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Where did the inspiration for Shadow come from? Pat: We thought, if you were a young child who had moved towns and were lonely, wouldn’t it be good to have a secret creature to keep you company and protect you? Shadow is a friendly protective creature who loves Lilli and her mother and nanna. He […]
writingWA announced today that in 2010 it will match New Edition Bookshop’s $6,000 investment and raise the T.A.G. Hungerford Award prize money to a total of $12,000.
Non-fiction Publisher, Jane Fraser, will take up the position of CEO at Fremantle Press.
Ambelin Kwaymullina is one of just 25 Australian illustrators whose work will be exhibited by the Australian Publishers’ Association at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in March 2010.
Goldie Goldbloom will be in Perth for the Perth Writers’ Festival and a special author evening at Christ Church Grammar School on 2 March 2010.
For the second year in a row, a Fremantle Press author will be taking up a writing residency courtesy of the May Gibbs Creative Time Residential Fellowships program.
Five Fremantle Press picture books will feature in story time segments on national television in 2010.
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls interviews Ross Bolleter about his new poetry collection Piano Hill.
Fremantle Press returned to the Frankfurt International Book Fair in October for four days packed with networking and selling rights to international buyers.
A documentary based on The Last Whale by Chris Pash will feature never before seen footage from the 1970s.
Norman Jorgensen won a Western Australian Young Readers’ Book Award for his novel Jack’s Island.
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.
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls talks to former journalist and broadcaster Tom Baddeley about writing rhyming verse for children.
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.
The North American version of In Ecstasy by Kate McCaffrey was nominated for the 2010 American YALSA Quick Picks list for YA Reluctant Readers.
Fremantle Press caught up with poet, Frances Macaulay Forde, one of the contributors to indigo volume 3.