Meet Seth Malacari, whose manuscript Boy Friends is a queer YA romance set against the backdrop of reality TV
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 Katherine Allum they want to use the prize to encourage the trans community to keep writing and keep sharing stories.
Tune in here or on your favourite podcast app to find out more.
Show notes
About Seth
Seth Malacari (he/they) is a nonbinary trans masculine author and editor living in Dianella, WA. He edited the anthology, An Unexpected Party (Fremantle Press, 2023), featuring stories from emerging authors from the LGBTQIA+ community. Their work has been published in various anthologies, including Head Under Water, Ourselves: 100 Micro Memoirs and Emergence: SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition. Seth is currently undertaking a creative writing PhD at UWA.
Seth on socials: Instagram @sethmalacari
About the hosts
Katherine Allum is an award-winning fiction author. Her debut novel, The Skeleton House, won the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award. American-born, she grew up in four different states, but has strongest ties to Portland, Oregon and regional southwest Nevada. After spending several years in the UK, where she completed an MA at City, University of London, she now lives in Perth with her husband. She does her best story plotting while swimming.
Katherine’s website: www.katherineallum.com
Katherine on socials: Instagram @katherine.allum
Georgia Richter joined Fremantle Press in 2008 as fiction, narrative non-fiction and poetry publisher. She has an MA (Creative Writing) from the University of Western Australia and is an IPEd Accredited Editor. She has taught creative writing, professional writing and editing at the universities of Melbourne and Western Australia, as well as at Curtin University.
Books by Georgia Richter, Fremantle Press publisher
How to be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia
About the award
Read more about this year’s shortlist here.
The Fogarty Literary Award is a biennial prize for an unpublished manuscript by a Western Australian author aged between 18 and 35 for a work of fiction, narrative non-fiction, young adult fiction or verse novel. The winner receives a cash prize of $20,000 from the Fogarty Foundation, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a Fellowship with the Centre for Stories.
The Fogarty Foundation was established by Brett and Annie Fogarty in 2000 to support and provide educational and leadership opportunities for young people across the spectrum of the Western Australian community. As well as partnering with a range of organisations, the foundation has initiated its own programs that include the UWA Fogarty Scholarship Program, CoderDojo WA and Fogarty EDvance.
Music: ‘Letter to a Daughter of St George’, from the Meat Lunch EP: Songs from Floaters. Written by Alan Fyfe. Performed by Trevor Bentley (guitar and vocals – @trevormb) and Chris Parkinson (harmonica). Produced by Blake Carnaby of Nuglife Studios with impresario work by Benjamin P. Newton.
Producer: Claire Miller
Mastered by: Aidan d’Adhemar
