Publishers

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Eleanor Curtain Publishing specialises in reference and professional development books for primary teachers. The focus is on key curriculum and educational issues with a wide national and international market. All titles are either published under licence or distributed in North America and New Zealand.

Phone
(03) 9867 4880
Address
102 Toorak Road, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141
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Ford Street is a successful small independent Australian publisher of books for children and young adults. Publishes around fifteen titles a year, ranging from picture books through to novels for older readers. Ford Street’s publisher is renowned Australian author, Paul Collins, who has written extensively for both the local and international markets.

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The Giramondo Publishing Company is an independent, Australian, university-based literary publisher of award-winning poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

Tips & General Information
Giramondo Publishing accepts unsolicited submissions for a limited period each year. See website for details.
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Harper Voyager is the fantasy, science fiction, horror, and speculative fiction imprint of HarperCollins.

Submission Information
HarperCollins considers material submitted by literary agents. Occasionally has open submission calls – check website and social media.
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IAD Press is the publishing arm of an Aboriginal-controlled educational institute: the Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD). Specialisation: Aboriginal language materials, oral and natural history, bush foods, cross cultural titles and, under its Jukurrpa imprint, fiction, art and children’s books by Aboriginal authors plus art diaries and calendars.

Phone
(08) 8951 1311
Tips & General Information
Although IAD Press publishes material by Aboriginal authors, it will consider collaborative projects where there has been genuine co-authorship and extensive Aboriginal involvement that has been duly acknowledged.
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Hague Publishing focuses on the emerging e-book market. We are currently accepting submissions for all types of science fiction and fantasy. We publish through the international e-book market.

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Specialises in children’s boardbooks, educational and activity books, adult reference, illustrated and paperback books. Also produces book and video gift boxes, books and DVDs.

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Publishers and wholesalers of quality early childhood teacher resource and reference books.

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Pearson Education Australia is the country’s leading publisher of educational products for the academic, professional, vocational, primary and secondary schools. Specialisation: Educational books for schools, higher education, vocational education, and training and professional training markets.

Tips & General Information
All submitted manuscripts should be for educational purposes or education-related purposes. Acquisitions divided into areas of specialisation; check website for details before submitting a proposal.
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RIC produce workbooks, blackline masters and teacher references for schools.

Tips & General Information
Email for a copy of guidelines, or see website.
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Blake Education produces primary and secondary teaching materials that are useful and user-friendly. Materials are largely written by teachers, for teachers, and cater to the exact needs teachers share and are most appropriate for classroom use. Specialisation: Primary education (reading books, teacher resource material), primary literacy resources, secondary education (teacher resource material).

Tips & General Information
All text supplied must have a demonstrable educational nature or purpose.
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Cambridge University Press is the printing and publishing house of the University of Cambridge. Specialisation: academic publications in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, technical, professional and media sciences as well as primary and secondary education texts.

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Celapene Press publishes children’s fiction and holds the annual Charlotte Duncan Award.

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Catholic book publisher serving the spiritual and educational needs of individuals, groups and the church as a whole.

Tips & General Information
Do not send full manuscripts please. No fiction or poetry.
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Part of an international publishing group in which each home market, such as Australia, is given a very specific local focus with complete autonomy. Specialisation: Australiana, travel and pictorial books on Australia, natural history, information books, cookery, gardening, health and lifestyle, current affairs, biographies and true crime.

Tips & General Information
Your publishing proposal should include a concept outline, chapter-by-chapter summary, target market, a brief biography, key selling points, an indication of similar books on the market and how your proposal is different to others on the market. Also include suggested specifications including preferred format (page size), number of words and pages, number of photos and illustrations and preferred presentation (B&W or colour). No fiction or children’s books please.
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Auckland University Press currently publishes around 25 books a year. With traditional strengths in history and politics, art and architecture, literature and poetry, Maori, Pacific and Asian Studies, the Press is also developing lists in science, business and health.

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Publisher of scholarly books, periodicals and electronic products for all academic disciplines. Under the Arcadia imprint, a publisher of general books, principally history, biography and fiction. Specialisation: Academic and general non-fiction, history, biography, lifestyle, information, corporate, fiction.

Tips & General Information
Australian Scholarly Publishing has a strong interest in the history, heritage and culture of Australia. All submissions should be well researched.
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CSFG Publishing is the small press arm of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild (CSFG) and offers CSFG members an avenue to become published through its anthologies. Specialisation: science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers and illustrators.

Tips & General Information
See website for submission guidelines for each anthology.
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DayStar Books is a publisher of Christian books with a New Zealand angle. They also publish “crossover” books with Christian values but marketable by secular bookstores.

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Tips & General Information
Study our website for guidelines.
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Era Publications is an educational publisher, specialising in levelled readers for junior and primary school children. They publish fiction and nonfiction series, reference books and online products.

Email
Through website contact page
Tips & General Information
Almost all works are commissioned. Publishes titles attractive to a worldwide audience, and rarely publishes non-fiction or Australiana. Themes, setting and characters must be relevant to younger readers, with an emphasis on the interplay of text and illustration. Refer to website under ‘Editor’ for hints to authors and illustrators and for our current briefs and guidelines. Do not contact by phone. Submissions by email only. Does not accept submissions by post, except by prior arrangement.
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Boutique publisher producing non-fiction books. Specialising in history, military history, self-help, autobiography, business, careers, environment, how-to guides, women’s and men’s interest, humour, lifestyle, Indigenous Studies and corporate publications.

Tips & General Information
Read the submission guidelines and have your manuscript ready to go.

Provides large print, daisy and braille versions of existing works. E-books and text conversions.

Tips & General Information
If you have already been published and want to republish, provide all details of first publication. If you have not been published, please send email with description of work.
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Wombat Books has been sharing stories and creating memories with families for over ten years. As an independent boutique publisher, they love to find those unique stories that connect us all. Publishes children’s fiction with pages filled with readable and loveable characters.

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Rhiza Press, Wombat Books and Rhiza Edge open submissions at specific times. Follow submission guidelines and submit only via form available on website.
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Wakefield Press is an independent book publishing company based in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Ventura Press is one of Sydney’s leading independent publishers and has become synonymous with high quality titles and internationally respected authors. The Ventura list covers a unique and specific market – books to enhance life. Ventura publishes books on health and well being, family focus, memoir, general non-fiction and high end fiction.

Phone
(02) 8060 9191
Address
PO Box 780, EDGECLIFFE NSW 2027
Contact Name
Jane Curry, Managing Director
Tips & General Information
Please note that at this time we are not accepting submissions in the genres of children’s fiction and nonfiction, or young adult fiction and nonfiction.