Category: For writers
Books in the Brewery’s ever-popular Crime with Wine series returns on Thursday 19 November with a stellar line-up of crime authors. Nadine Browne (Gone Guru) joins Petronella McGovern and Louise Wolhuter to discuss their new books and all things crime: favourite detectives, inspiration for their novels, writing insights, and the best way to murder somebody […]
Spend a Sunday morning this Pride Month delving into queer historical writing with Fiona Wilkes. LGBTQIA+ history does not run parallel to straight history. At every point, queer lives and stories intersect and intertwine with the mainstream. So why is the queer community so often absent from the history books? Fiona Wilkes is a queer […]
Join Barry Nicholls (Second Innings) for an introductory session on writing memoir. Getting started is the hardest part, and this workshop will help you identify your through line (the element that binds the story together), have a go at writing family history and learn how to incorporate your through line into your story. Ahead of […]
Join author Madelaine Dickie (Troppo, Some People Want to Shoot Me) for an author talk with Pen and Possibility in Denmark. She will be talking about: Madelaine Dickie loves to write, loves to surf and loves fishing with her hundred-pound handline. Over the last 14 years, she’s wandered and worked in Jakarta, Broome, Wyndham, Tokyo, […]
The long-running, annual Australian Short Story Festival takes place 27–29 November at various locations across Fremantle. A number ofl Fremantle Press authors join the line-up this year, including David Allan-Petale, Sharron Booth, Michael Burrows, Zoe Deleuil, Jon Doust, Brooke Dunnell, Donna Mazza, Susan Midalia, Joanna Morrison, Karleah Olson, Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, Deborah Pike, Holden Sheppard and […]
Join Brigid Lowry for a gentle writing workshop on Saturday 24 October at 2.30 pm at Fremantle Press (1/10 Parry St, Fremantle). This workshop offers a chance to explore your creative path, in good company, using the themes of loving kindness, joy and acceptance, which Brigid has written about in her two recent books: A […]
The immensely popular Festival of Fiction returns for 2026 and we’re thrilled to have several Fremantle Press authors attending. Running over two days, Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November 2026, the festival will feature two theatres: one for Readers and one for Writers. Tickets have unfortunately sold out, but you can join the waitlist here: […]
Join author Molly Schmidt (Salt River Road) for a cosy chat at the Pen and Possibility: Creative Writing Studio in Albany, WA. Molly will be talking about: Pen and Possibility: Creative Writing Studio is a boutique creative writing studio located between the Great Southern forests and the Southern Ocean in Kwoorabup/Denmark, WA. It is a […]
Geraldton’s annual readers and writers festival returns on 23–25 October. Fremantle Press authors Bernice Barry (The Names of a Hare) and Philippa Nikulinsky and Angela Nikulinsky (Philippa Nikulinsky: For the Seeker Who Walks) will be appearing, as well as Holden Sheppard and Caitlin Maling chatting about their latest books. Bernice will be appearing in Rebellious […]
Award-winning authors Rebecca Higgie (The Book of the After) and Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes (Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና)) are taking their stories overseas to the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. Taking place across four days in October, the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival brings together over 150 creatives across more than 100 events in Indonesia. […]
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 Armadale Writers’ Festival program has dropped for 2026 and there’s something for everyone. For the readers, there are two exciting in-conversation events: Patrick Marlborough will be discussing their screwball comedy, Nock Loose on Wednesday 9 September at Seville Grove Library, and Molly Schmidt will be discussing her award-winning fiction novel, Salt River Road on […]
Books in the Brewery are taking one of their legendary events to the Wilson Brewing Company in Albany. Featuring Alan Carter, author of Prize Catch and Last Bastion and Madelaine Dickie, author of Some People Want to Shoot Me and Troppo, along with Alex Dook and Emma Pignatiello, you’ll be settling in for a thought-provoking […]
The City of Melville’s literature festival, Storylines, returns for another year, running from 20 August to 25 October. Join award-winning poet, editor, mentor and educator Bron Bateman for a writing workshop exploring the relationship between body, memory, place and the stories we carry. Through a series of carefully crafted prompts, Bron will guide writers of […]
Rounding off the last of the Dip Your Toe series of writing workshops is poet Nandi Chinna (Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant) on metaphor. A fun, expansive exploration of simile and metaphor, crafting an original and exicting one can make your manuscript sing. The workshop takes place on Saturday 1 August at […]
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 […]
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes is scheduled to appear at national and international writers festivals this year thanks to a new travel fellowship supported by the Barton Family Foundation. CEO of Fremantle Press Alex Allan said the fellowship would give festival organisers the freedom to take risks on unknown debut Western Australian authors. She said, ‘Our festivals […]
Dave Warner is best known for hard-edged crime fiction, but his latest novel, Sound Mind Dead Body, tips its hat to the Golden Age of mystery. In this interview, he talks Agatha Christie, Art Deco atmosphere, red herrings, and the race between reader and detective to solve the puzzle first. You mostly write police procedurals, […]
In 1869, R.D. Blackmore wrote about romantic heroine Lorna Doone. Years later, Bernice Barry has reimagined the lives in the book in The Names of the Hare, delivering a historical fiction novel about a girl with a knowledge of herbs becoming a woman among the witch hunts. In this interview, Bernice tells us more about […]
On your marks, get set, submit! Western Australian writers aged 18–35 are invited to submit their unpublished work of fiction, narrative non-fiction, young adult fiction or verse novel to be in the running to win $20,000, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a fellowship with the Centre for Stories. Entries close Friday 18 April […]
Entries for the 2025 Fogarty Literary Award will open on Saturday 15 March 2025, with a new category making the award more accessible for Western Australian poets. For the fourth time, the Fogarty Foundation will partner with Fremantle Press to provide one of Australia’s most significant literary prizes for young writers. The Fogarty Literary Award […]
Launched this month, Karleah Olson’s A Wreck of Seabirds was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award. It was described by the judges as a tightly written, atmospheric novel that captured the depths of human emotion. In this interview she tells us more about her journey to publication. Why did you choose a coastal setting for […]
Josh Kemp’s debut novel Banjawarn won the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award and the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction. In his new thriller, Jasper Cliff, which was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award, he deliberately leaned in to the spookier side of Australian gothic, imbuing his narrative with disturbing insights into the […]
Seth Malacari, Dr Marcella Polain and Richard Rossiter are the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award judges. Alongside Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter, they will be responsible for choosing who will win the $15,000 prize money from the City of Fremantle and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. Richard Rossiter, who has judged the award […]