Category: Announcements

Fremantle Press is seeking voice actors for its exciting new audiobook pilot. The audiobook pilot will focus on accessibility in education, and making local stories and Australia’s rich cultural heritage available to more listeners. Fremantle Press has announced the first three books will be junior to middle readers, with a further three titles to be […]

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 […]

7 October 2026 Tim Scott has joined Fremantle Press as the Audio Production Assistant. Located at Fremantle Press’s first permanent home, the SEC Substation at 10 Parry Street, Tim will play a pivotal role in the development of an exciting audiobook pilot and a new series of Fremantle Press podcasts. Alex Allan, CEO of Fremantle […]

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 […]

O’Keefe by David Whish-Wilson has taken out the fiction prize in the WA Premier’s Book Awards. David’s win has taken place just days after releasing his latest crime novel Free World. O’Keefe is a pulse-pounding thriller that takes a hard look at the Australian ‘cocaine gold rush’, where maritime crime meets the ruthless currents of […]

Australian journalist Geoff Hutchison has teamed up with a retired federal court judge and a shady footy columnist from the Fremantle Shipping News for The Season with Snaps Truly. Hutchison, who is representing the elusive author Snaps Truly, said, ‘The Season is less of a blow-by-blow of every 2026 game, and more of a series of […]

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 […]

Chris Palazzolo, author of Personal Logistics, has won the 2026 Mattie Furphy Short Story Competition for his piece, ‘The Water Getting Red’. Judge Brooke Dunnell described Chris’s work as an experimental story that used vivid and complex detail to describe the experiences of a man returning to a pivotal moment of childhood on the last […]

Bernice Barry received an extra special birthday gift this year when she learned her novel The Names of a Hare was longlisted for the 2026 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. Now in its 25th year, this national literary prize has become an established and respected part of the literary landscape, with books scrutinised […]

Ninni Yabini by Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker and Tyrown Waigana has been selected for the IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages. Chosen by an international committee of influential experts on children’s books after a global call for submissions, the list was unveiled at the 40th IBBY World Congress in […]

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 […]

Fremantle Press’s first permanent home, the SEC Substation at 10 Parry Street, is set to crackle and hum with the sound of new podcasts and new audiobooks, thanks to the generosity of Stott Hoare, in partnership with Microsoft. A dedicated podcast room with microphones, audio recording equipment, a big screen and a dedicated laptop were […]

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 pleased to announce the appointment of Louise Jones as Chair of Board and Sue Wilson as Deputy Chair. Louise replaces Clair Medhurst, who stepped down from the Board at the 2026 AGM. Longtime board members David Ansell and John Hoddinott have also stepped down. Louise Jones has been on the board for […]