Frames of Reference: Literary Agents

John Patrick McHugh is from Galway. His work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Tolka, Winter Papers, Banshee and The Tangerine and been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He is the author of the short story collection Pure Gold and the novel Fun and Games.

Angelique Tran Van Sang is a Literary Agent at Felicity Bryan Associates. She joined FBA in 2021, after seven years working at Bloomsbury Publishing, where she worked with authors such as Kamila Shamsie and Reni Eddo-Lodge and published authors such as Olivia Sudjic and Saba Sams (both named Granta Best of Young British novelists). Her authors at FBA include Amy Key, K Patrick, Louise Hegarty, Mona Arshi and John Patrick McHugh, amongst many others, and their work has won or been nominated for a range of prizes and accolades, from the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize and the once every decade Granta Best of Young British Novelists, to the Edge Hill Prize, Sunday Times Short Story Award, Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Their work has appeared in a range of publications including The Paris Review, New York Review of Books, Stinging Fly, Granta, London Review of Books and The Drift. Angelique was a board member of the Writing Squad (a development programme for writers aged 16–21 living, working or studying in the north of England), a co-founder of the Stinging Fly/FBA Fiction Prize, and was named a Bookseller Rising Star in 2020.