Category: In person
Tim Minchin has called The Players ambitious and moving, Bem Le Hunte says it is enticing, and Melinda Harvey says it is funny and wise. But long before she found herself garnering praise, Deborah Pike was dreaming of a cast of characters whose passion and rivalry would bind them across time and continents.
The Victorian Pride Centre will celebrate the launch of Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist, featuring a diverse group of queer authors, a third of whom identify as LGBTQIA+, who contributed to the anthology. This will panel will feature editor Angela Savage, and authors Christos Tsoilkas, Dmetri Kakmi, Jes Layton, and Miriam Sved.
Published in association with THEATRE 180, Courage Be My Friend by Jenny Davis OAM is the story of Sister Vivian Bullwinkel, who was the only survivor of the Bangka Island Massacre during World War II. Returning for it’s second theatrical run, the theatre production that inspired the book is called 21 HEARTS: Vivian Bullwinkel and the Nurses of the Vyner Brooke.
The Australian Short Story Festival has landed in Fremantle for its eighth year, celebrating the artistry of short stories. Among the lineup includes three Fogarty Literary Award winners – Katherine Allum (2023), Brooke Dunnell (2021) and Rebecca Higgie (2019) – and City of Fremantle Hungerford Award winner Holden Sheppard (2018).
On Wednesday 20 November, the City of Melville host cosy crime author Alexander Thorpe at AH Bracks Library + Creative Space 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 […]
Musician and award-winning crime author Dave Warner is heading west this October to perform at the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award ceremony, hosted at the Fremantle Arts Centre on Thursday 24 October. Dave will also tour the Perth metropolitan area to celebrate the release of his new novel When It Rains.
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 […]
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 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, […]