fiction for both children and adults. Our main goal is to build lasting careers for our writers by matching them with the right editors and publishing houses, and negotiating the best possible publishing deals on their behalf.

We offer our clients expertise, reputation, loyalty, trust, time and personalised attention. We provide a bespoke service for each client, including: editorial feedback, rights sales and negotiation, contract and royalties management, and ongoing career management, from advice on literary direction, mediating author-publisher relations, to promotional strategies and social media. We enjoy working editorially with authors to make their writing shine and believe this lays the foundations for building a very close working relationship with our clients.