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A love of word games inspired the romance we know as Wordle. Josh Wardle, Wordle’s creator, accidently delivered a commercial success and The New York Times has dug deep to join the ranks of Scrabble and Bananagrams.

We are a boutique publishing house for kids' books and young-adult literature in South Africa, and we're calling for manuscript submissions. Send us your fantasy/sci-fi novels, comic books, kids' picture books, and non-fiction children's books! Submissions are open from 1 May - 30 September 2021.

At Imagnary House, we love to support the wonderful efforts of other publishers, authors and illustrators within the publishing industry, especially when those efforts are targeted at relieving the stress of explaining a worldwide pandemic to our children. In this vein, we are happy to guide our readers to the freely available digital version of Coronavirus: A Children's Book.  

We have been selected for the Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair) Invitation Programme for 2020 and 2021! We are humbled for our publisher to be taking part in the Frankfurter Buchmesse Invitation Programme for 2020 and 2021, which is a program dedicated to support publishers from developing nations highlighted around the world. In a time where the world is short on silver linings, we cling onto those that come by tightly.  

We’ve been shortlisted for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publishers of the Year! The award is of a very respected class in the industry because there are only six publishing houses per year that are awarded with the title (one from each designated geographic area). The Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year highlights publishers who are at the forefront of creativity and innovation. 

Join us as we meet author and literary agent Aoife Lennon-Ritchie, hear about her new book, and experience a lively discussion between her and popular novelist Diane Awerbuck on the fantasy genre within South Africa. There will, of course, be time at the end for Q&A and signings. 

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We are a boutique publishing house for kids' books and young-adult literature in South Africa, and we're calling for manuscript submissions. Send us your novels, picture books, and more!

As a South African publishing house, we delight in expressing our lekker local culture... although sometimes it can be difficult for others to understand just what we're saying.

Alison works alongside our publisher in selecting, developing and producing excellent children's books and young-adult literature, but she is also focused on a new wing of our company, Imagnary Studios. Pioneered by Alison, Imagnary Studios will be looking to take the stories that we have and build them out into other mediums...

At Imagnary House, we are inspired and motivated by the incredible writers of history to continue doing what we do. In this blog, you can read about our publisher's top 10 quotes from writers and poets around the world that motivate him to continue publishing great children's books and young-adult literature. 

As personal assistant, you’ll provide administrative support to our Publisher. Because of this, you’ll be responsible for a large range of tasks, from human resources, to author liaisons, diary-management, event management, communications, and still other smaller tasks.