Longrigg to retire from MBA Literary Agents after 25 years 

Laura Longrigg is retiring at the end of September 2022 after 25 years at MBA Literary Agents as an agent and director of the company. 

Longrigg started her publishing career as assistant to Mic Cheetham at Abner Stein, before becoming an editor at HarperCollins, Hutchinson Heinemann and Penguin. In 1994 she joined Jennifer Kavanagh’s agency. 

Since 1997 she has been a literary agent at MBA, where her clients have included Clare Morrall, Alex Dahl, Cathy Woodman and Rosanna Ley.

Longrigg said: “I’ve had a wonderful career, as an editor and then agent, and MBA has been a very special place to work all these years. I am particularly proud to have set up the Harry Bowling Prize for unpublished fiction, in memory of one of our favourite clients, sponsored by Headline, which ran for 12 years and launched the careers of several now successful novelists.”

MBA managing director Diana Tyler said: “We thank Laura for her many years of dedicated service to her clients and to MBA and wish her all the best in her retirement. Her clients will be looked after by other members of the MBA team.”

Longrigg can now be contacted on her personal email address, laurajlongrigg@gmail.com.