[1] It is a publisher of poetry, fiction and non-fiction by Australian and overseas writers, and works in translation from Chinese, German, Spanish, French and Hindi.
The company's initial publishing output was in the literary journal HEAT, which gave space to emerging and established authors both from Australia and overseas, often in translation.
In 2005, it moved again to join the Writing and Society Research Group at Western Sydney University's Bankstown campus.
The imprint has published titles by authors including Alexis Wright, Brian Castro, Judith Beveridge, Jennifer Maiden, Alan Wearne and Gerald Murnane.
In recent years it has presided over the development of a literature based in Western Sydney, through the publication of books by Fiona Wright, Felicity Castagna, Luke Carman and Michael Mohammed Ahmad.