The Republic

Dear Wendell

Thank you very much for your email and for your interest in Penguin Random House Australia.

Unfortunately, our submissions are currently closed.

At certain times, we accept unsolicited manuscripts to consider for their suitability for our publishing list.

This is undertaken according to a set of guidelines which you will find on our website https://penguin.com.au - on the Home Page, scroll down to the bottom and under the heading ‘About’ you will find the link to ‘Getting Published’. Then select ‘Adult’ or ‘Children’s’.

This will give you the detailed information needed to submit a manuscript, at the appropriate time.

You will need to give information regarding the present or previous publication status of your project.

You will see that uploading to our portal, when it is open, is required in order to submit an adult manuscript. We no longer accept submissions via email, and we are not able to consider any manuscripts sent at times outside those detailed.

If this screen below appears in response to you uploading your submission, then your manuscript will have been correctly submitted.

We do not send a confirmation email.

We only accept submissions from Australia, New Zealand and all their islands, states and territories.

It is best that the manuscript is in as final a stage as you’d like it to ever be, as we don’t accept re-submissions once we have decided that we are unable to pursue a project towards publication.

Please bear in mind that we do receive a huge volume of enquiries and therefore cannot offer editorial feedback.

Most publishers have details on their websites regarding how to submit to them, if they accept unsolicited manuscripts.

General copyright advice is available at http://www.copyright.com.au

Please refer to the following resources for further information:

• The Australian Publishers Association
• The Australian Literary Agents Association
• The Australian Society of Authors
• Institute of Professional Editors

These sites contain lots of useful material for prospective authors on the editorial and publishing process.

There are also numerous state based writers’ centres that offer workshops and advice on all aspects of the publishing process, such as Writing NSW, Queensland Writers’ Centre, Writers Victoria, ACT Writers Centre https://www.actwriters.org/, Writing WA https://www.writingwa.org/, Tasmanian Writers Centre https://taswriters.org/

With kind regards

On behalf of Submissions Editor

Penguin

Random House