Author Guidelines
Submission Format
We only accept submissions via our website. No hard cover or email submissions are accepted.
Geographic Service Area
We accept manuscripts from writers located anywhere in the world but focus on writers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Whilst we specialise in non-fiction and poetry, we welcome submissions from other genres subject to the below information.
Non-fiction
We favour a focus on matters of social, cultural, historical, or political concern. Previous publication is not essential. Maximum word limit is 200,000. Have a book idea in mind? See the ‘Book Proposal’ section below.
Poetry and Literary Poetry
We look for manuscripts that combine emotion with evocative imagery. Social awareness is looked on favourably.
Fiction
We seek manuscripts that are socially aware and combine emotion with talented storytelling. Maximum word limit is 100,000.
Pictorial
We look for beautiful photos that are interesting and socially aware. A text component is required as part of all pictorial books.
Young Adult (YA) and Children
We are not accepting manuscripts from these categories at this time.
Book Proposals – Non-fiction only
Where the full manuscript for a non-fiction book has not yet been completed, a book proposal can be submitted in place of the full manuscript containing a sample chapter, table of contents (chapter list), and detailed book outline, alongside a cover letter with the same information as stated above. Formatting requirements for a book proposal are the same as outlined above.
Advances and Royalties
Not all offers to publish a book will include an advance paid to the author against future royalties. Not being offered an advance is by no means a reflection on the quality of your work nor on you as an author. Rather, an advance is based on a number of factors, including the market for the book and whether we deem it better to focus our resources on the production and promotion of the book so that sales perform better and you earn more royalties. Regardless of whether an advance is offered, all of our authors receive a fair share of royalties from any books we publish. The details of royalties and payment frequency will be contained in the contract you receive if we decide to make an offer to publish your book.
Our Business Model
We are a traditional publisher. We will never ask an author in our traditional publishing programme to pay towards the publication of their book. We carefully select books for our publishing programme and we take on the financial responsibility for publishing books through that programme.