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City of Melville residents Liz Byrski, Ambelin Kwaymullina and Brendan Ritchie are our inaugural Great Big Book Club Tea Party reading ambassadors. The three authors have expressed their excitement about taking on the task of promoting the benefits of reading to local audiences.

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a writer? Ever pondered how successful authors got published? Susan Midalia, author of The Art of Persuasion, talks about how she started out, the difficulties of getting published and how the industry has changed.

To celebrate the publication of Dr Michael Levitt’s book The Happy Bowel, Fremantle Press is giving away four signed copies to the people who come up with puns so crappy they’ll make us bust a gut. We want you to dig deep and push out some bombs for us to share online.

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 […]

Fremantle Press author James Foley is getting busier and busier in the run-up to the publication of his next book in the S. Tinker Inc. series, Gastronauts this October.

Cheryl Kickett-Tucker is no ordinary children’s author. Once a community newspaper sports journalist, now a research scientist, associate professor and, most importantly, a writer of children’s fiction, Cheryl’s stories appear in Bush and Beyond, a collection of Indigenous stories with tales from Tjalaminu Mia, Jessica Lister and Jaylon Tucker.

If you fancy your chances as a bit of a puzzle whizz, this is your time to shine. We’re giving away the first three books in Alan Carter’s Cato Kwong series, plus the latest book, to one lucky winner. All you need to do is work out the title by solving this puzzle.

Katie is no stranger to presenting on radio, so it was always a given that she would be the one to get the book about a washed-up radio presenter: Afternoons with Harvey Beam by Carrie Cox. Katie is a writer, reader and student from Perth who grew up in Albany and Denmark. Studying English and […]

We just finished up at the Australia Council’s Visiting International Publishers program where we’ve been talking to publishers, scouts and agents. This year’s program included representatives from Germany, India, Spain, France, the US, Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK and Canada. It’s way too early to talk about any results from the program as yet but […]

From the slush pile to a $12,000 prize, and from writers centres to universities, if you’ve ever wanted to be an author, publisher Georgia Richter’s reflections about where writers come from, what she’s looking for in a writer, and how you can engage with Fremantle Press, will be invaluable.

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.

Armelle Davies joined Fremantle Press as an editor in 2018, as part of a three-year position supported by the Minderoo Foundation. She previously completed an internship at Fremantle Press in 2017, and has two degrees in international relations and a BA in Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Publishing, all from Curtin University. We asked her […]

Back by popular demand, Hellie Turner’s adaptation of Dianne Wolfer’s award-winning books comes to regional stages this April. The Lighthouse Girl enjoyed a sold-out premiere season. Black Swan State Theatre Company is now taking this unique Anzac story on the road to regional Western Australia.

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.

During the busiest week of the year for WA’s literary community, the Perth edition of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) seminar ‘Between the Covers, Behind the Counter’ attracted some more than 20 participants from the worlds of bookselling, publishing and writing. Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller reports.

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.

To coincide with the release of our memoir collection Women of a Certain Age, Fremantle Press is asking you to get involved in our campaign to bring new voices out into the world.

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.

With three picture books for younger readers, a picture book for older readers and two board books, this year’s program is characterised by exquisite visuals and philosophical storytelling. We asked children’s publisher Cate Sutherland to talk you through the Fremantle Press year in kids’ books, starting with March to August titles.