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Sienna Rose Scully is the youngest of four children. She is an Integrated Marketing Communications graduate who grew up in Noongar Whadjuk Boodja (Fremantle), Western Australia. Sienna has dealt with OCD since childhood and is passionate about bringing awareness to what this disorder entails and to help other OCD sufferers. She is a contributor to […]
When launching A Wreck of Seabirds by Karleah Olson and Jasper Cliff by Josh Kemp, Annie Fogarty AM took the opportunity to announce a substantial uplift in funding for the State’s premier young writer’s award. Inaugurated in 2019, the Fogarty Literary Award for young Western Australian writers quickly established itself as a major supporter of […]
Josh Kemp, author of Australian gothic fiction, will be touring his latest novel, Jasper Cliff, at a WA library near you. Josh says he is attracted to writing Gothic fiction as a mode of storytelling that explores the legacy and trauma of colonisation. ‘Australian Gothic is an incredibly diverse mode of fiction that emerged during the […]
David Whish-Wilson, Alan Carter and Dave Warner will premiere their latest crime novels as part of an online panel hosted by Cheryl Akle from Better Reading. This free event will take place on Thursday 12 September at 6.00 pm AWST (8.00 pm AEST). When It Rains begins with a hand tied to a post in the […]
Launched this month, Karleah Olson’s A Wreck of Seabirds was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award. It was described by the judges as a tightly written, atmospheric novel that captured the depths of human emotion. In this interview she tells us more about her journey to publication. Why did you choose a coastal setting for […]
A Leaf Called Greaf, illustrated and designed by Kelly Canby was named runner up in the Best Published Book Cover Design Award in the Whitsundays Literary Heart Awards this weekend. The Whitsundays Festival launched the Literary Heart Awards earlier this year, offering cash prizes to recognise and honour outstanding contributions to the literary and design landscape. In […]
Josh Kemp’s debut novel Banjawarn won the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award and the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction. In his new thriller, Jasper Cliff, which was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award, he deliberately leaned in to the spookier side of Australian gothic, imbuing his narrative with disturbing insights into the […]
Bianca Breen has joined Fremantle Press as a Digital Publicist, undertaking a contract for maternity leave cover for the next six months. The new role will focus on marketing across all digital channels; coordinating social media marketing, the website and edirectmail campaigns as well as helping implement online promotions with partner organisations and distributors. Head […]
BOOKS
Fremantle Press are proud to launch the new novel Cutler by David Whish-Wilson.
Nedingar: Ancestors by Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm has been recognised for a third time in this year’s awards season. The dual language picture book has already been shortlisted for an Environment Award by the Wilderness Society and has been made a CBCA Notable Book. Now it is in the running for Speech Pathology Australia’s […]
The life of beloved children’s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller to turn a life of intense headlines into a wild, marvellous tale. In the penultimate episode, memoirist Julia Lawrinson discusses the notion of rootlessness by taking a look at her peripatetic childhood […]
A Leaf Called Greaf, illustrated and designed by Kelly Canby, and I Am the Mau, designed by Rebecca Mills, have been shortlisted for the Best Published Book Cover Design Award in the Whitsundays Literary Heart Awards. Overall, just four submissions were selected for the shortlist and are in the running for the first prize of $1,500 and $500 […]
Nedingar: Ancestors by Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm has been recognised for a third time in this year’s awards season. The dual language picture book has already been shortlisted for an Environment Award by the Wilderness Society and has been made a CBCA Notable Book. Now it is in the running for Speech Pathology Australia’s Book […]
Josh Kemp’s debut novel, Banjawarn, won the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award, the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Best Emerging Writer. His sophomore novel, Jasper Cliff, was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award for best WA writer under 35. Now this talented young writer is […]
Publishing industry game changers Michael Earp and Seth Malacari will appear at the Emerging Writers Festival, which takes place at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne this September. The pair have each been responsible for discovering and nurturing new LGBTQIA+ talent and pushing the boundaries of storytelling. Seth Malacari, co-publisher, editor and curator of the queer […]
Poet Nandi Chinna and Nyikina Elder Professor Anne Poelina will appear at a poetry reading event at Mundaring Arts Centre on Saturday 14 September, and will be reading from their new poetry collaboration Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant. Nandi says every sentient being, like the Martuwarra River at the centre of the poetry collection, has something to […]
City of Fremantle Hungerford Award winner Molly Schmidt is in the running for The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize for her coming-of age-novel Salt River Road. Now in its tenth year, and the only award run by an independent Melbourne bookshop, the Readings Prize supports new and outstanding Australian voices with the winners receiving a $5,000 […]
Australia’s most coveted prize for children’s literature has gone to Fremantle Press author Kelly Canby for her 2023 picture book Timeless. The CBCA Picture Book of the Year rewards outstanding books of the genre in which the creators achieve both artistic and literary unity. Children’s publisher at Fremantle Press, Cate Sutherland, said every one of Kelly’s […]
Artists Kelly Canby, Rebecca Mills and Nada Backovic have all been honoured in the inaugural Whitsundays Literary Heart Awards. Their book cover designs for A Leaf Called Greaf (Kelly Canby), Courage Be My Friend (Rebecca Mills), I am the Mau (Rebecca Mills), and The Skeleton House (Nada Backovic) are longlisted for the Best Published Book […]
When Robert Edeson needs facts, he often makes them up. Edeson says, ‘In my view, that’s the sublime (and subversive) prerogative of a fiction writer. It is also strangely liberating after an obediently truthful life in science.’
Bring your children to Subiaco Library on the morning of Saturday 14 September at 10.00 am for a morning filled with live readings, sensory activities and crafting with author Renae Hayward and illustrator Rebecca Mills as we launch Say Hello.
Three Fremantle Press crime writers are set to reveal brand new novels at this September’s BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, taking place at the State Library of New South Wales. BAD audiences will be the first to get a taste of Cutler by David Whish-Wilson, Prize Catch by Alan Carter and When it Rains by […]
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