• 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.




    • Jamie Grant

    Design Awards shortlist for MC&A

    Friday, February 20th, 2009

    The shortlists for the 57th Annual Australian Book Publishers Design Awards for 2009 have just been announced, and congratulations to the designers and publishers of the books from my list which have been shortlisted. Flitterwig by Edrei Cullen, cover designer Madeline Smith, internal designer Simone Kelleher, publisher Scholastic Australia. Shortlisted for The Best Designed Children’s [...]

    Positive reviews for strongly selling 100 Australian Poems You Need To Know

    Sunday, January 18th, 2009

    100 Australian Poems You Need To Know, edited by Jamie Grant, has been a surprise seller, and is currently reprinting. Here are some selections of the very positive reviews: … for the few that have ears to listen, this volume will be welcomed. (Barry Oakley, The Australian) … the best Australian poetry Christmas book is [...]

    Jamie Grant: 100 Australian Poems
    You Need to Know

    Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

    100 Australian Poems You Need to Know, edited by Jamie Grant and with a foreword from Phillip Adams, is being published by Hardie Grant Books in December. Frustrated by the perception that Australian poetry is dry, inaccessible and preoccupied with the country’s landscape, acclaimed poet Jamie Grant has formed the charming collection 100 Australian Poems [...]