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IP Rolling Picks

After 11 years of awards to the best and brightest author in Australia and New Zealand, from 1 August 2012 the IP Picks Awards have been succeeded by the IP Rolling Picks Program. The categories you can apply to are the same as before: Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Poetry, YA and Children's Prose, and First Book. You can still apply to more than one category for each submission.

What's the difference? IP Picks was an annual competition, opening from 1 October and closing 1 December, with guaranteed awards for the winning entry in its five categories. IP Rolling Picks offers continuous entry from 1 March to 1 December. Entries received will be shortlisted monthly. Our Editorial Board will meet twice yearly to pick between shortlisted entries, on or about 1 September and 1 April, respectively. Those picked will be offered royalty contracts for global physical and eBook publication and be in the running for the annual IP Picks Book of the Year Award in each category, decided by April 1 each year.

Key Features of the Rolling Picks Program

• IP is now open to proposals from authors and agents world-wide in the genres covered by our adult and children's imprints (previously, we were only open to submissions from Australians and New Zealanders).

• Initial entries must be accompanied by a reading fee of AU$77 per category (GST-inclusive for Australian entrants) or AU$70 / US$75 for international entrants, except for published authors and applicants eligible for a concession – see below. As a bonus, entrants may nominate a free Pick of any IP branded title in either physical or eBook editions for Australian residents or eBook (pdf or ePub) for international entrants. Initial submission packages must consist of a letter of introduction, a synopsis of the work and a representative sample of 5% of the work (see our Guidelines for further information).

• Initial entries are read in order of receipt by IP staff. Those of promise will be invited to submit a complete manuscript as a digital file (Word / Pages / PDF) for possible shortlisting. The reading fee for a complete project is AU$399 (for Australian residents, GST-inclusive) or AU$365 / US$370 for international authors. For authors/illustrators of illustrated children's picture books, the fee is AU$299 / AU$275 or US$280. Included in this fee is a Reader's Report of 2-4 pages outlining the strengths and weaknesses of the project and recommendations for improving it.

Ready to enter? Download the entry form as a Word or pdf file now.

• Once you receive your Reader's Report, we encourage you to revise and, if you choose, to resubmit the manuscript again. At this point, the entry will be read and discussed at our next monthly Editorial Board meeting. Those entries of sufficient merit will be shortlisted and you'll be told if your manuscript has advanced to the next stage. If it hasn't, we may invite you to prepare a Follow-up Reader's Report on your project after which you will be able to submit it again. The fee for this is AU$299 / AU$275 or $US280. You may resubmit up to two times following your initial Reader's Report.

• At our twice-yearly Board meeting, we'll decide on a list of up to 20 projects for royalty contracts offers. Short-listed titles that don't make the cut will be eligible for a follow-up Reader's Report at the fee of AU$299 / AU$275 and will be guaranteed short-listing for the next twice-yearly Board meeting.

• Australian Picks selections will be offered guaranteed conventional print and POD publication (with an option to be published in eBook versions as well). International Picks winners will be offered POD and eBook publication in the major formats available at the time (currently optimised pdf, ePub and .mobi).

• Further, at the judges' discretion, there may be Picks Winners in each of the five categories, chosen from the Picks Selections in each category, essentially making them Book of the Year in their category.

• Exemptions and Concessions. You may apply to us for an exemption from the initial entry fee if you 1) are an author with at least one book credit from a recognised national publisher; or 2) you are a full-time student or pension card holder (proof required). Concession card holders are also eligible for a 20% discount on Reader's Reports and Follow-up Reports.

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Here's a list of IP Picks winners up to 2012. We encourage you to click through to see the quality of our titles.

Peter Kay Blood		Best Fiction 2012
Simon Kleinig Frenchmans Cap		Best Creative Non-Fiction 2012
Margaret Owen Ruckert musefood		Best Poetry 2012
Janet Reid Granny Rags		Best Young Adult / Junior Prose 2012
Karen Zelas Night's Glass Table		Best First Book 2012
Guy Salvidge Yellowcake Springs		Best Fiction 2011
Lois Shepheard The Rag Boiler's Daughter		Best Creative Non-Fiction 2011
Laura Jan Shore Water Over Stone		Best Poetry 2011
Janet Reid The Ruby Bottle		Best Junior Prose 2011
Keith Westwater Tongues of Ash		Best First Book
Olwyn Conrau The Importance of Being Cool		Best Creative Non-Fiction 2010
Daniel King Memento Mori		Best Fiction 2010
Lynn Reeves Designs on the Body		Best Poetry 2010
James Laidler The Taste of Apple		Best First Book 2010
Juliet Blair Arlo and the Spindrift Connection		Best Junior Prose
Josh Donellan A Beginner's Guide to Dying in India		Best Fiction 2009
Nadine Neumann Wobbles		Best Creative Non-Fiction 2009
Lorraine McGuigan Wings of the Same Bird		Best Poetry 2009
Jessica Webster The Secret Stealer		Best First Book 2009
Jim Brigginshaw Over My Dead Body		Best Creative Fiction 2008
Ann Jones Put the Billy On		Best Creative Non-Fiction 2008
Lia Hills the possibility of flight		Best Poetry 2008
E A Gleeson in between the dancing		Best First Book 2008
Sylvia Petter Back Burning		Best Fiction 2007
Chris Dowding A Few Drops Short of a Pint		Best Creative Non-Fiction 2007
Mark O'Flynn What Can Be Proven		Best Poetry 2007
Jan Dean With One Brush		Best First Book 2007
Bill Collopy The House of Given		Best Fiction 2006
Dr Nigel Turvey Terania Creek: Rainforest Wars		Best Creative Non-fiction 2006
Paul Dawson Imagining Winter		Best Poetry 2006
Michelle Cahill The Accidental Cage		Best First Book 2006
Geoffrey Gates A Ticket for Perpetual Locomotion		Best Fiction 2005
Tilly Brasch No Middle Name		Best Creative Non-Fiction 2005
Joel Deane Subterranean Radio Songs		Best Poetry 2005
Cate Kennedy Joyflight		Best Poetry 2004 [co-winner]
Joel Deane Another		Best Fiction 2004
Nora Krouk Skin for Comfort		Best Poetry 2004 [co-winner]
Paul Mitchell minorphysics		Best Poetry 2003 [open]
Liam Guilar I’ll Howl Before You Bury Me		Best Poetry 2003 [Qld]
Sally Finn Fine Salt		Best Fiction 2002 [open]
Lesley Singh Cry Ma Ma to the Moon		Best Fiction 2002 [Qld]
Brett Dionysius Bacchanalia		Best Poetry 2002

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Updated on 4 November 2012

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