Maggie Sadler is a literary agent with Corvisiero Literary.
Maggie earned her joint Masters with honors in Comparative Literature and English from the historic University of St Andrews and her Masters in Literary Studies from Memorial University of Newfoundland, where her literary interests ranged from folklore retellings to nineteenth-century maritime adventure fiction, and interrogating audience reception across creative mediums. Outside of the agency space, Maggie also works as an editor and writing coach. Maggie marries these complimentary experiences with an intentional, intelligent, and growth-minded approach as a literary agent.
Maggie primarily seeks literary and upmarket adult fiction with distinct character voices, lyrical prose, and propulsive plots. She loves books that unapologetically challenge and deconstruct genre, narrative, or structural conventions—books that take risks. She appreciates a careful, restrained hand with fabulist elements, one that gently asks the reader to reconsider the boundary between the real and the fantastic. Above all, Maggie craves stylish writing and wholly unique concepts that leave her feeling devastated over the palpable talent.
She is seeking:
- Literary fiction written in lyrical, artful prose with carefully crafted tension
- Literary fiction with speculative flavors—let’s get weird
- Upmarket fiction, especially with emotionally complex characters who explore evocative settings
- Untold and/or underrepresented historical fiction (pre-twentieth century, please)
- Urban Fantasy/Magical Realism rooted in our reality
- Folk and fairy tale retellings—the more stunning the twist, the better
- Work from Indigenous/First Nations authors, as well as other historically marginalized and underrepresented voices
- Narratives that interrogate themes of cultural identity, femininity, family legacy, rebellion against tradition, and self-discovery from a fresh, unorthodox perspective
An experienced traveler, Maggie also welcomes nonfiction travel narratives depicting remote locations and thought-provoking encounters in a raw, authentic, and intentional narrative voice.
Maggie is not looking to acquire high fantasy, hard sci-fi, commercial romance, or children’s books at this time.
Maggie would love to discover the next…
- Poet turned prose writer
- Folklore retelling of ambitious, perhaps even monstrous, women who are willing to sacrifice love for power
- An eerie, evocative Gothic setting à la Wuthering Heights
- Endearing and cozy upmarket fiction with the gentlest touch of magic, one that strikes the same notes, atmospherically, as Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle