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HM Waugh's The Lost Stone of SkyCity is in the running for an Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction

March 27, 2020

The Lost Stone of SkyCity has been shortlisted in the 2019 Aurealis Awards for speculative fiction. The awards, which accept novels, novellas, anthologies, graphic novels and short stories, are given for works of outstanding literary merit and originality that make a significant contribution to the genre of speculative fiction.

Fremantle Press writer Norman Jorgensen smuggled into the Hall of Fame for fortieth anniversary year

March 16, 2020

Norman Jorgensen and Andy Griffiths have taken their places alongside Roald Dahl, Brian Jacques, Victor Kelleher, Paul Jennings, Duncan Ball and John Marsden in the West Australian Young Readers Book Awards (WAYRBA) Hall of Fame. Now in its fortieth year, the WAYRBA Hall of Fame is reserved for those authors who have won the award four times or more.

Three Fremantle Press titles make the CBCA Notables List in record breaking year of entries

March 16, 2020

Kelly Canby’s Rodney, Julia Lawrinson’s Maddie in the Middle and Holden Sheppard’s Invisible Boys have all been made Notable books in their respective categories in the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.

Wombat, Mudlark and Other Stories shortlisted for the Readings Children's Book Prize

March 16, 2020

A huge congratulations to Helen Milroy, author of Wombat, Mudlark and Other Stories, for being among the six books shortlisted for the Readings Children's Book Prize worth $3,000.

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 Western Australia’s longest running and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript offers a cash prize of $15,000 from the City of Fremantle and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.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

New biographies of Wayne Bergmann, Peter Matthiessen, Ruth Park and Eric Dark are one step closer to reality as would-be authors make the Hazel Rowley Fellowship shortlist

January 21, 2020

Fremantle Press author Madelaine Dickie is one of nine Australian writers shortlisted for the 2020 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship worth $15,000.

Holden Sheppard stays on a roll as his debut YA novel Invisible Boys makes the shortlist for a fourth major prize

December 2, 2019

Geraldton-born Western Australian writer Holden Sheppard is one of three writers shortlisted for the Prize for Writing for Young Adults in the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Holden is in the running to receive a $25,000 prize, as well as the overall Victorian Prize for Literature worth an additional $100,000, the single most valuable literary award in the country.

Fremantle Press Champion of Literature and education philanthropist Annie Fogarty is the proud recipient of the 2020 WA Australian of the Year Award

November 30, 2019

Our very own Champion of Literature and the force behind the Fogarty Literary Award, Annie Fogarty, has been named the 2020 WA Australian of the Year for her work through the Fogarty Foundation. Every year, the Australian of the Year Awards celebrate the achievements and contributions of eminent Australians who are positive role models in our community.

Biography of Kimberley leader Wayne Bergmann gets a leg-up from the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund

November 30, 2019

Madelaine Dickie will be one of 11 authors to represent Australian literature on five different continents thanks to Writers Victoria and the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. While many recipients will head overseas, Madelaine will use the money to research her proposed manuscript ‘Gas Days or the Cost of Doing Good: A Biography of Wayne Bergmann’ in Broome.