News
This book trailer was created for Fremantle Press by students at Curtin University.
Harmless might be an interesting resource to consider when exploring the cross-curriculum priority: Asia and Australia’s relationship with Asia. The free book club notes include an author interview and discussion questions. Or try this teaching activity for Year 10.
Indigenous artist and author Sally Morgan is one of 16 artists participating in A Child is Born, an exhibition to raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation at the Wesley Uniting Church in Perth this December.
Naama Amram says; ‘I’m an editor. Mainly, I work with authors to develop content, and I guide finished manuscripts through the production process.’
Cathy Szabo is the Customer Service Manager at Fremantle Press. She is responsible for invoicing, administration support, ebook uploads, website updates and much more she doesn’t think is worth mentioning.
Georgia Richter is the Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-fiction Publisher who prefers to edit many of her own books.
Cate Sutherland is the Children’s Publisher. She refers to her job as ‘taking care of all children’s books for babies through to young adults’.
Popular columnist, ABC broadcaster and landscape gardener Sabrina Hahn said no plants generate more questions than citrus.
Claire Miller is the Marketing and Communications Manager at Fremantle Press. She is a builder’s daughter and helps construct IKEA book cases as required.
Books by Fremantle Press poet Tracy Ryan, author Michelle Gillespie and illustrator Sonia Martinez were amongst the eight winners announced at the 2011 Western Australian Premier’s Awards on Monday 17 September.
Meet Fremantle Press starting from the top with CEO and Non-fiction Publisher Jane Fraser.
Fremantle Press is on a roll this year with foreign rights sales for Western Australian authors in Poland, North America, France, Germany, Korea, China, Romania and a worldwide sale in the Arabic language.
Illustrator Moira Court got a double dose of good news when she learnt that her artwork for the picture book My Superhero would be acquired by the State Library of WA in the same week she was shortlisted for the Black Swan Prize for Heritage.
In The House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley Susan Swingler, author and step-daughter of Elizabeth Jolley, reveals the ‘everything’ that her step-mother once stated, ‘should not be told’. In this interview Susan tells us a little about her book and what audiences can expect from her Australian appearances.
It has been a glittering awards season for Fremantle Press. Norman Jorgensen and James Foley, the creative team behind The Last Viking, have made it to the shortlist of five awards – the most recent being a Children’s Book Council of Australia Award and an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction (alongside The Waterboys by Peter […]
Fremantle Press and Australian literature lost a champion and great friend with the passing of Professor Bruce Bennett on 14 April. Bruce was a founding member of the Fremantle Press board and passionate supporter of our program from its inception.
Composers Anne Boyd and Elena Kats-Chernin are amongst those who will help launch Women of Note: The Rise of Australian Women Composers on International Women’s Day 2012.
Fremantle Press sends its condolences to the family and friends of Alice Smith. Alice was the co-author of Under a Bilari Tree I Born; a moving autobiographical story of her life as an Aboriginal woman living on stations in and around the West Pilbara.
Maylands resident Norman Jorgensen has been shortlisted for a Western Australian Young Readers’ Book Award (WAYRBA) for his second book in a row.
Q&A with Deb Fitzpatrick GR Magazine
Prime Cut by crime writer Alan Carter has won theBest First Fiction category of the 2011 Ned Kelly Awards.
Prime Cut by crime writer Alan Carter has been shortlisted for Best First Fiction in the 2011 Ned Kelly Awards.
Get to know a little more about Tracy Ryan.
Fremantle Press author Goldie Goldbloom has picked up another award in the United States for her first novel The Paperbark Shoe (known in the States as Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders).