Wadzanai Mhute’s new outfit, Antsu Literary Agency, is actively seeking fiction and nonfiction clients with a focus on Black and African authors.
Zimbabwe-born US-based Wadzanai Mhute isn’t a new name to anyone who follows the literary business. She is an author, journalist, and former books editor at Oprah Daily and Oprah’s Book Club, where she edited and wrote about authors and books, helping to shape literary conversations on diverse platforms.
Wadzanai, who is currently serving on the National Book Critics Circle Board, has degrees from Brooklyn College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her short stories have been published in Journeys Home: An Anthology of Contemporary African Diasporic Experience (Africa World Press, 2009), One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories (New Internationalist, 2009), and Women Writing Zimbabwe (Weaver Press, 2008), as well as several publications including Per Contra, The Warwick Review, and Farafina.
She has also written articles and essays for Oprah Daily, The New York Times, The Guardian, ABC News, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and People Magazine, among others, and won the MacDowell Fellowship in 2016.
Antsu Literary Agency is a new initiative with a vision to champion diverse voices and ensure that stories from all corners of the world find their place in the literary landscape. Its founder’s deep understanding of both the creative process and the publishing industry makes her an invaluable advocate for the authors she represents.
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