With a successful list of award-winners and bestsellers that has steadily built over the last few years, we began to receive a far greater number of submissions than our small team could adequately assess and respond to.

On top of that, with a change in our work environment and the industry as a whole, it has been quite difficult to find quality time to give submissions our full attention.

With this in mind we have made the difficult decision to keep the submissions portal closed indefinitely. We would like to thank everyone who made a submission in July for General Fiction and we can’t wait to read your manuscripts!

We are passionate about finding and developing great new works and recognise the value of an open submission process, particularly to debut authors. We apologise that we cannot keep the submission portal open at this time.

Thank you for understanding.

We hope you are all staying well and looking after loved ones.

Team Echo

Before submitting a manuscript or proposal to Echo Publishing, please do some research. Familiarise yourself with the genre we are accepting for the current submission cycle, the genres we publish overall and if there are existing titles that have something in common with your book – it’s helpful to mention them as a point of reference.

We are mainly looking for fiction and narrative nonfiction for an adult (or crossover) audience. We want to publish Australian authors, but we want the books also to have global appeal, as we work closely with our UK sister imprints.

All submissions should be double-spaced, in a readable 12-point font, with numbered pages. It is also important to ensure that your name and address are on the manuscript itself, as well as in your proposal/synopsis.

Include with your manuscript:

• a brief covering letter (no more than a page), including the date and full contact details (author’s name, postal address, phone and email)
• a synopsis of the project, including the total word count
• a brief biographical note on the author (about 150 words)
• for fiction, send the full manuscript
• for nonfiction, send the full manuscript or the first 10,000 words of the manuscript

If your submission looks promising, we will be in touch.

Unfortunately we are unable to give specific feedback on your manuscript or suggest ways in which it might be improved. We are also unable to respond to queries by telephone, so please don’t call to check on the progress of your submission.

We cannot return posted submissions.

We are okay with you making multiple submissions to publishers rather than waiting for our response, but please let us know in your cover letter if this is your intention. We endeavour to respond within three months of receipt of submissions but this is dependent on the number awaiting review at any given time.