Wakefield Press is a leading independent publishing company based in South Australia. We love good stories and publish beautiful books. We publish on a diverse range of topics, including fiction, history, biography, art, food, and the environment. We also have a dedicated young adult list.
Fremantle Press is an independent publishing company based in Western Australia. For over 40 years we have published books by new and established writers and artists across a range of genres including fiction, non-fiction, Indigenous writing, poetry and children’s literature. Our books have won national and international awards and have been published in many territories around the world. Each year we have an exciting new list of books which we would love to share with you. Please see www.fremantlepress.com.au for details on all our new and backlist titles.
BOOKS THAT SOAR Pilyara Press is the brainchild of a trail-blazing group of professional writers who left behind the Goliath world of publishing to form an independent small press. Founded by best-selling author Jennifer Scoullar, Pilyara Press offers readers a diverse and distinctive range of books that have one thing in common – they are page-turners. In 2018 Scoullar was joined by a group of traditionally-published authors – formerly of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster – and they pioneered a new concept in small publishing rooted in cooperative community spirit. Scoullar says Pilyara Press is a galvanising new vision of how publishing can be done, with and by professional authors. ‘We’re all multi-skilled professionals,’ says Scoullar. ‘As well as our own unique brand of fiction, each of us brings a specific skill set to the group. ‘We want to cast off the restrictions and compromise of the traditional publishing model. We want to access the global market through digital publishing on our own terms. We want control over what we write; we want to be true to our art and standards. Without the commercial imperatives of corporate publishing, we can do that. Profit is not our bottom line. Quality and creative integrity is.’ The PP team has now expanded to include eight talented members who bring wide collective experience in marketing, media, publishing, editing/proofing, project and contract management. Pilyara Press plans to continue to expand its network in the future. Pilyara – an Australian Indigenous word for Eagle – is the name of Jennifer’s family bushland property in Victoria, Australia.
Simon & Schuster Australia is part of the CBS Corporation and is a major force in today’s publishing industry, dedicated to bringing an extensive range of books, in all formats, into the hands of readers. Simon & Schuster Australia publishes and distributes a variety of books in Australia and New Zealand across a range of genres including fiction, non-fiction and children’s books under our local and international imprints. These include Atria, Free Press, Gallery, Howard, Pocket, Scribner, Simon & Schuster and Touchstone. Simon & Schuster Australia also acts as the local sales and distribution partner for: 4 Ingredients, Berbay Publishing, Big Sky Publishing, Black Library, Cider Mill Press, Elliott & Thompson, Fox Chapel Publishing International, Gallup Press, Hazelden, Hunter Publishers, Inner Traditions, Insight Editions, Manuscript Publishing, Pegasus Books, Printers Row, Regan Arts, Rockpool Publishing, Smith Street Books, Ventura Press, Viz Media, Waterhouse Press, Weldon Owen and Wild Dog Books.
SPINELESS WONDERS is a multi-platform publishing company devoted toshort, quality fiction produced by Australian writers. We’re interestedin brief fiction in all its forms – from short short stories to novella. We also publish ‘microlit’, a unique blend of microfiction andprose poetry.
