Submission Guidelines

SUBMISSIONS FOR BEST AUSTRALIAN POEMS, STORIES AND ESSAYS 2010

Submission are now open (closing date 30th July 2010).
Please download submission guidelines here.

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS

We have recently changed our submission guidelines. If you have already submitted your work in line with our old guidelines, please don’t worry; we’ll respond to your submission soon. If you are preparing a new submission, however, please follow the guidelines below.

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.

If you do not have access to email, please send the information outlined above, along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope, to:

Submissions
Black Inc.
Level 5, 289 Flinders Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia

Please note, however, that we prefer to receive proposals by email, and that it may take us longer to respond to submissions received by post.