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An independent publisher established over 20 years ago with offices in London and Sydney. Aurora Metro have published authors such as Germaine Greer, Suchen Christine Lim, Avi Sirlin, Sandro Martini, and more. Publishes fiction, non-fiction, biography, drama and playscripts, travel, and cookery books.

Phone
+44 (0)203 261 0000
Address
20 Carrington Avenue, MOSMAN NSW 2088
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Adult literary fiction, non-fiction and fantasy. No poetry, screenplays, plays, or children’s. Please phone or email first to determine whether your kind of writing is of interest. Please let us know if any agents or publishers have seen any versions of the work. Member of the Australian Literary Agents’ Association.

Phone
(02) 98188557
Address
2A Booth Street, BALMAIN NSW 2041
Contact Name
Lyn Tranter, Agent
Submission Information
• Submission guidelines available at website • Initial contact: phone• Submit sample chapters, resume • Submission preference: email • Average response time: six weeks.
Tips & General Information
Currently accepting unsolicited submissions.
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Work represented: Non-fiction, especially travel narrative, memoir, biography, natural history. Most fiction considered including YA but NO speculative, fantasy, children’s, or poetry. Contact initially by phone or email. Please call during normal business hours Monday to Friday.

Phone
+64 (0) 224 328 728
Contact Name
Sally Bird, Director/Owner
Tips & General Information
Do not email complete manuscript unless asked to do so. Research the market. Analyse any competing titles. If there is nothing on your topic already, it could be because there is no market. Remember, good writers are also readers.
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Canongate has emerged as one of the most dynamic publishing houses in Britain. With a distinctly international outlook, Canongate Books continues to nurture and publish new talent from around the world, whilst retaining the essence of the Scottish Canon.

Phone
0131 557 5111
Address
14 High Street, EDINBURGH EH1 1TE SCOTLAND
Tips & General Information
Do not send submissions by fax, email, or disk. Rejected hard copies will not be returned.

Each year, early career writers of migrant background are invited to apply for the Deborah Cass prize. The prize is in the memory of Deborah Cass. The granddaughter of Jewish immigrants, Deborah Cass became a prize-winning professor of International Law at the London School of Economics. After diagnosis of cancer, Deborah left her academic career and focused on creative writing. She had a number of short fiction pieces published, but was unable to realise her aim to complete a novel. With generous support from family and friends, this prize aims to help…

Phone
(03) 9094 7855
Address
Level 3, The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000
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Organiser
Writers Victoria and the Deborah Cass Prize Committee
Frequency
Every year

Branch of Institute of Professional Editors Limited (IPEd). Association of publishing professionals, including editors, designers, illustrators, typesetters, proofreaders, desktop publishers and publishing consultants dedicated to excellence in publishing in Queensland. Seminars and workshops are held regularly.

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Harbour Publishing House was founded by Michelle and Garry Evans in 2012. With over 25 combined years experience in the industry, Harbour Publishing is set to be a unique opportunity for those who live or identify with the coast to showcase their writing, art, music, film, cooking, photography.

Mobile
0427 096 962
Address
Shop 5 Rowen’s Arcade, 93 Princes Hwy ULLADULLA NSW 2539
Contact Name
Garry Evans
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Founded by Rebecca Starford and Hannah Kent, Kill Your Darlings (KYD) is one of Australia’s leading arts and culture magazines. Beginning life as a print quarterly in 2010, KYD is today a vibrant and eclectic online magazine of commentary, essays, interviews, fiction and reviews.

Address
713 Brunswick Street North, FITZROY NORTH 3068 VIC
Contact Name
Rebecca Starford, Editor-in-Chief
Paying Market
Yes
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Tips & General Information
We encourage writers from diverse backgrounds and at all levels of experience to pitch and submit to KYD.
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Margaret River Press is an indepdendent, innovative Western Australian publisher. Publishes high-end literary fiction, crime, the best short stories currently being written in Australia and beautifully designed leisure and lifestyle titles.

Phone
(08) 9757 6009
Mobile
0409 549 311
Address
PO Box 47, WITCHCLIFFE WA 6286
Tips & General Information
Submissions should be presented in 12 point font, with double line spacing, a header with the title, name of author and footer with page numbers. Left and right hand margins at 3.5 cm. Please ensure that titles, headings and textual breaks are clearly marked.
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MidnightSun loves beautiful, unusual, striking, sexy and challenging books and takes pride in publishing exciting new Australian writers who might have been rejected elsewhere. MidnightSun books have won the Commonwealth Book Prize, been honoured by the CBCA awards, and more.

Contact Name
Anna Solding, Managing Director

The Newcastle Writers Festival is a community event that shines the spotlight on local and nationally significant literary talent.

Frequency
Every year
Date/s
September
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Rhiza Press aims to publish exceptional stories and deliver fresh, family friendly titles in a wide variety of genres for people who love books. Rhiza Press is the adult and young adult fiction imprint of Wombat Books.

Address
PO Box 302, CHINCHILLA QLD 4413
Paying Market
Yes
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Simon & Schuster Australia is part of the CBS Corporation and is a major force in today’s publishing industry, dedicated to bringing an extensive range of books, in all formats, into the hands of readers. Simon & Schuster Australia publishes and distributes a variety of books in Australia and New Zealand across a range of genres including fiction, non-fiction and children’s books.

Phone
(02) 99836600
Tips & General Information
Not currently accepting unsolicited material.
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Soft Skull titles are a mix of fresh, cutting-edge, and literary voices. Soft Skull publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and anthologies, all of which collectively focus on current affairs and politics, counterculture, music, history, memoir, biography, religion, and philosophy. Originally founded in New York City, Soft Skull’s office moved to Berkeley, California in 2010.

Phone
(510) 704-0230
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Tips & General Information
Fiction manuscripts for Soft Skull may be submitted only through a recognized literary agency. Please do not send original material, as it will not be returned to you. Soft Skull does accept unagented non-fiction.
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Spinifex Press is an independent publisher with a focus on literary and feminist writing. Spinifex has developed a number of strong specialist lists including Indigenous, writing from Asia and Africa, lesbian books as well as women’s health, violence against women, racism and cultural opportunism, ecology and economics, war and exile, prostitution and pornography.

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The Queensland Memory Awards are dedicated to supporting researchers of all kinds to interpret the collections of the John Oxley Library.  Through deep engagement and interaction with the collections, these interpretations provide new insights into the collection and contribute new knowledge about Queensland’s history.

Phone
(07) 3842 9847
Address
Cultural Precinct, Stanley Place, SOUTH BRISBANE QLD 4101
Contact Name
Awards Coordinator
Paying Market
Yes
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Organiser
State Library of Queensland
Frequency
Every year
Date/s
Submissions are due in March.
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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.

The Adelaide Writers’ Week is Adelaide’s premier literary festival.

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Publishes science fiction, fantasy and horror stories, and poems. Welcomes new and established writers and artists. Has a preference for lighter, amusing styles of science fiction and fantasy, but will also consider more serious work for publication.

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Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Cooperative

The Australian Society of Authors runs a national program of events every year for emerging and professional authors covering topics such as marketing and publicity, self-promotion, social media, ebooks and digital publishing, self-publishing, pitching your work, getting published, copyright, contracts and more.

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Frequency
Each month

The Bath Novel Award is an annual £2,000 prize for  prize for unpublished and self-published or independently published novelists in any genre written for adult or young adult (13+) readers. The award is open to writers of any nationality, genre and perspective and has a strong track record in helping emerging writers to further their writing careers. 2019 dates to be confirmed.

The Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival is unique among Australian writers’ festivals in being situated in the magnificent natural environs of the Bellingen River and Dorrigo World Heritage rainforest. The program focuses exclusively on Australian writers to showcase the diversity of talent in this country.

Bendigo Writers Festival aims to provide a forum to meet and talk about books and writing, and, mostly, to enjoy the conviviality of a festival set in View Street, Bendigo.

The Bendigo Writers Council helps facilitate the literary talent that exists in central Victoria by bringing together writers, poets and performers to share their work. The Council holds workshops and poetry readings monthly at various venues around Bendigo. It publishes a monthly newsletter, ‘Muse News’, available for members, who also receive discounts to all workshops. New members welcome.

Betty Trask left a bequest to the Society of Authors in 1983 to fund prizes for first novels written by authors under the age of 35 in a traditional or romantic, but not experimental, style.

Organiser
Society of Authors