Originate Literary Agency (OLA) is a multi-media agency representing a diverse range of writers, creatives and original content creators making change through storytelling. Clients include the actor David Harewood, his book Maybe I Don’t Belong Here, A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery was one of the Observer’s best memoirs of 2021 and shortlisted for a 2022 British Book Award; Comedian, writer, actor, philanthropist and co-founder of Comic Relief, Sir Lenny Henry whose middle-grade series The Boy With Wings title for World Book Day 2023 was a number one bestseller, World Boxing Champion and Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist Amir Khan’s memoir to be published autumn 2023 and venture capitalist, entrepreneur and technology executive Eric Collins whose first book We Don’t Need Permission: How Black Business Can Change Our World (2022) was highly commended at the 2023 Business Book Awards.
