The New Zealand Association of Manuscript Assessors

The New Zealand Association of Manuscript Assessors (NZAMA) is a group of professional editors and writers who offer authors objective advice and guidance on how to bring their work closer to publishable standard. We have all worked in manuscript assessing, editing, and/or the teaching of writing. NZAMA has a code of professional practice and strict entry criteria.


Writers need to contact members individually for fees and other details, such as how to present manuscripts (e.g. do not email manuscripts as attachments unless the assessor has agreed). Please make enquiries by email or write with a stamped self-addressed envelope.

January 2010

Fleur Beale 22/36 Dee St, Island Bay, Wellington 6023. Phone: 04-977-8737. Email: fleurbeale@clear.net.nz Fiction for children and young adults (not poetry). Also offers one-on-one workshops at her home.

Norman Bilbrough (Foundation Member)
2/44 Mairangi Rd Wilton Wellington. Phone: 04-472-6824
Email: norman@msassess.com www.msassess.com/
Fiction, work for children and young adults, non-fiction

Christine Dale (dahlDESIGN) 282 Fordyce Road, RD1, Parakai 0874. Phone: 09-420-9931 Email: cdale@dahldesign.co.nz or foliage@vodafone.co.nz
Fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults.

Barbara Else (TFS) (Foundation Member)
PO Box 46-031 Park Avenue Lower Hutt 5044.
Phone: 04-565-4429. Email: barbara@elseware.co.nz www.elseware.co.nz
Fiction, work for children and young adults, non-fiction

Chris Else (TFS) (Foundation Member)
PO Box 46-031 Park Avenue Lower Hutt 5044.
Phone: 04-565-4429. Email: chris@elseware.co.nz www.elseware.co.nz
Fiction, non-fiction

Calum Gilmour (Polygraphia Ltd) P O Box 167 Westpark Village West Harbour Auckland 0661. Phone: 64-9-416-1437. Email: cgilmour@polygraphianz.com www.polygrahianz.com Non-fiction, academic work, fiction

Graeme Lay (Write Right) (Foundation Member)
50 Lake Road Devonport North Shore 0632. Email: graemelay@xtra.co.nz Fiction, young adult fiction, non-fiction esp. travel

Jill Marshall (Write Good Stuff) PO Box 46-116, Auckland 1011. Phone: : 0064 9 378 00830064. All children's fiction including picture books, early chapter books, novels and YA, and all adult fiction including commercial and genre fiction (workshops and one-on-one coaching also available for all the above). Website www.writegoodstuff.co.nz; email jill@writegoodstuff.co.nz;

Lesley Marshall (Editline) (Foundation Member)
20 Beverley Cres RD 9 Whangarei. Ph: 09-434-6814 Email: editline@xtra.co.nz Fiction incl. romance, non-fiction incl. theses, family history

Janice Marriott Email janice.m@paradise.net.nz www.janicemarriott.com
Life writing, novels (adult, YA and children's) and especially picture book scripts.

Barbara Murison (Barbara Murison Assessment Services) (Foundation Member)
PO Box 22-180 Khandallah Wellington 6441. Phone & fax 04-479-5538. Email: barbaram@clear.net.nz Children’s books, young adult, & picture books

Dan Myers Word.Link, Ltd. PO Box 1923, Whangarei 0140
Phone: 022 234 1993 or 09 435-6328
Email: WordlinkNZ@gmail.com www.WordlinkUSA.com . Fiction, non-fiction.

Emma Neale Email: ejneale@ihug.co.nz
Fiction incl. young adult, poetry. Limited availability.

Tina Shaw Email: tinashaw@clear.net.nz Contemporary fiction, non-fiction, YA and children’s fiction.

Stephen Stratford (Write Right) (Foundation Member)
16 Cooper Crescent, Cambridge 3434. Ph 07-827-4466 Email: stephen.stratford@xtra.co.nz Fiction and non-fiction, both adult and teenage.

Foundation Members include Jane Parkin and Anna Rogers

Website: www.elseware.co.nz/NZAMA
Barbara Else, coordinator