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In this podcast you get to hear the voice of Screech, Jodie Tes’ titular character. What might surprise you is that Screech is a sulphur-crested cockatoo. Jodie says, ‘I was on a morning walk, listening to Radio National, when an interview with a hilarious and passionate wildlife ecologist sparked the idea for Screech. She was […]
Join us as we announce the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award winner and celebrate new releases at the Great Big Book Club.
Four Western Australian writers are shortlisted and in the running for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Judged anonymously, the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award is a biennial prize awarded for an unpublished manuscript by a Western Australian author for a work of fiction, narrative non-fiction or young adult fiction. The winner receives a cash […]
Barking Gecko Theatre and Fremantle Press are proud to announce the release of a new picture book to coincide with the return of HOUSE.
Award-winning author Alan Carter is lifting the lid on the Tasmanian salmon industry in his new novel Prize Catch. In October, Alan will be discussing his latest action thriller set in Tasmania.
David Whish-Wilson, Alan Carter and Dave Warner premiered their latest crime novels as part of an online panel hosted by Cheryl Akle from Better Reading on Thursday 12 September. When It Rains begins with a hand tied to a post in the crocodile-infested waters of Broome, Western Australia. Dave Warner said, ‘With my crime novels … […]
Sienna Rose Scully is the youngest of four children. She is an Integrated Marketing Communications graduate who grew up in Noongar Whadjuk Boodja (Fremantle), Western Australia. Sienna has dealt with OCD since childhood and is passionate about bringing awareness to what this disorder entails and to help other OCD sufferers. She is a contributor to […]
When launching A Wreck of Seabirds by Karleah Olson and Jasper Cliff by Josh Kemp, Annie Fogarty AM took the opportunity to announce a substantial uplift in funding for the State’s premier young writer’s award. Inaugurated in 2019, the Fogarty Literary Award for young Western Australian writers quickly established itself as a major supporter of […]
Josh Kemp, author of Australian gothic fiction, will be touring his latest novel, Jasper Cliff, at a WA library near you. Josh says he is attracted to writing Gothic fiction as a mode of storytelling that explores the legacy and trauma of colonisation. ‘Australian Gothic is an incredibly diverse mode of fiction that emerged during the […]
Launched this month, Karleah Olson’s A Wreck of Seabirds was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award. It was described by the judges as a tightly written, atmospheric novel that captured the depths of human emotion. In this interview she tells us more about her journey to publication. Why did you choose a coastal setting for […]
A Leaf Called Greaf, illustrated and designed by Kelly Canby was named runner up in the Best Published Book Cover Design Award in the Whitsundays Literary Heart Awards this weekend. The Whitsundays Festival launched the Literary Heart Awards earlier this year, offering cash prizes to recognise and honour outstanding contributions to the literary and design landscape. In […]
Josh Kemp’s debut novel Banjawarn won the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award and the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction. In his new thriller, Jasper Cliff, which was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award, he deliberately leaned in to the spookier side of Australian gothic, imbuing his narrative with disturbing insights into the […]
Bianca Breen has joined Fremantle Press as a Digital Publicist, undertaking a contract for maternity leave cover for the next six months. The new role will focus on marketing across all digital channels; coordinating social media marketing, the website and edirectmail campaigns as well as helping implement online promotions with partner organisations and distributors. Head […]
BOOKS
Fremantle Press are proud to launch the new novel Cutler by David Whish-Wilson.
Nedingar: Ancestors by Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm has been recognised for a third time in this year’s awards season. The dual language picture book has already been shortlisted for an Environment Award by the Wilderness Society and has been made a CBCA Notable Book. Now it is in the running for Speech Pathology Australia’s […]
The life of beloved children’s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller to turn a life of intense headlines into a wild, marvellous tale. In the penultimate episode, memoirist Julia Lawrinson discusses the notion of rootlessness by taking a look at her peripatetic childhood […]
A Leaf Called Greaf, illustrated and designed by Kelly Canby, and I Am the Mau, designed by Rebecca Mills, have been shortlisted for the Best Published Book Cover Design Award in the Whitsundays Literary Heart Awards. Overall, just four submissions were selected for the shortlist and are in the running for the first prize of $1,500 and $500 […]
Nedingar: Ancestors by Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm has been recognised for a third time in this year’s awards season. The dual language picture book has already been shortlisted for an Environment Award by the Wilderness Society and has been made a CBCA Notable Book. Now it is in the running for Speech Pathology Australia’s Book […]
Nandi Chinna will appear at Rebeun’s Room in Fremantle on 2 October for a poetry reading accompanied by musical compositions. Nandi will be reading from her new poetry collaboration, Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant.
City of Fremantle Hungerford Award winner Molly Schmidt is in the running for The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize for her coming-of age-novel Salt River Road. Now in its tenth year, and the only award run by an independent Melbourne bookshop, the Readings Prize supports new and outstanding Australian voices with the winners receiving a $5,000 […]
Australia’s most coveted prize for children’s literature has gone to Fremantle Press author Kelly Canby for her 2023 picture book Timeless. The CBCA Picture Book of the Year rewards outstanding books of the genre in which the creators achieve both artistic and literary unity. Children’s publisher at Fremantle Press, Cate Sutherland, said every one of Kelly’s […]
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