The life of beloved children’s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller to turn a life of intense headlines into a wild, marvellous tale. In the penultimate episode, memoirist Julia Lawrinson discusses the notion of rootlessness by taking a look at her peripatetic childhood […]
A Leaf Called Greaf, illustrated and designed by Kelly Canby, and I Am the Mau, designed by Rebecca Mills, have been shortlisted for the Best Published Book Cover Design Award in the Whitsundays Literary Heart Awards. Overall, just four submissions were selected for the shortlist and are in the running for the first prize of $1,500 and $500 […]
Nedingar: Ancestors by Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm has been recognised for a third time in this year’s awards season. The dual language picture book has already been shortlisted for an Environment Award by the Wilderness Society and has been made a CBCA Notable Book. Now it is in the running for Speech Pathology Australia’s Book […]
Award-winning Josh Kemp Sheds Light on Australian Gothic at Emerging Writers Festival 2024 Josh Kemp’s debut novel, Banjawarn, won the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award, the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Best Emerging Writer. His sophomore novel, Jasper Cliff, was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary […]
Publishing industry game changers Michael Earp and Seth Malacari will appear at the Emerging Writers Festival, which takes place at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne this September. The pair have each been responsible for discovering and nurturing new LGBTQIA+ talent and pushing the boundaries of storytelling. Seth Malacari, co-publisher, editor and curator of the queer […]
Poet Nandi Chinna and Nyikina Elder Professor Anne Poelina will appear at a poetry reading event at Mundaring Arts Centre on Saturday 14 September, and will be reading from their new poetry collaboration Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant. Nandi says every sentient being, like the Martuwarra River at the centre of the poetry collection, has something to […]
City of Fremantle Hungerford Award winner Molly Schmidt is in the running for The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize for her coming-of age-novel Salt River Road. Now in its tenth year, and the only award run by an independent Melbourne bookshop, the Readings Prize supports new and outstanding Australian voices with the winners receiving a $5,000 […]
Australia’s most coveted prize for children’s literature has gone to Fremantle Press author Kelly Canby for her 2023 picture book Timeless. The CBCA Picture Book of the Year rewards outstanding books of the genre in which the creators achieve both artistic and literary unity. Children’s publisher at Fremantle Press, Cate Sutherland, said every one of Kelly’s […]
Artists Kelly Canby, Rebecca Mills and Nada Backovic have all been honoured in the inaugural Whitsundays Literary Heart Awards. Their book cover designs for A Leaf Called Greaf (Kelly Canby), Courage Be My Friend (Rebecca Mills), I am the Mau (Rebecca Mills), and The Skeleton House (Nada Backovic) are longlisted for the Best Published Book […]
When Robert Edeson needs facts, he often makes them up. Edeson says, ‘In my view, that’s the sublime (and subversive) prerogative of a fiction writer. It is also strangely liberating after an obediently truthful life in science.’
Bring your children to Subiaco Library on the morning of Saturday 14 September at 10.00 am for a morning filled with live readings, sensory activities and crafting with author Renae Hayward and illustrator Rebecca Mills as we launch Say Hello.
Three Fremantle Press crime writers are set to reveal brand new novels at this September’s BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, taking place at the State Library of New South Wales. BAD audiences will be the first to get a taste of Cutler by David Whish-Wilson, Prize Catch by Alan Carter and When it Rains by […]
With assistance from Creative Australia, Casey Mulder has joined Fremantle Press as an editor for the next six months. Casey will provide editorial support to deliver a robust and diverse publishing program in acknowledgment of Fremantle Press’s forthcoming 50th anniversary in 2026. The program will include significant new works celebrating the diverse voices and stories of […]
Fremantle Press, The Literature Centre and the Fogarty Foundation are proud to launch two new Australian gothic novels – A Wreck of Seabirds by Karleah Olson and Jasper Cliff by Josh Kemp. Both writers were shortlisted for the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award and both have extensively studied the Australian gothic tradition. A Wreck of Seabirds is a brooding piece […]
About the episode The life of beloved children’s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller to turn a life of intense headlines into a wild, marvellous tale. In the fourth episode of this six-part series, Julia returns to her hometown in the south-eastern suburbs […]
Ten Western Australian writers are longlisted and in the running for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Judged anonymously, the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award is a biennial prize awarded to an unpublished manuscript by a Western Australian author for a work of fiction, narrative non-fiction or young adult fiction. The winner receives a cash prize […]
Meet Rebecca Higgie, winner of the 2019 Fogarty Literary Award for her debut novel The History of Mischief, as she hosts an online workshop to help you hone the craft of writing.
The Ghost of Gracie Flynn author Joanna Morrison will host an immersive writing workshop at AH Bracks Library + Creative Space on Sunday 8 September. She will be working with you to explore form and structure, stakes, how characterisation and curiosity relate to narrative tension, what to look for when editing your own work, and […]
The Players by Deborah Pike takes us into the lives of a group of university students as they fall in and out of friendship and love. In this dramatic coming-of-age story, bonds formed during an intense summer of rehearsals will be tested across decades. The book and author will feature on the Libby Book Club on 17 September […]
Fremantle Press creator Angela Savage; Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist, is one of many writers to have benefited from the Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards for Australian women’s best short crime and mystery stories. Now in its 31st year the prize pool has increased to a record $13,400 with Fremantle Press the co-sponsor of […]
Get the classroom thinking creatively, and help Quokka find a friend, with this free teaching activity. Working together or solo, kids can brainstorm the animals that a quokka would encounter on the beach and draw a friend for them.
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Using the illustrations of bush animals, get the classroom colouring in and writing the Noongar word for each animal in the blank space. Each of the animals can be found in the dual-language Noongar and English picture book, Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons by Ebony Froome and Leanne Zilm.
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Say Hello to storytime, and teach the kids the fun of rhyme! This free video features Renae Hayward, author of Say Hello, who brings the joy of reading aloud to the screen. Say Hello can be read, sung or acted out and features simple, high-contrast illustrations with many recognisable words. Plus, there are lots of chances for babies to […]
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