The Denise Shannon Literary Agency is a New York-based boutique agency with a distinguished list of fiction and nonfiction authors. Particular areas of specialty include literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, biography, journalism, politics, social history, health and business. The agency’s clients have received numerous awards and honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award finalist medal, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.

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The Antidote Longlisted for Two Awards

Karen Russell’s THE ANTIDOTE was longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Both awards will announce the winning titles in March 2026.

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