Despite the results of the Lee & Low Books 2023 survey, revealing that 72.5% of the publishing industry predominantly identified as white, Literary Agents of Change and I strive to continue making agenting and publishing more accessible to marginalized communities.

To aid this effort, we launched the Equity Directory in February 2024 to provide BIPOC authors and editors with a database of BIPOC agents.

In a recent interview with Poets & Writers, Inc., vice president of LAoC Katie Kotchman and I shared the impact of the Equity Directory, as well as the success rate of BIPOC agents through mentorship programs that give rising agents the chance to learn from agenting.

You can read the full interview here: https://www.pw.org/content/connecting_writers_to_agents_of_color

 

You can access the Equity Directory database here: https://www.equitydirectory.org/

 

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I’ll know Regina and did not know all of this 🙂 thanks for sharing @richardmurray

My pleasure @Troy I it takes a village

I added the database as a resource: https://aalbc.com/content.php?title=Black+Literary+Agents

cool @Troy