Julia Silk

Julia worked as a bookseller and editor for 18 years - latterly as Publisher of digital crime imprint The Murder Room at Orion - before becoming an agent in 2016, representing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction.

She has an MA in Comparative Literature from UEA.

Julia grew up in London in a noisy Egyptian Jewish family, and is strongly committed to increasing representation and accessibility for writers across the industry.

She regularly supports and contributes to the work of organisations and events such as Word Factory, Spread the Word, Byte the Book and the Working Class Writers Festival, through workshops, panel events, 1-2-1s and mentoring.

She has been a judge on emerging writer prizes including the Bath Novel Award and the Bournemouth Writing Prize.