Category: Impact
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 […]
Palyku creator Professor Helen Milroy has two books on the ASLA DANZ (Diversity in Austrlia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award longlist: 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 […]
Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton with Cindy Lane has been shortlisted for the Eve Pownell Award in this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards. Fremantle Press CEO Alex Allan commissioned Ningaloo from four-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award and bestselling author, Tim Winton, who is well known for his environmental activism in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fremantle Press is joining forces with UWA Publishing to host a 2026 Open Book Intern. The Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship is a paid internship designed to foster cultural diversity in Australian book publishing. It aims to provide a well-rounded introduction to the industry and create practical and sustainable pathways towards long-term careers for aspiring […]
Prema Arasu, author of new poetry collection Vampire Squid, is the inaugural recipient of a new travel fund aimed at giving debut Western Australian writers the opportunity to promote their work outside the state. The sponsorship, funded by the Forrest Research Foundation, supports the work of one new or emerging Western Australian writer each year, […]
Fremantle Press and CircusWA are excited to announce the purchase of the historic SEC Substation at 10 Parry Street, Fremantle. The move will secure a much-needed permanent home for each organisation, while preserving and activating an underutilised heritage building in the soon-to-be reinvigorated East End of the port city. This ambitious plan is made possible […]
This year’s Bookaburras program will be launched with help from author Renae Hayward, the Hon Klasey Hirst MLC, Member for Western Australia, Tania Lawrence MP, Tanya Richardson, Mayor of Swan and mascot Dewy Dex! The event takes place at Moorditj Noongar KindiLink in Middle Swan on Monday 9 June. Now in its third year, the […]
Author Renae Hayward will visit three kindergartens for the regional celebration of the 2025 Books for Little Bookaburras program this week. Starting at Beachlands KindiLink, on Wednesday 28 May, Renae will hand out mini-libraries to the students before running an interactive storytime session. Renae said she was looking forward to meeting the children in person. She […]
Seth Malacari (he/they) is a nonbinary trans masculine author and editor who is well-known to Fremantle Press. In 2023, he brought together a talented community of LGBTQIA+ writers from across the country for the anthology An Unexpected Party. Their new work is a trans-for-trans romance novel that shows how to explore the diversity of the […]
720 ABC Radio Perth will be crackling with big themes and lively conversations when it welcomes readers to its East Perth studios for the Big Day of Books on Saturday 28 June. WA’s favourite radio presenters Jo Trilling, Gary Adshead, Hilary Smale, Carrie Cox, Ali Colvin and Claire Nichols will chat to some of the […]