OPEN CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
We are starting to plan our list for 2027 and 2028. We are looking for collections of poetry, short stories, essays, novellas, novels, art books and memoir.
We will be accepting new manuscripts from July 14-17, 2026.
2026 SOFY CAMPAIGN
Our annual Start of the Financial Year Campaign is on now: July 1-15.
Each year we ask our readers and writers if they will buy just one book at the start of July to kick off a new year of small press publishing. We've marked down our 440pp anthology Living Systems for the campaign. Or for the true believers, order up the mysterious September new releases bundle (flowers not included).
We'd love to see a 1000 books sold, but we're realistic and aiming to see just 100 books on their way to readers over the next two weeks. It's a small goal but hopefully achievable.
At the end of the first day, we're 16 books closer to our goal of 100.
If you like what we do, join the campaign and buy a book. Each book ordered, helps us create space for new writing.
'How to Emerge' by Jill Jones wins the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry 2026
'What pathways can humans explore to find growth, understanding and even peace? The task for any poet exploring these themes is to proceed free of sentimentality, cliché or proselytisation. How To Emerge navigates these challenges with a combination of lyrical clarity and astonishing imagery. Jill Jones demonstrates an overarching sense of control as the poems unfurl an exploration of both language and lives. There is a quiet, depth-defying resonance throughout the book as it skates between sky, asphalt, weed, wharf, vulnerability and memory.
The possibilities for self are made endless through observation of the infinitesimal and ephemeral. Meaning emerges incrementally through rhythm, image and pause. Jones demonstrates a mastery of catalogue and repetition; with each reconfiguration, the world appears new, providing both answer and question.
Jones masterfully clips fragments of fact, inquiry and observation into a whispered wonder. These poems discover humanity, perhaps even meaning in the accumulating weight of the world; we are star dust, but we are also the brat summer. Part of the appeal of these poems is the rare faith they show in the reader, a belief that readers will find their own meaning and carry from the collection something of the warmth, humour and care that radiates from the poems.'
NSW Premier's Literary Awards judges
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'This book is the business! Smart-mouthed, pussy-bowed. Pitch perfect filthy snippets of office lore and career advice.'
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