Isabella Colton shares her thoughts on the Great Big Book Club's contemporary fiction panel featuring Susan Midalia and Emma Young

Introducing Kirsty Horton, recipient of the 2021 Minderoo Editorship

Fremantle Press CEO Jane Fraser announces film deal for debut author and welcomes newbies to the team

Kirsty Horton announced as next Minderoo Editor at Fremantle Press

Emerging editor Kirsty Horton is the 2021 Minderoo Editor. The Minderoo Editorship provides funding for a position at Fremantle Press for three years. The program commenced in 2018 with the aim of fostering new Western Australian publishing talent, by helping entry-level editors develop editorial and project-management skills across all genres.

Crime historian and writer, Leigh Straw, takes a walk back along Roe Street of old and finds some interesting characters there

Events Marketing Assistant Jessica Checkland on what she learned from this year’s Great Big Book Club panel ‘Writing for the New Age and the Art of Mindfulness’

On Sunday 27 June, Fremantle Press and the City of Joondalup Libraries hosted the Great Big Book Club featuring writers Mel Hall, Natasha Lester, Brigid Lowry, Susan Midalia, Georgia Richter, Josephine Taylor and Emma Young for a Sunday morning among book-loving friends.

Does Your Story Have Legs? Creating Characters Who Connect

The Story Begins

In 2001, I was an unpublished writer with a little story idea and big dreams. On a recent car trip, I had spun a tale for my four-year-old daughter about how the house we were driving to might not be where we expected, because you know how houses get bored and wander around at night, and sometimes they might not quite make it home again?

Far away, so close: David Allan-Petale shares how travelling brought his new novel, Locust Summer, to life

Written while travelling the globe over five years, Locust Summer was shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award (2017) and was developed through a fellowship at Varuna, the National Writers’ House. In this blog post, David Allan-Petale invites you along for the journey.

It takes a village to raise a book (an ode to the Perth writing community) by novelist Mel Hall

Described as ‘thoughtful’, ‘delightfully subversive’ and ‘tenderly insightful’, The Little Boat on Trusting Lane by Mel Hall is a novel about how human connection, community and friendship have the potential to heal. In this piece, she describes how the Perth writing community helped her bring her debut novel into being.

Katie Stewart on why she populates her picture books with animal characters

One of the questions I get asked about my picture books is ‘Why are they about animals?’ The automatic response for me would be ‘Because I love animals’, but the truth is a little more complex.