Publishers
A small independent publishing house seeking literary, general, women’s, romance, young adult, fantasy, and science fiction novels longer than 80,000 words. Details available on the website.
Hot Key Books publishes books for teenagers and young adults. Hot Key publishes stand out, quality fiction that people like to talk about.
Maori-owned and operated publishing company, specialising in high-quality Maori books of regional, national and international interest.
Hybrid Publishers titles include: legal, non-fiction (fitness and well-being, fitness, nutrition, true crime, self-help, history etc) and some fiction and poetry. Legal titles: Law Crest imprint. YA: Ford Street imprint. Alternative contact: Anna Rosner Blay, Managing Editor.
Icon Books is an independent British publisher formed in 1992 which publishes popular, engaging and sometimes provocative non-fiction for adults.
The Images Publishing Group publishes architecture and interior design titles. Specialisation: illustrated books on architecture and design. Occasionally publishes on fashion, photography, landscape architecture, graphic design and architectural illustration. Peleus Press, established by Images Publishing Group, publishes fashion, new age, motoring and equine titles.
Specialisation: educational (primary and secondary); non-fiction (handbooks and manuals); fiction (novels, story books and readers).
Jo Fletcher Books is part of the Quercus family, a small but perfectly formed list publishing the very best in best science fiction, fantasy and horror. JFB authors are writing critically acclaimed, award-winning and unputdownable novels right across the fantastical spectrum, encompassing everything from crime to literary fiction.
Kensington Publishing Corp. is located in New York City and is known as “America’s Independent Publisher.” It remains a multi-generational family business. As the foremost independent commercial publishing house in the United States providing hardcover, trade paperback, mass market, and digital releases, Kensington publishes the books American wants to read.
Lansdowne Publishing concentrates on publishing for the international market. Specialisation: quality, illustrated non-fiction books such as cookery, gardening, gift books, health and lifestyle, home and design, New Age, history, mythology and general interest. Our new Australian list will focus on Australian interest titles in all areas and will concentrate on black and white books.
Award-winning partnership publisher of children’s books, teaming aspiring authors with professional editing, illustration, design, printing, distribution, marketing and promotion.
New Frontier Publishing produces titles for children. Specialisation: Children’s picture books, junior readers (6-8), junior novels (8-12), educational texts for primary and secondary school.
NewSouth Publishing is the publishing arm of UNSW Press. Recognised as a leading independent Australian publisher, it produces a range of general, literary and illustrated non-fiction and select scholarly titles across three imprints: NewSouth; UNSW Press; and CHOICE.
Nosy Crow is a small, multi-award-winning, independent company. Nosy Crow publishes high-quality, commercial fiction and non-fiction books for children aged from 0 to 14 by well-known authors and illustrators and by new talent.
Odlum & Garner produce a range of educational books for secondary school students, plus Create-a-Calendar. Top students and Science teachers use and recommend Odlum & Garner books. These books are produced by Science teachers for Science teachers and their students.
As publishers of a wide range of books on New Zealand, the Pacific and Asia, Otago places special emphasis on history, literature and the arts, and natural and social sciences.
Oxford University Press has branches in Australia and New Zealand. Overall aim is to uphold standards of and further education. Specialisation: primary, secondary and higher education; English language teaching; dictionaries and reference; academic, professional and general.
Pacific Books is an Australian book publisher that specialises in paperback books and e-books. Unlike traditional publishers, Pacific Books has a fast turn-around from manuscript to publication and distribution. Books are usually available one month after submission through our partnership with Amazon stores and Ingram Worldwide Distribution.
Paper Road Press specialises in science fiction and fantasy, all things in between – and things from the fringes, too. We want to see magical realism, urban fantasy, space opera, secondary worlds, time travel, myths and legends, crossovers and reimaginings; the familiar made unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar.
Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd is a major publishing force in New Zealand.
Picadilly Press, an imprint of Bonier publishing, publishes books for children and middle grades.
Pitt Street Poetry is a specialist publisher of contemporary poetry and selected reprints of modern classics. It was founded by Linsay and John Knight in Sydney in 2012 and since then has published over 30 poetry books by 18 fine poets.
Post Pressed is a small-scale publisher. Specialisation: Academic books and verse.
PressPress publishes poetry chapbooks.
The Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) was founded in 1972 and is the most successful teaching organisation of its kind in Australia. Specialisation: Primary teacher resources; education-focused research and materials.