Category: Awards

Alan Carter is one of six authors shortlisted for the prestigious Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel with his latest book Marlborough Man.

Alan Carter and Dave Warner have both made this year’s Ned Kelly Award longlist for their latest thrillers: Marlborough Man and Clear to the Horizon.

City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award winner Madelaine Dickie is on the shortlist of the 2018 Dobbie Literary Award for her novel Troppo. The $5,000 award, which is part of the Nita B Kibble Literary Awards, recognises a first published work by an Australian woman writer.

Alan Carter’s Marlborough Man is one of ten longlisted contenders for New Zealand’s Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel. Carter, who has been sharing his time between New Zealand and Fremantle for the last seven years, has been embraced by our literary cousins across the ditch, garnering critical acclaim and now this nod from the […]

City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award winner Madelaine Dickie is in the running for the 2018 Dobbie Literary Award for her novel Troppo. Worth $5,000, the award, which is a part of the Nita B Kibble Literary Awards, recognises a first published work by an Australian woman writer.

Goldie Goldbloom’s tale of artist Gwendolen Mary John, titled Gwen, has been longlisted for the prestigious ALS Gold Medal. The medal is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year.

Looking Up by Sally Murphy and Drawn Onward by Meg McKinlay and Andrew Frazer have been honoured as notable books in the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year Awards 2018.

Dungzilla by James Foley and Gwen by Goldie Goldbloom have been announced as finalists in the 2017 Aurealis Awards for science fiction.

Fremantle Press author Robert Edeson won the T.A.G Hungerford Award (now the City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award) back in 2012 for his novel The Weaver Fish. Now with a second book, Bad to Worse, under his belt, he passes on his experience of entering the prize and explains why you should enter this year.

Dungzilla by James Foley has been announced as a finalist in the 2017 Aurealis Awards for science fiction. This is the second book in the S. Tinker Inc series to make it to the finals and the fourth time Foley has been on the list.

Fremantle Press meets Richard Rossiter, one of the judges of the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award.

Fremantle Press meets Dr Catherine Noske, one of the judges of the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award.

Riddle Gully Secrets by Jen Banyard is in the running for a West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award. Banyard said this was the second time the Riddle Gully series had been honoured, with Mystery at Riddle Gully making the shortlist in 2016.

Submissions for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award are open. Western Australia’s longest running and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript offers a cash prize of $12,000 from the City of Fremantle and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.

With submissions to the City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award opening on Friday 2 February and closing on Friday 16 March, this workshop is perfectly timed to help you get your manuscript into shape with the help of author and editor Deb Fitzpatrick.

We are pleased to announce that Westerly editor Dr Catherine Noske will join Delys Bird, Richard Rossiter and Georgia Richter on the judging panel of the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award.

From today, manuscript submissions to Fremantle Press will be received electronically via Submittable. Marketing and communications manager Claire Miller said as well as working with agents and existing authors, Fremantle Press received hundreds of unsolicited manuscripts every year – formerly all as hard copies.

Sister Heart by Sally Morgan has been shortlisted for a 2018 Adelaide Festival Award for Literature in the children’s category.

An audio adaptation of Alan Carter’s crime novel Prime Cut has been shortlisted for a BBC Audio Drama Award while lead actor Andrew Leung has been nominated for Best Debut Performance.

Fremantle Press author Sarah Drummond’s debut novel, The Sound, is in the running to win the International Dublin Literary Award, worth 100,000 euros. She joins nine Australian authors and 137 international authors on the prize’s longlist.

Norman Jorgensen’s The Smuggler’s Curse has won the 2017 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award (WAYRBA).

Western Australian novelist Kate McCaffrey has collected the Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature for a third time. Her YA novel Saving Jazz won the $1500 Older Readers Award and a place on the list of titles recommended for use by family therapists.

Fremantle Press has been recognised on the Ned Kelly Awards shortlist for the third year in a row. Burn Patterns by Como author Ron Elliott is in the running for a 2017 Best First Fiction prize in Australia’s most prestigious crime writing award.

Fremantle Press congratulates poet Caitlin Maling on receiving a 2017 Marten Bequest scholarship. Caitlin has been awarded $50,000 to further her eco-critical practice through residencies and research in Australia and in Italy.