Sam Hiyate
The Rights Factory
Likely Open
Updated: 11/4/2025
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Sam Hiyate is keen to discover new voices and help writers prepare their works for market and build lasting careers.
In the past two decades with The Rights Factory, his hundreds of book deals have resulted in several bestsellers.
He is the host of the podcast Agent Provocateur and regularly appears at writers conferences.
He also teaches publishing at Toronto Metropolitan University and Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.
Before The Rights Factory, he ran the literary division of The Lavin Agency in 2003 and worked as editor and publisher for the small press Gutter Press from 1993 to 2002.
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- Molly Roden Winter
- Jillian Tamaki
- Mariko Tamaki
- Oonagh Duncan
- Jonathan Tepper
- Denise Hearn
- Jennifer Close
- Bronwyn Fischer
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- This One Summer
- Healthy Af (ditch The Diet)
- The Myth Of Capitalism
- Girls In White Dresses
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