• 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.




    • Awards

    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.

    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 [...]