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Ray Glickman will return to his previous stomping ground to launch his debut novel Reality at Readings St Kilda on Thursday 3 July. The former Executive Manager for the City of St Kilda said the council loomed large in his portrayal of the central character’s working life.

Vale to a beautiful man with a huge intellect and a social conscience to match. Niall, your contribution to the good side has been deeply felt and always appreciated. We are all diminished by the books you won’t get to write. But the ripples will go on. With love, and condolences to Sam and family, […]

Cybersafety, digital citizenship, digital literacy … most of us have heard these terms, but what do they really mean in practice? Jeremy Blackman and Sandra Craig work with the Alannah and Madeline Foundation, a national charity protecting children from violence and creating behavioural change in the community to address bullying and cyberbullying.

Albany author and fisherwoman Sarah Drummond was having lunch with her current boss, a landscaper, when she got the call to say she was longlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award.

Albany-based author Dianne Wolfer was shortlisted twice today for the 2014 Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year Awards.

Fremantle Press author Tracy Farr is celebrating today after her debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt was longlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is touring the Eastern States with an adaptation of Tim Winton’s classic children’s book The Deep. From March 28 to May 23, the show will be stopping at nineteen different locations across Victoria, Tasmania, News South Wales and Queensland.

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Thank you AIM WA

For the past four years we have received generous support from AIM WA in the form of scholarships for staff to attend professional development courses at the institute. These kinds of courses would normally be out of the budget reach of most not-for-profit organisation such as ours. This year we received a $2000 grant which […]

Massachusetts-based publisher Star Bright Books has bought the US rights to two Fremantle Press junior reads this week: The Amazing Spencer Gray by Deb Fitzpatrick and Darcy Moon and the Deep-Fried Frogs by Catherine Carvell.

The City of Fremantle has given its support for the next six years for the prestigious T.A.G. Hungerford Award alongside existing partners writingWA, The West Australian and Fremantle Press. As the naming sponsor, the City will provide the winning writer’s cash prize of $12,000 and will play a major role in hosting Fremantle events associated […]

Whisky Charlie Foxtrot by Western Australian author Annabel Smith will be published in North America early next year.

Newly minted Fremantle Press author Nandi Chinna has won the Tom Collins Prize for Poetry for her poem ‘Cut and Paste Lake’. Chinna said she was very pleased to have won the award.

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Clive’s Corner

The latest news from the Fremantle Press Sales, Rights and Distribution Manager, Clive Newman

The Press is currently seeking new Western Australian photographers with existing portfolios of work on a variety of subjects.

Author Norman Jorgensen’s research notes on inspiring Viking women.

WA author Dianne Touchell’s debut novel is heading to Germany.

Crime novelist Alan Carter is getting warmer after signing deals that will see his Cato Kwong series published in Europe.

Fremantle Press illustrators are again set to shine at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in March 2014. Drawings from Light Horse Boy will feature in the Australian Publishers Association exhibition Hello! from Australia while The Last Viking and Dreamers will feature in the exhibition’s book showcase.

Whisky Charlie Foxtrot by Annabel Smith was shortlisted for the Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA) today.

Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia’s most revered writers – Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of her startling […]

Children’s author Dianne Wolfer was delighted to receive the 2013 Louise Schofield Award for Services to the Western Australian branch of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).

Getting Warmer author Alan Carter is in Shanghai researching his third novel in the Cato Kwong Series. Here are his top literary spots for the criminally inclined.

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NZ literary hotspots

New Zealand–based author Tracy Farr lists the must-see destinations for visiting literature lovers.

Award-winning local artist Brian Simmonds is launching his new book, Rottnest Island, with an exhibition of his works at Elements Art Gallery in Dalkeith on Friday 4 October at 6:30pm.