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Grab your friends and get along to some of the greatest conversations you’ll hear this year as Fremantle Press authors appear at the Perth Festival Literature and Ideas Weekend

February 12, 2020

Find out when and where you can see your favourite Fremantle Press authors at the Perth Festival Literature and Ideas Weekend. Click the event title to book your tickets.

New podcast episode: poet Bron Bateman on writing, memory and the female body

February 12, 2020

Bron Bateman says she makes sense of the world through writing. She is an observer of her own life, absorbing every experience with all senses so she can articulate it in poetry. She’s also the ideal interviewee. She wants to answer every question put to her, no matter how difficult, because, she says, it’s only by doing this that we can truly reach each other as writers and as humans. In this podcast, we talk to Bron about her writing process in relation to her new poetry collection, Of Memory and Furniture.

CEO Jane Fraser shares where we can see an old favourite in an ingenious new format plus new news about our Hungerford alumni

February 11, 2020

Welcome to 2020. Doesn’t Christmas feel like a lifetime ago?

Fremantle Press bids farewell to editor and manuscript assessor Wendy Jenkins, who retires after four decades of service to the Western Australian literary community

February 11, 2020

At the end of 2019, with her customary desire to avoid the fanfare she so richly deserves, Fremantle Press editor and manuscript assessor Wendy Jenkins left the building. It is an understatement to say this is the end of an era: Wendy began work with the Press, formerly known as Fremantle Arts Centre Press, just a few years after it published its first title in 1976.

Fremantle Press marketing team says goodbye to Jen and hello to Chloe, the new Marketing and Communications Coordinator

February 10, 2020

Today, the Fremantle Press marketing department welcomes new team member Chloe Walton to the role of Marketing and Communications Coordinator. Chloe has a degree in marketing and public relations from Curtin University and has worked as a marketer and social media coordinator in the retail sector for over four years.

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: learn how to master the art of writing and turn your dream into a career with award-winning novelist Craig Silvey

January 30, 2020

Craig Silvey’s debut novel, Rhubarb, is a masterclass in writing from an author who was named in the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists list in 2005 and again in 2010 for his novel Jasper Jones.

VALE W.J. Peasley 1927–2020

January 24, 2020

Fremantle Press extends its deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Dr William John Peasley, who passed away on 2 January, just a couple of weeks short of turning 93.

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.

Holden Sheppard's YA novel Invisible Boys is the first book of the new Fremantle Book Club

January 21, 2020

Holden Sheppard’s multi-award-winning young adult novel Invisible Boys is the first book on the bill for the Fremantle Book Club, which kicked off this month.