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City Beach resident Martin Chambers said he is ecstatic to receive a book contract from Fremantle Press after coming runner-up for the T.A.G. Hungerford award.

Ambelin Kwaymullina travelled to the Australian Writers’ Week in China where she was on hand for the launch of the simplified Chinese editions of her picture books; Crow and the Waterhole , The Two-Hearted Numbat , How Frogmouth Found Her Home and Caterpillar and Butterfly .

Fremantle Press author Jacqueline Wright is celebrating today after her novel Red Dirt Talking was longlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Fremantle Press is sorry to announce that Emma Ciccotosto passed away last week. Sales, Distribution and Foreign Rights Manager Clive Newman remembers her fondly.

Ten Tiny Things illustrator Kyle Hughes-Odgers gives us the lowdown on his commission to paint an artwork for Jamie Oliver’s new Perth restaurant.

Foreign Rights Manager Clive Newman spent the lead-up to Chinese New Year at Taiwan’s Taipei International Book Exhibition.

Subiaco resident Robert Edeson is the winner of the 2012 T.A.G. Hungerford Award for his unpublished manuscript, The Weaver Fish.

Foreign Rights Manager Clive Newman is about to jet off to Taiwan’s Taipei International Book Exhibition to meet with Asian publishers, distributors and agents. We caught him on the hop for a foreign rights round-up.

Jake book series illustrator Chris Nixon placed second in the Breakthrough Illustrators Contest run by Richard Solomon Artists Representative, one of the biggest illustration agencies in the world.

Children will enjoy creating their very own How Frogmouth Found Her Home drawings, delighting in the bush creatures and colourful parade of Australian fauna.

Naama Amram says; ‘I’m an editor. Mainly, I work with authors to develop content, and I guide finished manuscripts through the production process.’

Georgia Richter is the Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-fiction Publisher who prefers to edit many of her own books.

Claire Miller is the Marketing and Communications Manager at Fremantle Press. She is a builder’s daughter and helps construct IKEA book cases as required.

Books by Fremantle Press poet Tracy Ryan, author Michelle Gillespie and illustrator Sonia Martinez were amongst the eight winners announced at the 2011 Western Australian Premier’s Awards on Monday 17 September.

In The House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley Susan Swingler, author and step-daughter of Elizabeth Jolley, reveals the ‘everything’ that her step-mother once stated, ‘should not be told’. In this interview Susan tells us a little about her book and what audiences can expect from her Australian appearances.

It has been a glittering awards season for Fremantle Press. Norman Jorgensen and James Foley, the creative team behind The Last Viking, have made it to the shortlist of five awards – the most recent being a Children’s Book Council of Australia Award and an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction (alongside The Waterboys by Peter […]

Fremantle Press and Australian literature lost a champion and great friend with the passing of Professor Bruce Bennett on 14 April. Bruce was a founding member of the Fremantle Press board and passionate supporter of our program from its inception.

Composers Anne Boyd and Elena Kats-Chernin are amongst those who will help launch Women of Note: The Rise of Australian Women Composers on International Women’s Day 2012.

Fremantle Press sends its condolences to the family and friends of Alice Smith. Alice was the co-author of Under a Bilari Tree I Born; a moving autobiographical story of her life as an Aboriginal woman living on stations in and around the West Pilbara.

Maylands resident Norman Jorgensen has been shortlisted for a Western Australian Young Readers’ Book Award (WAYRBA) for his second book in a row.

Q&A with Deb Fitzpatrick GR Magazine

Prime Cut by crime writer Alan Carter has won theBest First Fiction category of the 2011 Ned Kelly Awards.

Prime Cut by crime writer Alan Carter has been shortlisted for Best First Fiction in the 2011 Ned Kelly Awards.

Get to know a little more about Tracy Ryan.