“Don’t wait for permission”
Christina Pickworth, Zoe Ross, Queenie Miller and more on what makes them keep reading a script. The first panel of State of the Story London 2026 at the BFI.
Literary Agent, United Agents
Zoe Ross is a literary agent at United Agents, where she has worked for nearly 17 years. Following degrees in modern languages and psychoanalysis, she began her career selling translation rights, before moving on to selling book-to-screen rights and developing her own list of authors, which ranges from prize-winning literary novelists to bestselling commercial fiction, from investigative journalism to chart-topping celebrity memoir, and much in between.
Christina Pickworth, Zoe Ross, Queenie Miller and more on what makes them keep reading a script. The first panel of State of the Story London 2026 at the BFI.