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OWN IT! NEWS
HUGE NEWS:
We’re launching OWN IT! Productions, a Film/TV company. Alongside this, OWN IT! Agency is joining forces with The Partnership Group. We’re still fiercely independent and uncompromisingly ourselves but now with the backing The Artist Partnership, Sayle Screen, Sara Putt Associates and Be Heard Voices.
Start your OWN IT! Career today.
Applications are now open for the following positions:
❗️TALENT AGENT (SALARY: 35-50k dependent on experience)
❗️EDITORIAL AND LITERARY ASSISTANT (SALARY: 22k)
Applications close June 3rd.
AGENCY NEWS
LOSING THE PLOT BY DEREK OWUSU – POETRY COLLECTION / NOVEL-IN-VERSE
Told through the eyes of both mother and son, Losing the Plot is at once emotionally raw and playful as Owusu experiments with form to piece together the immigrant experience and explore how the stories we share and tell ourselves are just as vital as the ones we don’t.
OPENING DOORS BY REGGIE NELSON
OUT NOW
Inspiring, moving and empowering,#OpeningDoors is a story of how the power of guidance, visibility and mentoring can give anyone the platform to learn and succeed. Because when one door closes, another door will always open…
DOUBLE ANNOUNCEMENT
We are so excited to welcome two new members to the OWN IT! family.
RAY SHELL
TOMMY ROWLANDS
AYRIES “RAY” SHELL is a film, TV and stage actor, as well as an author, director and producer. He has been a fixture in London’s West End since he arrived in the UK in 1978.
TOMMY ROWLANDS is a London based writer of Lebanese and Welsh heritage. In 2021 he was the recipient of a London Writers Award for literary fiction.
MRS DEATH MISSES DEATH BY SALENA GODDEN
FICTION WINNER OF THE PEOPLES BOOK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS
PUBLISHING NEWS
A coming-of-age novel, alternating between past and present and shifting back and forth from Jamaica and the United States, SASHA KNIGHT picks apart the puzzle left behind when 11-year-old Sasha disappears.
‘Godfrey has crafted a whole host of characters and a world that feels new, but somehow familiar. I flew through the pages.’Candice Carty-Williams, Author of Sunday Times Bestseller People Person
GET YOUR COPY OF SASHA KNIGHT HERE
