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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.

In this very special episode of Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press, Yuot A. Alaak shares his refugee experience and talks about the importance of sharing real and nuanced African stories with Rebecca Higgie

Susan Midalia, Donna Mazza, Emily Paull and Bindy Pritchard talk turning points and the long and short of fiction writing on this week’s episode of Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press

In Love to Read Local Radio with Fremantle Press, authors Helen Milroy and Brenton E. McKenna tell Madelaine Dickie stories are for everyone and are fundamental to our existence

If you’ve ever wondered how a picture book gets from the head of the creator into the hands of our children, this is the podcast episode for you

Susan Midalia and Laurie Steed discuss their latest novels, Western Australian books to watch and the very special art of mentoring

There are lots of myths and misconceptions about the editor–author relationship: in this podcast Jon Doust and Georgia Richter take you under the covers of their decade-long collaboration on Jon’s trilogy One Boy’s Journey to Man

Superstar children’s book writers Julia Lawrinson and A.J. Betts join the Fremantle Press podcast to share their new books and their top tips for successful author gigs

Poet Bron Bateman on writing, memory and the female body

February 11, 2020

From the Hungerford award to an epic new novel, Madelaine Dickie chats to Holden Sheppard about writing, the Kimberley and Indigenous affairs on the Fremantle Press podcast

December 3, 2019

Rebecca Higgie talks to children’s fantasy writer HM Waugh about world-building, NaNoWriMo and balancing kids and creativity

October 31, 2019

Holden Sheppard talks to David Whish-Wilson about his hard-hitting new crime novel True West and what it says about our right-wing past and political present

October 31, 2019

Sexuality, masculinity and mental health: Holden Sheppard bares all in the latest episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast

October 18, 2019

Did you know that Australian convicts helped create the San Francisco we know today? Novelist David Whish-Wilson talks about his latest book The Coves.

October 11, 2019

Novelist Steve Hawke tells the story of his latest book Out of Time to Holden Sheppard in this episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast

September 3, 2019

Nandi Chinna writes of a room, lit by fluorescent lights, where a team of scientists freeze the tissue of endangered plants for future generations

Poet Caitlin Maling talks to Holden Sheppard about her latest collection, Fish Song, and about why we should read books we hate when writing our own manuscripts

2019 Fogarty Literary Award: Michael Burrows reads from Where the Line Breaks

Emma Young talks bookshop crazies and library delivery services

Rebecca Higgie talks books, magic and play

Mel Hall on how whole foods and swimming inspired a whole manuscript

YA novelist Nanci Nott talks philosophy, experimentation and more

Belinda Hermawan talks about getting your short stories published in the USA

Crime writer Alex Dook debates whether cats are the best writing buddies

Crime writing 101 with Dave Warner (the writer and musician, not the cricketer)