ABOUT MACMILLAN NEW WRITING

‘Macmillan New Writing has proved outstandingly successful’ – Writing Magazine

Macmillan New Writing (MNW) is the Pan Macmillan initiative dedicated to discovering new novelists in all genres. Virtually unique amongst major publishers in welcoming unsolicited submissions from debut novelists, MNW has published some of Pan Macmillan’s most exciting new names.

Our novels have been short-listed and long-listed for major prizes, including the Orange Prize, the Orange New Writer’s Award, the Crime Writer’s Association New Blood Dagger, The Romantic Novelists Award, the Last Laugh Award, the TIL Debut Novel Award, The Edgar Awards and the Irish Book Awards. Our books are reviewed and publicized throughout the national media, foreign rights in MNW titles have been sold in territories across the world, and several of our books have been optioned for TV and film.

We’re always looking for superb new novels, so if yours is finished and fits our other criteria, we’d be pleased to read it.

Click here, for some frequently asked questions and to submit your novel.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Macmillan New Writing Editorial

Please note: due to the very large number of submissions we receive we are currently unable to respond to unsuccessful submissions, or enter into any correspondence regarding our reasons for declining to publish a novel. We do, however, promise to assess every eligible submission we receive.

Our terms: Macmillan New Writing pays its authors a 20% royalty on net receipts but does not pay an advance (i.e. an advance payment against future sales). Our contract is standard and non-negotiable and we acquire world rights in all titles, with rights revenue split 50/50. We also reserve the option to publish the author’s second novel. If we acquire an author’s second novel it and any subsequent novels we acquire will be published, with an advance, under negotiable terms.