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Fremantle Press authors Kelly Canby, Amanda Curtin and Madelaine Dickie have all been shortlisted in their respective categories for one of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards 2018.

Warning: this tale involves grave-digging, tea-dipped treasure maps, and naughty school boys. Read at your peril.

Each year, the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria (HTAV) organises a Historical Fiction Competition that asks Year 5–10 students to create stories based on historical events and people. Students can write about any period of history as long as the entry has a convincing setting that is historically correct in time and place.

The Australia Council has presented Fremantle Press author Holden Sheppard with the 2019 Kathleen Mitchell Award for Australian writers under the age of 30. Holden’s novel Invisible Boys has had a dream run in the lead-up to its publication this October, first winning the 2017 Ray Koppe Residency Award and then taking out the $12,000 […]

Read the judges report from the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award.

Como resident Rebecca Higgie won the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award for her manuscript The History of Mischief at a special ceremony at the ECU Spiegeltent on Wednesday 22 May 2019. Chosen from a field of 64 manuscripts by Western Australian writers aged 18 to 35, Higgie won a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation […]

Dr Antonio Buti is a professor of law at UWA and MLA for Armadale. His latest book, A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow Case, explores the story of the only member of the Stolen Generations to win compensation for his removal from his family.

I think it is important for fictional characters to live in real places, which is why I have set my stories in locations I have visited. Often an interesting-looking town – or island, in this case – can be the spark that inspires the whole story. The Cocos Islands, approximately 2,750 kilometres north-west of Perth, […]

Wednesday 15 May marks the International Day of Families 2019. Six of our Fremantle Press children’s authors share below the best thing about their families.

Michael Burrows, Rebecca Higgie and Emma Young are still in the running for one of Australia’s newest and richest literary awards for young writers.

Michael Burrows is an author and poet from Perth. Here, he reads from his first novel, Where the Line Breaks, and talks about how it was inspired by an Anzac Day experience in Gallipoli, the search for Australian war poetry and his love for Western Australia.

Will Jacobs is a writer, engineer and Sydney Swans supporter from Perth. Here he talks about how his manuscript, Jeffrey, first started life as a song, and the important lessons he’s learned from storytelling.

Joshua Kemp is longlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award for his novel In the Shadow of Burringurrah, an Australian gothic story. Here, he talks about what inspired him to write it, male and female relationships, and why novel writing is his true love.

Ben is longlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award for his collection of contemporary short stories, Home Invasion. He’s the founder of the Bunbury Writers Hub and the Bunbury Writers Group.

Yeah, we know you’re getting bombarded with Mother’s Day gift ideas, but stick with us, because we’ve got something that will knock your mum’s socks off. Forgo the flowers and ignore the alcohol, and instead combine a gift that keeps on giving (a book, of course) with a memorable Mother’s Day date experience.

Ten Western Australian writers are longlisted and in the running for one of Australia’s newest and richest literary awards for young writers.

This will be a bit of a breathless post! I’m taking a big gulp of air between the Fremantle Press Annual General Meeting (AGM), Easter and my flight to the Sydney Writers’ Festival for some intense pitching sessions with visiting international publishers later this week.

Fremantle Press author and new mum Fiona Burrows explains how she came up with the idea of her new picture book Violet and Nothing, and why it’s never too early to encourage children to be creative.

Fremantle Press author Kathryn Lefroy doesn’t just write about alpacas, she loves everything to do with them. Her new children’s book Alex and the Alpacas Save the World sees these adorable creatures take centrestage, and why not when they’re this cute to look at.

Fremantle Press is delighted to have Lata Periakarpan interning with us for the next few months. A video whiz, writer extraordinaire and all-round creative soul, here she tells us a bit about herself.

Fremantle Press publisher Cate Sutherland will host a panel featuring Yuot Alaak, Rafeif Ismail and Scott-Patrick Mitchell as they discuss diversity in all its forms, from race and gender to sexuality and class.

Women of a Certain Age, Fremantle Press’s much-loved anthology of writing by older women, has been awarded a silver medal in the Nautilus Book Awards 2018, a silver in the IPPYs and has been named a finalist in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

To the Lighthouse by Cristy Burne and Dungzilla by James Foley have been shortlisted for the 2019 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA).

Dave Warner’s latest crime novel River of Salt comes complete with its own music, and you can listen to it right now.