The City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

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Get your manuscripts ready to be in with a chance of winning a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a staggering $15,000 cash prize in the thirtieth anniversary of the Hungerford Award

February 2, 2020

Submissions for the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award are open. Western Australia’s longest running and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript offers a cash prize of $15,000 from the City of Fremantle and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.

Read this and be smarter: Hungerford Award winning author Holden Sheppard writes about the difficulties of growing up gay in country-town Australia in his honest and heartbreaking novel Invisible Boys

January 23, 2020

Holden Sheppard won multiple awards for his manuscript Invisible Boys even before it was published, including the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award in 2018.

Read this and be smarter: be awed by country and get drawn into a web of competing interests in regional northern Australia in Madelaine Dickie’s thrilling novel Red Can Origami.

January 9, 2020

From the rodeos and fishing holes of northern Australia to the dazzling streets of night-time Tokyo, Red Can Origami is a gripping tale of love, loss, land and identity.

New judges announced for the 30-year anniversary of the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

November 5, 2019

Almost three decades ago, Brenda Walker was an aspiring writer who became the very first winner of the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Now this multi-award-winning writer and Emeritus Professor, who has recently been chair of the judging panel for the Stella Prize, is a member of the judging panel for the Award’s thirtieth anniversary year. Also new is Sisonke Msimang, South African writer and oral storyteller, while Richard Rossiter – writer, editor and seasoned judge of the Hungerford Award – and our own Fremantle Press publisher, Georgia Richter, will return for another round.

Hungerford winner Holden Sheppard's eight-week Invisible Boys tour rolls into Brisbane and the South West region before returning to Perth for his final gigs before Christmas

November 5, 2019

City of Fremantle Hungerford Award winner Holden Sheppard has barely had time to style his mohawk since Invisible Boys went on sale on 1 October.

Fremantle Press CEO Jane Fraser announces new contracts for a Hungerford shortlister and authors from the Four Centres Emerging Writing Program

October 22, 2019

It seems like only yesterday we were congratulating Holden Sheppard for winning the 2018 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Now we’ve already had to reprint his wonderful debut novel Invisible Boys after stock flew off the shelves in the first week of release.

Meat the real star of the Fremantle Press Booktoberfest: The Fremantle Press Commemorative Sausage specially made in Freo and available for one night only

October 17, 2019

Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller has been dreaming of a Fremantle Press Commemorative Sausage ever since the company’s fortieth anniversary party in 2016. Now a local butcher has made her dream come true.

Delys Bird steps down as judge of the T.A.G. Hungerford Award after 15 years and looks back on her time judging one of Western Australia's top writing prizes

September 10, 2019

I first became a judge of the T.A.G. Hungerford Award in 2004, and have remained on the judging panel since.

Gay writing community supports award-winning author Holden Sheppard as he tours Melbourne and Sydney with debut novel

September 6, 2019

Nigel Featherstone, Benjamin Law and Michael Earp will appear alongside Western Australian writer Holden Sheppard as he celebrates the launch of his first novel for young adults, Invisible Boys.

Guten tag! Join me, Holden Sheppard, at the Fremantle Press Great Big Booktoberfest Read for a night of books, brass, bratwurst and beer

August 14, 2019

This is your invitation to the launch of my City of Fremantle Hungerford Award winning book, Invisible Boys, where I’ll be joined by fellow writers and artists from the Fremantle Press family.