Category: In person
Get ready to step out of the garden and into the library as celebrity gardener Sabrina Hahn visits Success Library to celebrate Library Lover’s Day! Join Sabrina on Thursday 13 February at 6.00 pm for an exciting evening where she will unveil the secrets from her new book, How to Do It in the Garden. […]
Award-winning author, musician and screenwriter Dave Warner is taking his latest novel, When It Rains, on tour around the East Coast this autumn. The newest instalment in his acclaimed Dan Clement series, When It Rains, begins with a hand tied to a post in the crocodile-infested waters of Broome, Western Australia. Dave Warner shared, ‘With […]
Join us as we launch Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady, the inspirational story of Robin Miller, a pioneering nurse and pilot who flew life-saving polio vaccines to remote communities across Western Australia in the 1960s.
Join David Whish-Wilson and his gripping new thriller, Cutler, at one of these special evening of conversation with Australian crime writer Michael Trant. Get a sneak peek into the world of two fantastic Australian crime writers.
Join editors and curators Angela Savage and Kirsten Krauth for a special launch of Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist! This supersized event features fourteen of the anthology’s contributing authors, including Christos Tsiolkas, Lucy Treloar and Nicholas Gadd.
Join Michael Earp, editor of Avast! Pirate Stories from Transgender Authors, for an evening of engaging conversation about the writing and editing process, the evolution of YA fiction, and what’s on the horizon.
Deborah Pike will be discussing her latest novel The Players in conversation with local author Susan Midalia.
On Saturday 12 October author Brooke Dunnell will be at the Mandurah Library as part of the Mandurah Library Writers in the Library series that aims to bring together authors and readers to foster a love of reading and encourage creativity in the community.
Get down to the Queenscliffe Literary Festival and visit Fremantle Press author and editor of Avast! Pirate Stories From Transgender Authors, Michael Earp.
On Wednesday 20 November, the City of Melville host cosy crime author Alexander Thorpe at Civic Square Library for an in-conversation event unveiling his latest novel, Death Holds the Key. In Death Leaves the Station, audiences were introduced to a nameless mendicant monk who helped solve a baffling crime in Western Australia’s outback. In Death Holds the […]
Be a part of a special comminity event at City of Vincent Library as part of their Pride month celebration where everyone is welcome. Author Em Readman will lead the conversation and discuss the importance of queer community that they found in the 2023 queer anthology An Unexpected Party, a collection of futuristic, science-fiction, paranormal and speculative […]
We invite all transgender and gender diverse storytellers and readers to join us for Trans Stories Matter: a publishing industry panel discussion about transgender stories and representation. Hosted by editor and founder of Get YA Words Out, Seth Malacari (he/they), guests will include Nat Latter (they/them) from Rabble Books & Games and Fremantle Press publishers Georgia Richter […]
Calling all storytellers! Join Joanna Morrison at the Open Book for a three-part creative writing course to unlock your creativity, hone your skills, and workshop your own short story in a fun and constructive environment.
Come along to hear travel writer Tim Richards talk about his 7000 kilometre rail journey around Australia, from the tropics to the desert and big cities to ghost towns, and his book, Heading South.
The Wheeler Centre are hosting The Next Big Thing: Known Unknowns Edition on Monday 11 April, and you’re invited. Join five incredible emerging and debut writers, including Zena Cumpston one of the contributors of Unlimited Futures, as they take you to uncanny planes of uncertainty and unfixed possibility. If you like the sound of any of […]
Join debut author Karen Herbert in the Open Book courtyard for an evening in conversation with Jo Morrison, as they discuss Karen’s novel, The River Mouth. Enjoy a drink and nibbles on arrival, doors open from 6.30 pm with the talk commencing at 7 pm.
Join editor Rafeif Ismail at the City of Vincent Library to hear about Unlimited Futures, an anthology of speculative, visionary fiction from 21 emerging and established First Nations and Black writers which reflects visionary pasts, hopeful futures and the invisible ties between First Nations people and People of Colour. This event is free to attend, […]
Get the professional insights you need to truly succeed as an author at The Business of Being a Writer Seminar 2022 presented as part of Perth Festival. If you’ve ever thought about being a writer, then look no further than this four part seminar series to answer all your questions. Georgia Richter, author of How […]
Join us at Fremantle Arts Centre for an evening beneath the Milky Way celebrating the superstars of local literature as we launch 19 new books and commemorate 45 years of publishing. Hosted by Deb Fitzpatrick and Yuot A. Alaak, the night will feature talented local authors and artists Alex Forrest, Aśka, Cristy Burne, David Allan-Petale, […]
I always love listening in to Josephine Taylor sharing her abundance of knowledge with enthusiasm and candour. I recently watched her chat to Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter on ‘Writing for History’ at the Great Big Book Club. The two spoke about vulvodynia, the central topic of Josephine’s novel, Eye of a Rook, history’s shunning […]
Small Steps: A Physio in Ethiopia by Julie Sprigg will be launched by fellow Fremantle Press non-fiction writer Anne-Louise Willoughby at 6.30 pm on Thursday 10 September at the Balmoral Hotel. Supported by Crow Books, Julie, who is based in Victoria Park, will use the event as an opportunity to raise money for the not-for-profit […]
Head down to the City of Perth Library from now until 18 October for an amazing exhibition by our children’s and YA authors. The exhibit will showcase the inspiration, draft notes and illustrations, artworks and more behind their books.
It’s Refugee Week and author of Father of the Lost Boys Yuot A. Alaak is celebrating by using the launch for his memoir to raise money for his new charitable foundation. Yuot has established the Ajang Alaak Foundation in his dad’s honour to help promote education, especially among vulnerable girls, both in Australia and in […]