Forthcoming in September: Available to pre-order
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
Huge thanks to everyone who joined our annual SOFY Campaign. This year we aimed for to see 100 books out to readers in the first two weeks of July. Thanks to our readers, writers and bookshop partners we hit our goal and then some, with 184 books heading out into the world. We're immensely grateful to everyone who pitched in and bought a book
Thank you: Kelley Swain, Clare Carlin, Kay Are, Robert Cook, Ian Flavell, Peter Frankis, Shirley Sadler, Ashley Haywood, Paul Carter, Shey Marque, Shelley OReilly, Verity Oswin, Jeni Mulvey, Prudence Upton, Emilie Collyer, Brendon McLeod, Shari Lynelle Kocher, Ash Miles, Me Me, Readings, Lesh Karan, Lorelle Benson, Pam Brown, Suzanne Verrall, Jodie Young, Alma Studholme, Jo Gardiner, Ronald Mizen, Robert Bowler, The Chestnut Tree Bookshop, Narelle Hunter.
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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