• About

    Margaret Connolly has been a literary agent for more than twenty years, after giving up a career as a lawyer in the mid-1980s.

    She set up her own business in 1992, and since then has developed a client list which resembles a roll-call of Australia's finest novelists, poets, dramatists, non-fiction authors, film-makers, children's writers and illustrators.

    She works from home, on a desk which is covered with papers and one very useful computer.

    The "Associates" in her company's title consist of her husband, three children and a dog named Arthur.




    • Judith Clarke

    2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards – Shortlists

    Thursday, August 5th, 2010

    Congratulations to my authors whose work has been shortlisted in this year’s Prime Minister’s Awards. Harry & Hopper, by Margaret Wild (with Freya Blackwood) has been shortlisted in the Children’s fiction category, and The Winds of Heaven by Judith Clarke, and Swerve, by Phillip Gwynne, have both been shortlisted in the Young adult category.

    Judith Clarke: The Winds of Heaven

    Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

    The final cover for Judith Clarke’s new young adult novel, The Winds of Heaven, which Allen & Unwin will publish in April. When Fan was little she dreamed of magical countries in the faraway blue hills. As she grew up she dreamed of love, and the boys came after her one by one. Clementine thought [...]

    Judith Clarke: The Winds of Heaven

    Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

    Judith Clarke’s new Young Adult novel, The Winds of Heaven, will be published in 2009 by Allen & Unwin. US rights have already been sold to Henry Holt Books. Clementine thought her cousin Fan’s house in the country had a special smell: of sun and dust and kerosene and the wild honey they ate for [...]

    Another award for Judith Clarke

    Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

    Congratulations to Judith Clarke, whose young adult novel One Whole And Perfect Day has just been named as one of the four Honour books in the influential American Library Association, Michael L. Printz Awards, for books which “exemplify literary excellence in young adult literature”, the highest US award for young adult literature. This follows the [...]

    Premier’s Prize for Judith Clarke

    Monday, September 24th, 2007

    Congratulations to Judith Clarke, the winner of the 2007 Queensland Premier’s Prize for Young Adult Fiction, for her novel, One Whole And Perfect Day. Judith is currently working on a new novel, The Winds Of Heaven. One Whole And Perfect Day is published in Australia by Allen & Unwin, and in the USA by Front [...]

    Children’s Book Council 2007 shortlist

    Monday, April 23rd, 2007

    The Children’s Book Council of Australia has just announced its shortlist for 2007, and congratulations to my following authors and illustrator who are short listed: Judith Clarke for One Whole and Perfect Day, Older Readers category. Stephen Michael King, illustrator of Glenda Millard’s Layla, Queen of Hearts, Younger Readers Category. Margaret Wild, for Chatterbox, illustrated [...]