Manuscript Mart Description
Marin Takikawa is an agent and foreign rights director at The Friedrich Agency. She's looking for subversive, genre-bending literary fiction, intersectional narrative nonfiction, and voice-driven and literary-leaning YA. Learn more.
Marin Takikawa's Availability during Manuscript Mart Week:
- Tuesday, May 5: 10:00–7:00 EDT
- Wednesday, May 6: 10:00–3:00 & 4:00–7:00 EDT
- Thursday, May 7: 10:00–7:00 EDT
- Friday, May 8: 10:00–1:00 EDT
Please register with Marin Takikawa ONLY if you can be available within the time windows above.
Back to Manuscript Mart: Agents and Editors
Manuscript Mart appointments will take place over Zoom. Zoom links and schedule times will be assigned mid-April in 2026 and be emailed to each participant by 11:59 PM EDT on April 23, 2026. Meetings will run twenty minutes and be scheduled to start on the half-hour during each agent or editor's availability windows.