Category: The City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

Join the award-winning author of Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና), Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, for an enlightening workshop designed to encourage you to think carefully, critically and creatively about decolonial writing. The workshop will explore the false beliefs that infuse stories from the colony, tropes to avoid and insights for writers to consider while writing on […]

What role can storytelling play in protecting human rights? Join Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes for the launch of his debut memoir, Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና). Winner of the 2024 Hungerford Award, Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና) is a profound and groundbreaking memoir that weaves together stories of heritage and heartache. The launch takes place on […]

The Hungerford Award is celebrating 35 years of unearthing Western Australian stories and championing new literary voices. Sponsors Fremantle Press, City of Fremantle and Centre for Stories are looking for the next great storyteller seeking a big break – with $15,000 cash, a publishing contract, and a writing fellowship up for grabs. The biennial Hungerford […]

Winner of the 2024 Hungerford Award, Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና)is a groundbreaking bilingual memoir that challenges how we think about belonging and language. Author Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes weaves together poetry and prose, Amharic and English, to create a deeply moving account of Ethiopian heritage and displacement. In this interview, Yirga discusses the craft behind […]

The Stan television series based on Holden Sheppard’s book Invisible Boys has been nominated for two Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts (AACTA) Awards – for Best Miniseries and Best Editing in Television for episode 9. Filmed in Perth and Geraldton, Invisible Boys is an emotional tale of individuality and belonging. Written for the screen by a […]

Chemutai Glasheen, Marcella Polain and Richard Rossiter are the 2026 Hungerford Award judges. Alongside Fremantle Press publishers Georgia Richter and Cate Sutherland, they will be responsible for choosing who will win the $15,000 prize money from the City of Fremantle, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press, and a Centre for Stories Fellowship. The biennial Hungerford Award is […]

Congratulations to WA author Holden Sheppard who has received the $50,000 Minderoo Artist Fund Award. The Minderoo Artist Fund Award is presented to the artist who best leveraged their time in the Minderoo Foundation Artist Fund program to innovate, collaborate and broaden their practice, while making meaningful contributions to the sector. Nicola Forrest AO presented […]

Adapted from the award-winning novel by Holden Sheppard, the powerful 10-part Stan Original Series Invisible Boys will premiere on 13 February, only on Stan. To celebrate the series, a new edition of Holden Sheppard’s bestselling novel hits bookstores today. Described by reviewers as a ‘groundbreaking new Aussie drama’ and a ‘powerful, soulful and absolutely bang-on […]

Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes has won the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for የተስፋ ፈተና / Trials of Hope. Written in English and Amharic poetry and prose, this fascinating autobiographic work shares Yirga’s journey from boy shepherd in Ethiopia to human rights academic at Curtin University. Yirga is a writer, researcher and poet from Lalibela, […]

Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes is one of four writers shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award and in the running to win a $15,000 cash prize from the City of Fremantle, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a writing fellowship at the Centre for Stories. We asked Yirga to tell us more about […]

Year 6 student Julian Henningsgaard won the Phillip Pendal Young Heritage Award for his essay Words From the Past, which shares the serendipitous connection between T.A.G. Hungerford and the MillPoint Caffé Bookshop. We are delighted to publish the essay for you to enjoy, too.

Jodie Tes is one of four writers shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award and in the running to win a $15,000 cash prize from the City of Fremantle, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a writing fellowship at the Centre for Stories. This is the second time the Hilton-based author has […]

Fiona Wilkes is one of four writers shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award and in the running to win a $15,000 cash prize from the City of Fremantle, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a writing fellowship at the Centre for Stories. Her desire to balance out the narrative around queer […]

Howard McKenzie-Murray is one of four writers shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award and in the running to win a $15,000 cash prize from the City of Fremantle, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a writing fellowship at the Centre for Stories. We asked Howard to tell us more about his […]

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 […]

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 […]

When Robert Edeson needs facts, he often makes them up. Edeson says, ‘In my view, that’s the sublime (and subversive) prerogative of a fiction writer. It is also strangely liberating after an obediently truthful life in science.’

Ten Western Australian writers are longlisted and in the running for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Judged anonymously, the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award is a biennial prize awarded to 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 prize […]

Anatomy of a Secret by Gerard McCann was shortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Publisher Georgia Richter says, ‘Gerard McCann’s memoir documents the experiences of a Catholic boy who was just one of scores of young boys sexually assaulted by convicted paedophile Leo Leunig in Perth in the 1960s. Despite the confronting […]

Wayne Bergmann has spent decades fighting for the rights of Traditional Owners – a job that often puts him in the firing line. So what was it like to reflect back on the entirety of his life – from his childhood to today? To write his story, Wayne called on award-winning novelist and longtime colleague […]

Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt is one of ten Australian debut novels in the running for a 2024 Indie Book Award. Presented by Leading Edge Books, the Indie Book Awards celebrate the depth and range of literary talent in this nation. They recognise the best Australian writing as chosen by Australian independent booksellers. In […]

Screen Australia and Stan have announced Invisible Boys is one of three new Stan Original series commissioned for production. Based on the book by multi-award-winning Fremantle Press author Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys will be a ten-episode contemporary drama series set in the regional town of Geraldton, Western Australia. Spoiler alert!  ‘In a small town everyone […]

On a morning exploding with pigeons, I fall into a phone conversation with my old friend Kiera as I walk to work. ‘Can we talk about historical fiction?’ I ask. ‘I don’t write historical fiction,’ she says. ‘I write speculative biography.’ Isn’t that the way of writerly research, I think with a sigh: you push […]