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The Fremantle Press Podcast

Perhaps you’re a lover of Aussie literature or just love book chat of any kind; perhaps you’re an aspiring author or illustrator; or perhaps you’re someone who hopes one day to work in publishing. If you fit any of these descriptions, this is a podcast you may want to subscribe to.

Where can you listen? On your favourite podcast apps such as Apple iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify or SoundCloud, or use the players provided below.

Want to know more about what’s in store? Read our blog post introducing the Fremantle Press Podcast.

Meet Howard McKenzie-Murray, shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

Meet Jodie Tes, shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast – episode 4: Author Julia Lawrinson pays tribute to her time in the fast-food industry

How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast – episode 3: Author Julia Lawrinson explores her relationship with her grandparents and the generation gap between them

How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast episode 2: Author Julia Lawrinson spills all about being a riotous youth in WA during the 90s

How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast episode 1: Author Julia Lawrinson traces her family lineage to reveal generational truths about divorce

Meet Katherine Allum whose manuscript The Skeleton House is a work of literary fiction characterised by a controlled delivery and a sense of suffocating foreboding

Patrick Marlborough discusses Nock Loose on the Fremantle Press podcast

Prema Arasu discusses The Anatomy of Witchcraft on the Fremantle Press podcast

History repeats itself for writer Emily Paull who has been shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award

Introducing Karleah Olson whose manuscript, A Wreck of Seabirds, has secured her a place on the Fogarty Literary Award shortlist

Introducing Bunbury writer Josh Kemp whose manuscript, Jasper Cliff has him commended in the Fogarty Literary Awards for a second time

Maria Papas presents: Introducing Joy Killian-Essert, one of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award shortlisted authors

Maria Papas presents: Meet the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award shortlisted writer Marie O’Rourke

Maria Papas presents: Gerard McCann – one of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award shortlisters

Maria Papas presents: Introducing shortlisted writer for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Molly Schmidt.

Brooke Dunnell presents: David Whish-Wilson on overcoming the fear of the known

Helen Milroy presents: Tyrown Waigana on learning the language of the land

Brooke Dunnell presents: crime novelist Karen Herbert says spreadsheets can help you wrangle a rogue plot

Noongar Boodja Waangkan pronunciation guide introduction

Noongar pronunciation guide: Moort (Family)

Noongar pronunciation guide: Ngany (Body) and Moolymari (Face)

Noongar pronunciation guide: Boodja (Country)

Noongar pronunciation guide: Boorn wer djet (Trees and flowers)