Submissions for Best Australian Poems, Stories and Essays 2010 are now closed. Please check this website early in 2011 for next year’s submission guidelines.

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS

Black Inc. is happy to consider proposals for general non-fiction, including history, current affairs, biography and memoir, and for fiction. Black Inc. does not accept unsolicited proposals for poetry or children’s books. Please take a look around our website to get a sense of the range of books we publish.

If you would like us to consider your work for publication, please send an email to submissions@blackincbooks.com containing:

• A short (up to 1000-word) synopsis of your work
• An indication of the total word count of your manuscript
• A list of your previous publications and any other relevant information about yourself
• For fiction submissions only, please attach three sample chapters as a Word
  document.

We aim to respond to all submissions within eight weeks. If we’d like to read more of your manuscript, we will let you know by email. We prefer not to discuss submissions by telephone or in person, and we cannot provide detailed editorial feedback.