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Norman Jorgensen won a Western Australian Young Readers’ Book Award for his novel Jack’s Island.
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls talks to former journalist and broadcaster Tom Baddeley about writing rhyming verse for children.
One thousand copies of the Waarda series for young readers will be distributed to remote Indigenous communities thanks to the support of the Fogarty Foundation and the Indigenous Literacy Project.
Bawoo Stories author May O’Brien has won the 2009 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Education.
Lighthouse Girl by author Dianne Wolfer and illustrator Brian Simmonds has been short listed for a New South Wales Premier’s History Award worth $15,000. It was one of four books to make the short list for the Young People’s History Prize.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell, James Quinton and Emma Rooksby will feature in Shorelines 2, a collection of works by emerging poets to be published by Fremantle Press in 2010.
Miles Franklin Award winner Kim Scott will commence a book tour of Germany in October 2009.
The publisher of Boans for Service by David Hough has exhausted its stocks again. A third reprint is currently under consideration. The first print run sold out in 17 days and the second in less than four weeks. A limited number of bookstores in Perth still have copies for those who are quick! Fremantle Press […]
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls talks to Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy about editing Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb.
How long did you know Peter? What was he like to work with as a colleague? I knew Peter from 1968, when I returned to Perth from Oxford, until his death in 2002. I enjoyed many things about Peter, especially his wide reading and his quiet, ironic sense of humour.
Six talented poets made the shortlist for Shorelines 2, a collection of works by emerging poets to be published by Fremantle Press in 2010.
The Last Whale by Chris Pash was one of four books to make the shortlist for the 2009 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize.
Fremantle Press caught up with poet, Frances Macaulay Forde, one of the contributors to indigo volume 3.
Ex-Fremantle Press and Fremantle Arts Centre employees are continuing to make their mark. Earlier this year the Australian Publishers Association (APA) George Robertson Awards honoured Ian Templeman for more than 30 years outstanding service to the industry. Templeman was responsible for the establishment of Fremantle Arts Centre Press back in 1976.
The Elements Art Gallery officially launched their new space in Dalkeith with an exhibition by Lighthouse Girl illustrator Brian Simmonds on 11 July 2009.
How did you become interested in becoming an illustrator? I was always interested. For as long as I can remember I’ve been into drawing. My mum enrolled me in art classes when I was five or six, and that was it, really. I did oil painting and went sketching outdoors, that kind of thing. When […]
Fremantle Press author Alice Nelson will be presented with an award for best young Australian novelist at the Sydney Writers Festival this week.
Cyberbullying is as much of a problem in Hungary as it is in Australia according to Fremantle Press Rights Manager, Clive Newman.
Fertile Soil: 50 Years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection was shortlisted for the 2009 Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards.
Director and Theatre Studies Lecturer at Notre Dame University Gabrielle Metcalf will launch The Bookshop on Jacaranda Street by Marlish Glorie at Dymocks Fremantle on Friday 8 May.
Simon Haynes won a WA Science Fiction Foundation award for the second year in a row at Swancon 2009. Haynes was awarded Best Professional Long Work in the Tin Duck Awards for Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch.
Fremantle Press poet Tracy Ryan won the ABR Poetry Prize worth $4000 for her poem ‘Lost Property’ this month.