The Purcell Agency may be open or closed to submissions separately by agent. See each Agent's QueryManager.com Account to see if open or not. We do take pitches at conferences, so watch Twitter for upcoming events, and our list of appearances below.

UPCOMING APPEARANCES & PITCH SESSIONS

June 20, 2026 - Chicago Writer's Association, Tina P. Schwartz will be taking pitches at this one day event. (Details TBA)

If querying, please use each agent's individual QueryManager.com submission form, part of QueryTracker.net.  "One Day Unsolicited Query Openings" will continue to be announced sporadically on Twitter/"X" if one of the agents is not open yet. Watch @TPurcellAgency for those announcements. FOR ALL AGENTS Tina and Amy WATCH THEIR TWEETS FOR one-week subs openings and GO TO SUB GUIDELINES PAGE on this site for exact details! Thank you.

AWARDS & NEWS about TPA books...

Leslie Johnson Piotrowski's ESCAPE FROM THE COTTON FIELDS won SCBWI-IL's "Many Voices Prize"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKoJZs6YQGk

IN THE RING (Young Adult fiction by Sierra Isley) made it on the American Library Association's Rainbow Book list in 2025... drive.google.com/file/d/1QAQLQpcBi2MnzW3GhWQ8xK6NQe2rzo67/view
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IN THE RING (Young Adult) by Sierra Isley has been named on a "Must Read" list. Use Link to See... https://georgiacenterforthebook.org/honors-awards/books-all-georgians-and-young-georgians-should-read-2024 










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A MARK IN THE ROAD (Young Adult) by Angelique Burrell has been honored as ILLINOIS' "Soon to be Famous" Illinois Author Project Winner 2023.
https://soontobefamous.info/ 
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TPA Bi-Annual Scholarship Winner:
Steven Salmon
​July 2025

Scholarship Winners to Date: Jan. 2022 - Dannie Olguin, July 2022 - Paul DeStefano, Jan. 2023 - Brittany Plumeri, July 2023 - Ellen Zheng; Jan 2024 Christine Alemshah; July 2024 Jamie Bills; Jan.2025 Melissa Trempe, July 2025 Steven B. Salmon

Link to get to know Steve Salmon more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNFxbl8apV0

Third Annual TPA Writer's Retreat - June 2024
Hyatt-Regency Hotel, Deerfield, IL

​Second Annual TPA Writer's Retreat - July 2023
Embassy Suites in Deerfield, IL

​Photos from FIRST ever TPA Writer's Retreat (Oct'22)

Forthcoming Titles (waiting for cover art)
​coming from TPA Authors...

2025
THE NORTHBOUND TRAIN, Picture Book, by Leslie Johnson Piotrowski (Abrams Books)

Forthcoming
THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN, Picture Book, by Leslie Piotrowski (Abrams Books)

THE CONSEQUENCES OF NORMAL, Women's Fiction, by Elle Baade (Lake Union Publishing; Amazon)

DUNG & BO: Six Book Series, Middle Grade Chapter Books - fiction (STEM), by Melanie Uteg, (ABDO Publishing)  

I'M GOOD; AND THANKS FOR ASKING - The Road to 988, A Story from the One Left Behind, Memoir by Kristina Woodahl (Blackstone Publishing, forthcoming)