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Celebrate the release of Act Cute by Andrew Sutherland in Melbourne! Act Cute is the second collection by the award-winning Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker. In it, Andrew addresses the gap between memory and the present, and asks how to perform a coherent self amidst the forces of nostalgia, institutional entanglements and reckonings, and […]

Join Fremantle Press and 2023 Fogarty Literary Award shortlister Emily Paull (The Distance Between Dreams) at Bassendean Library on Thursday 26 June! She’ll be in conversation with romance writer Rachael Johns (The Bad Bridesmaid, The Other Bridget) about their creative processes, writing journeys and emotionally engaging novels. You’re in for an evening of warmth, wit […]

Don’t miss Andrew Sutherland’s visit to Boorloo/Perth to launch their new poetry collection, Act Cute. Held at Rabble bookshop on Thursday 10 July, Andrew will be joined by Rashida Murphy, as well as writers Casey Mulder, Prema Arasu and Marziya Mohammedali, who will also be reading. Act Cute is the second poetry collection from Andrew, […]

It’s nearly time for the 2025 Emerging Writers Festival! The program launch will take place on 7 August at 6:30 pm (AEST) at The Wheeler Centre. Not in Naarm/Melbourne? No problem! The launch will be streamed nationally online, so you can join in the literary fun from home. The program promises to burst with cross-disciplinary […]

This year’s Bookaburras program will be launched with help from author Renae Hayward, the Hon Klasey Hirst MLC, Member for Western Australia, Tania Lawrence MP, Tanya Richardson, Mayor of Swan and mascot Dewy Dex! The event takes place at Moorditj Noongar KindiLink in Middle Swan on Monday 9 June. Now in its third year, the […]

Chuckie Raven won the 2025 Fogarty Literary Award at the Western Australian Government House Ballroom on Tuesday 3 June. Raven receives a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a $1,500 writing fellowship from Centre for Stories for their winning manuscript Glimmers in the Sea Glass. Raven described […]

In Glimmers in the Sea Glass Chuckie Raven shares the stories of Sarah and Owen, two queer characters existing two decades apart. In this podcast the Fogarty Shortlister tells Katherine Allum how they wrote two novels then wove them into one – discovering some important lessons about their writing in the process. Tune in here […]

When she heard she’d been shortlisted regional writer Serena Moss said she’d been inspired to enter after seeing another ‘Gero’ writer, Holden Sheppard (also from Geraldton), build a writing career. The comparison is apt because this Waggrakine resident gives an equally unapologetic take on small town Australia: from the burn-outs to the booze and from […]

Could you imagine being stuck underground in a dark, flooded mine? Well, this was the reality for one Bonnie Vale miner in 1907. Trapped! is a true story by Julia Lawrinson, told entirely in verse and through the eyes of the trapped miner’s son, Joe. In this activity based on the book, have students think […]

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'What are your essentials?'

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In this latest board book from the dynamic author-illustrator duo of Jayden Boundry and Tyrown Waigana, Boodja Barna, is a fully illustrated guide to Aussie animals. Have students test their knowledge of the Noongar names for land creatures in our free teaching activity. Fill in the blanks and colour in the gorgeous native animals. Don’t […]

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'Colour in the boodja barna'

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The Hope Diamond may have brought misfortune to anyone who possessed it, but luckily that isn’t the case with our new activity sheets! Based on the engaging and mysterious tale in The Deadly Diamond by Mark Greenwood, students can put their geography skills to the test and track the diamond’s journey around the world. In […]

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'Map the journey of the Hope Diamond'

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In Mark Greenwood’s latest history mystery, The Wonder Horse, delve deep into the legend of the racehorse Phar Lap. In our free teaching activities based on the book, students can create their own poster about some of Phar Lap’s victories and major milestones, then research and draw other legendary animals who deserve a place in […]

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'Hall of Fame Portrait'

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Fremantle Press authors Alison Evans, Bron Bateman and Jes Layton will be appearing at the Q-Lit Festival at various locations around Melbourne, with author and editor Michael Earp acting as Chair and co-programmer. Join them for a week of joy, conversation and community. Jes Layton is speaking about the books that capture the beauty, pain […]

Melbourne! Don your jumpers, grab your book bags and head down to Williamstown for the annual Willy Lit Fest. Spinning Around editor Angela Savage will be appearing with authors Miriam Sved, Thuy On and Chris Flynn for readings on the Kylie Minogue songs they can’t get out of their heads. A dance party will follow, […]

In Out There, In Here, Jessica Baker explores whether we can solve our internal problems by being ‘out there’. In this fascinating conversation she and Katherine Allum discuss the fantasy of escaping the day-to-day vs its reality, and bond over writing manuscripts in the in-between spaces of expat London. Tune in here or on your […]

Author Renae Hayward will visit three kindergartens for the regional celebration of the 2025 Books for Little Bookaburras program this week. Starting at Beachlands KindiLink, on Wednesday 28 May, Renae will hand out mini-libraries to the students before running an interactive storytime session. Renae said she was looking forward to meeting the children in person. She […]

Narell Black is the Principal Consultant for KindiLink in the Primary Early Childhood & Education Support Statewide Services. In this short read she shares her top tips for carers and parents on how to use their Bookaburras packs. Conversational reading is a back-and-forth way of sharing books, where adults and children take turns talking, it […]

Celebrate with us! To make your book-giving ceremony extra special we’ve prepared an online storytime session with Renee Hayward reading from Say Hello. You can watch below. There are also lots of fun and free activity sheets for you to download for the Bookaburras program! space space space space space space space space space space […]

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'Make your own door hanger'

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Seth Malacari (he/they) is a nonbinary trans masculine author and editor who is well-known to Fremantle Press. In 2023, he brought together a talented community of LGBTQIA+ writers from across the country for the anthology An Unexpected Party. Their new work is a trans-for-trans romance novel that shows how to explore the diversity of the […]

Out There, In Here by Jessica Baker wins most travelled manuscript in this year’s Fogarty Literary Award shortlist. Begun in Manjimup, the story survived a van journey across the country and expat life in London before being submitted from Kununurra. It’s a testament to Jessica’s need to tell this story that it survived the upheaval […]

720 ABC Radio Perth will be crackling with big themes and lively conversations when it welcomes readers to its East Perth studios for the Big Day of Books on Saturday 28 June. WA’s favourite radio presenters Jo Trilling, Gary Adshead, Hilary Smale, Carrie Cox, Ali Colvin and Claire Nichols will chat to some of the […]

Serena Moss writes emotionally raw, structurally sharp fiction set in the kinds of places maps skip over. Her stories are built from wreckage, roadside grief, and the kind of characters who swear too much, care too hard, and keep showing up – even when it hurts. Wherever there’s room, she’ll write into it. Based in […]

Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter describes Boy Friends as a fun, heartwarming read with just the right amount of young adult angst, new love and hot characters. Fogarty shortlister Seth Malacari is one of four writers in the running to win a $20,000 cash prize, a publishing contract and a writing fellowship. Seth told host […]

Chuckie Raven is a youth worker and craftsperson with a passion for protecting queer kids. In their spare time they enjoy spending far too much on their hobbies. One that has stuck with them throughout their life is writing. In their earlier years they wrote poetry they are loath to revisit. In their early adulthood […]