Michael Holden

Literary Agent: Eugenie Furniss

Literary Manager for Film, TV and Stage: Kate Prentice

Michael Holden has been writing professionally since the early 1990’s when he was involved in the early years of both Dazed & Confused and Loaded magazines. Published and syndicated around the world, he has worked as a newspaper columnist for The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday, a magazine features writer, has been a contributing editor at Esquire for over a decade, as well as working as a screenwriter, author, and teacher.

As a journalist Michael specializes in arts and creative coverage as well as real life reportage, interviews, profiles, and biography, he has both won and been shortlisted for journalism awards in the UK including PPA and PTC writer of the year. Accustomed to working with A list and emerging talent as both a journalist and collaborator, Michael has rewritten feature projects for Warner Brothers and Disney as well as independent productions.

Michael’s memoir, THE RELUCTANT CARER: Dispatches from the Edge of Life was published anonymously by Picador in 2022. You can read him putting his name to it here.