Category: Awards

Greg Taylor has won the 35th Hungerford Award for Wildlife in the Open Eucalyptus Forests. Written from the viewpoint of 24 species – none of which are human – this collection of narrative non-fiction essays is an invitation to see the world from a different perspective. After growing up in Miami and living in San […]

Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton with Cindy Lane has garnered a Whitley Commendation Award for Children’s Conservation Awareness. This is the second year in a row that Cindy Lane has received this honour for her illustrations. Cindy Lane said she was grateful to have been part of the team bringing Tim Winton’s words […]

Bernice Barry has won the richest individual prize in Australia for her novel The Names of a Hare. Awarded by the Historical Novel Society of Australasia, in partnership with the ARA Group, to novels where the majority of the story is set more than 50 years ago, the Historical Novel Prize recognises Australian and New […]

Remember, remember the Fifth of November.   Gunpowder, treason and plot.   What happens when a failed attempt to blow up parliament leaves you dead but long remembered, lingering as a spirit, waiting to finally be forgotten so you can move on to the next realm?   We invite you to find out by joining us […]

The Wilderness Society has awarded Tim Winton and Cindy Lane their highest honour – the Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Tim Winton won the inaugural Award back in 1994 and, thirty-two years later, has come full circle winning it a second time for the picture book Ningaloo. Tim pointed out that he had been writing […]

Four Western Australian writers are shortlisted for the Hungerford Award. This year, 128 manuscripts were received, the largest number in the Award’s 35-year history. Speaking on behalf of Fremantle Press, Publisher Georgia Richter said this just proved how vital it was to have an award exclusively for Western Australian writers. Georgia said, ‘It is a […]

Bernice Barry is still in the running for the richest individual prize in the region for her novel The Names of a Hare. Awarded by the Historical Novel Society of Australasia, in partnership with the ARA Group, to novels where the majority of the story is set more than 50 years ago. The Historical Novel […]

What began with the surreal image of a dead whale swimming between Perth skyscrapers grew into Rebecca Higgie’s sweeping exploration of love, memory, climate crisis and the stories we tell about the dead. We spoke to Rebecca about the six-year journey behind The Book of the After, the real-world urgency shaping its imagined futures, and […]

Join us for a special evening designed just for readers and writers. We are excited to help round off Totally Lit – Adventures in the Port City with a night of readings, an in-conversation and, of course, the declaration of our brand-new Hungerford winner! Host Deb Fitzpatrick will be joined by NYT bestselling author Natasha […]

The Names of a Hare by Bernice Barry has received the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize ($1,500) and is a finalist for the 2026 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award ($40,000), and the Nib People’s Choice Prize ($4,000). Presented by the Waverley Council in Sydney, this 25-year-old national literary prize has become an established and respected […]

Trapped! by Julia Lawrinson has won the NSW History Award in the Young People’s History Prize category. The winners were announced at a ceremony on Monday 7 September at the State Library of NSW. This quintessentially Western Australian story tells the tale of the near miraculous rescue of Modesto ‘Charlie’ Varischetti, trapped in a flooded […]

We’re proud to announce that Fremantle Press is a finalist in the Creative, Lifestyle and Design award category for a Western Australian Export Award, and has a one in three chance of winning. Run in partnership with Austrade, the Export Awards celebrate local exporters that create jobs, drive economic growth and help showcase the State […]

The Ghost Walk by Karen Herbert is on the shortlist for Best Crime Fiction in the 2026 Ned Kelly Awards. The Ghost Walk’s protagonist is amateur sleuth Ruby Rose Gillespie, who lives with cystic fibrosis. Undeterred by her chronic illness, she sets out to solve the murder of her secret lover, and starts to wonder […]

Bernice Barry is on a roll with another longlisting for her novel The Names of Hare – this time she’s in line for the richest individual prize in the region. Awarded by the Historical Novel Society of Australasia, in partnership with the ARA Group, to novels where the majority of the story is set more […]

Trapped! by Julia Lawrinson and Catalpa: Escape to Freedom by Mike and Joy Lefroy have each been shortlisted for an NSW History Award. Administered by the State Library of NSW in association with Create NSW, the awards recognise the contribution of historical research to our culture and communities, and to society at large. Julia Lawrinson […]

Palyku creator Professor Helen Milroy has won the ASLA DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award with her chapter book Sunny & Shadow.   The DANZ Children’s Book Award recognises children’s books that challenge stereotypes and celebrate diverse and marginalised people and communities. It is designed to support educators and families when looking for books that provide accurate, fair and authentic representations of disability, culture, class, LGBTQIA+, race and religion in a way that […]

Eight books representing nine writers have been shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. They are in the running to win a $15,000 prize from a total pool of $120,000. Administered by the State Library of Western Australia, the Premier’s Book Awards support and promote authors, illustrators and publishers, while encouraging readers to engage […]

The Shameful Isles by David Price is in the running for the Margaret Medcalf Award. This is the second time the author has been shortlisted for the prize, which recognises excellence in research – particularly as it pertains to the use of materials housed in the State Records Office of Western Australia.  The Shameful Isles reveals […]

Tim Winton won the first Environment Award for Children’s Literature back in 1994. Now, he and illustrator Cindy Lane are in the running for another award for Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder. CEO and publisher of the book, Alex Allan, said she was heartened by the recognition. Alex said, ‘This book acknowledges the profound part young […]

Fremantle Press is happy to announce that Julia Lawrinson’s real-life tale of the Bonnie Vale mine rescue is in the running for the 2026 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction. The judges said the book brought Australia’s history vividly to life, thanks to Lawrinson’s insightful language. They said, ‘Real characters come to life on […]

Palyku creator Professor Helen Milroy has two books on the ASLA DANZ (Diversity in Austrlia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award shortlist: her picture book The Boab Tree and her chapter book Sunny & Shadow.   Children’s publisher Cate Sutherland said the books provided a First Nations perspective on the special connection to the place we call home and what happens when that gets severed. She said, ‘Both of Helen’s books are […]

Shortlisted for the 2024 Hungerford Award, I Remember Everything is Fiona Wilkes’s debut novel. Crossing timelines, from Bristol in the 1980s to 2020 London, I Remember Everything takes a poignant look at first love, chosen family and coming out, just as the devastation of the AIDS epidemic looms. In this interview, Fiona reflects on the […]

Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton with Cindy Lane has been shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award and an Australian Booksellers Association Award in as many days. The ABA Book of the Year Awards are for titles which have captured the hearts of Australian booksellers – those titles they most like recommending. The ABIAs are presented by […]

Fremantle Press is celebrating 50 years of independent publishing with a brand-new home and a place on the Australian Book Industry Awards shortlist. The ABIA Small Publisher of the Year Award recognises publishers whose program demonstrates excellence, thereby contributing to the overall success of the industry. Fremantle Press CEO Alex Allan said the shortlisting was […]