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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.

The Wilderness Society recognises Fremantle Press authors Ian Mutch and Cristy Burne on annual shortlist

August 13, 2019

More and More and More by Ian Mutch and Off The Track by Cristy Burne are shortlisted for the Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The award, which is in its 25^th year, honours books promoting a love of nature in children through reading and stories.

Fremantle Press detention centre novel named one of 15 top Australian books by the Colin Roderick Literary Award judges

August 10, 2019

Avan Judd Stallard’s Spinifex & Sunflowers has been longlisted for one of Australia's oldest and most esteemed literary awards.

Fremantle Press author Kelly Canby wins a ‘hole’ lot of praise at the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards

August 9, 2019

Picture book author and illustrator Kelly Canby nabbed the top prize in the Writing for Children category at the 2018 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards on 26 July.

Madelaine Dickie will start work on a new novel after nabbing two grants that will take her to Mexico on an international writing residency

June 12, 2019

Fremantle Press author and City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award winner Madelaine Dickie is on a winning streak. She was the only Western Australian writer to receive a Copyright Agency grant this year and has secured a writing residency in Mexico.

Which Fremantle Press authors are on the shortlist for this year's WA Premier’s Book Awards?

June 12, 2019

Fremantle Press authors Kelly Canby, Amanda Curtin and Madelaine Dickie have all been shortlisted in their respective categories for one of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards 2018.

Hungerford winner Holden Sheppard scores a third writing prize for his young adult novel Invisible Boys

May 24, 2019

The Australia Council has presented Fremantle Press author Holden Sheppard with the 2019 Kathleen Mitchell Award for Australian writers under the age of 30. Holden’s novel Invisible Boys has had a dream run in the lead-up to its publication this October, first winning the 2017 Ray Koppe Residency Award and then taking out the $12,000 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award in 2018.

Judges Report – Fogarty Literary Award 2019

May 23, 2019

Read the judges report from the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award.

Fogarty Literary Award winner says her manuscript was 12 years in the making and completed just before giving birth to her first child

May 23, 2019

Como resident Rebecca Higgie won the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award for her manuscript The History of Mischief at a special ceremony at the ECU Spiegeltent on Wednesday 22 May 2019. Chosen from a field of 64 manuscripts by Western Australian writers aged 18 to 35, Higgie won a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation and secured a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.

The Fogarty Literary Award shortlist has been announced with three young Western Australian authors making it to the next round

May 14, 2019

Michael Burrows, Rebecca Higgie and Emma Young are still in the running for one of Australia’s newest and richest literary awards for young writers.