Manuscripts Online uses independent assessors to provide critical feedback on writers' work and to offer crucial advice about the work's relationship to the market.

The main purpose of Manuscripts Online is to empower writers to improve their work and develop it towards successful publication.

To achieve this, Manuscripts Online offers a new, flexible and efficient approach to manuscript assessment, including

responding in detail to the author's queries and comments about their assessment report;

accepting manuscripts as Microsoft Word documents;

and encouraging authors to apply for assessment online at this website.

We encourage writers to submit their manuscript as an email attachment or on a disk (as a Word file, which we convert to a formatted PDF file). This is because assessors can assess a manuscript in electronic form far more effetively than in hard copy, and it saves authors the cost, time and labour of producing and posting a hard copy.

If you would like to know more about Manuscripts Online's unique service and how it differs from other services, click here.

If you are new to the concept of manuscript assessment, click here.

To see some excerpts of manuscripts assessed at Manuscripts Online, click here.