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City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award winner Madelaine Dickie is in the running for the 2018 Dobbie Literary Award for her novel Troppo. Worth $5,000, the award, which is a part of the Nita B Kibble Literary Awards, recognises a first published work by an Australian woman writer.
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Armelle Davies joined Fremantle Press as an editor in 2018, as part of a three-year position supported by the Minderoo Foundation. She previously completed an internship at Fremantle Press in 2017, and has two degrees in international relations and a BA in Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Publishing, all from Curtin University. We asked her to share more about her background and what she’s working on at Fremantle Press.
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Back by popular demand, Hellie Turner’s adaptation of Dianne Wolfer’s award-winning books comes to regional stages this April. The Lighthouse Girl enjoyed a sold-out premiere season. Black Swan State Theatre Company is now taking this unique Anzac story on the road to regional Western Australia.
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Chris Ferreira, author of A Place in the Country, will be sharing his homegrown food secrets in a special Gourmet Food Theatre event on Thursday 10 May at Perth City Farm, East Perth, at 6pm.
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Chris Owen is heading to Adelaide Zoo on Sunday 15 April to read his books Pandamonia and My Superhero aloud at United Way South Australia’s annual Children’s Zoo Day. A thousand children and their families are expected to attend the event as Owen shares his books with audiences at the zoo.
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Dianne Wolfer will launch her third book in the Light series, In the Lamplight, at Carlyles Function Centre in the National Anzac Centre precinct in Albany at 5.30 pm Monday 9 April.
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Award-winning author Susan Midalia will launch her debut novel, The Art of Persuasion, at the Centre for Stories in Northbridge at 6 pm on Tuesday 10 April.
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Goldie Goldbloom’s tale of artist Gwendolen Mary John, titled Gwen, has been longlisted for the prestigious ALS Gold Medal. The medal is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year.
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During the busiest week of the year for WA’s literary community, the Perth edition of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) seminar ‘Between the Covers, Behind the Counter’ attracted some more than 20 participants from the worlds of bookselling, publishing and writing. Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller reports.
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Looking Up by Sally Murphy and Drawn Onward by Meg McKinlay and Andrew Frazer have been honoured as notable books in the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year Awards 2018.
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