ALLi advocates for the equitable treatment of the independent author. Our campaigns operate globally and advise creative industry professionals, literacy and cultural organisations, government bodies and decision-makers in seven core territories: Australia, Canada and Commonwealth, EU, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States.

Our current campaigns:

Opening up to indie authors campaign

A campaign to encourage and aid the publishing and literary industries to include self-publishing authors in their programs, events, festivals, prizes, lisings and reviews.

The campaign includes guides for different types of organisations, as well as an author guide so they can present their books and themselves professionally within the publishing industry.

Self-publishing 3.0 campaign

A campaign to raise the average income for authors and poets through creative business practice.

The campaign also lobbies the literary and creative industries to provide more publishing and business skills education and advocates for a truly independent self-publishing sector.

Self-Publishing For All campaign

LAUNCHING 2022: A campaign to encourage diversity, accessibility and freedom of expression by bring self-publishing skills to marginalized and vulnerable communities.

Ethical Self-Publishing campaign

A code of standards for indie authors and self-publishing services, showing their support for the principle of putting readers first.

Authors display their adherence to this guiding principle through their publishing choices and by displaying ALLi’s “I am an ethical author” badge on their websites. Approved services agree to being vetted by the ALLi watchdog desk.