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With lots of kids attending the launch of The Last Viking Returns on 10 September 2014 I decided to get creative. Book launches can be notoriously dull, especially when author and illustrator speeches consist mostly of thanking everyone who gave birth to them or helped create the book or once said something kind about them […]

  Before their most recent collaboration, award-winning creators Norman Jorgensen and James Foley released a fun picture book about a little boy who outwits local bullies by channelling his inner Viking. The Last Viking was its name and Knut was its hero. Find out where all that pillaging began by listening to this reading of […]

West Australian teachers may already know Jen from the serialisation of Mystery at Riddle Gully in the Ed! Section of The West Australian. Her latest book Riddle Gully Runaway can be read as a follow-up to Mystery at Riddle Gully or as a stand-alone book.

Mentors and teachers can have a profound effect on our careers. In this article we hear from three authors who are working with new and emerging writers in Perth. Natasha Lester (If I should lose you), Iris Lavell (Elsewhere in Success) and Deb Fitzpatrick (The Break) are all published authors who’ve been mentoring writing colleagues.

Great choux pastry is easier than you think. The author of Et Voila! shows you how.

PR Coordinator Verity Gorman started at Fremantle Press as an intern in 2011 and quickly became an essential part of the marketing team. On the cusp of her graduation from Curtin University, she’ll soon be off to the very green pastures of Albany and a job at GWN7. We wish her success in all her […]

Annie Boyd’s Koombana Days received a commendation in the 2014 Margaret Medcalf Award held at the State Library of Western Australia on Wednesday 18 June.

Proceeds from the sale of The Miners has raised $135,000 for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Copies of the book were auctioned off by Atlas Iron Chairman and Western Australian of the Year, David Flanagan, with the most expensive copy fetching $60,000. The Miners was a Fremantle Press consultancy project for Atlas Iron that pays tribute […]

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.

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.

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.