Submitting a proposal

If you have a publishing idea and would like to know how to present it to the Oxford Primary Division, please read the guidelines below on how to submit a proposal.

Oxford University Press has a strong local publishing program, publishing dictionaries, textbooks, and resource books for schools. The Primary division has a focus on publishing printed and digital product for core maths and English skills. We do not publish one-off children's books for the general market.

Guidelines for submitting a publishing proposal

• Contact details – your name, work and home address, email address, and telephone and facsimile numbers.
• Curriculum vitae – your academic qualifications, current position, relevant past positions, and previous publications or an updated version if you have already published with OUPANZ.
• Rationale – a brief statement of the aims and approach of your proposal.
• Market – identify the course and year level for the material.
• Provide details of any syllabus change relevant to your proposal.
• Competition information – identify the current resources and indicate how your approach and content compares with them.
• Table of contents.
• Sample chapter – modelling the chapter structure for the book.
• Ancillary material – outline your ideas and expectations for any additional materials that will help promote and sell the material, such as web support, teacher resources, study guides, and digital content.