Picture book launch in Singapore

What do pandas and skeletons have in common? Both feature in new picture books by Western Australian illustrators! Join Kyle Hughes-odgers and Chris Nixon for the launch of Pandamonia and Can a Skeleton Have an X-ray?

CEO Says

We’re delighted to report that recognition for Fremantle Press books has been strong this month, with four titles making the award lists (as modelled here by Children's Publisher Cate Sutherland).

Podcast: a chapter in Brigid Lowry's life

What do you do when you start talking to yourself on the bus? If you’re Brigid Lowry, you change tack and write a book about what it means to be an ageing woman in the 21st century.

Sanderson launches forgotten history of first female Labor parliamentarian

Amber-Jade Sanderson, MLC, will launch The Magnificent Life of Miss May Holman by Lekkie Hopkins at the Constitutional Centre on Friday 27 May 2016. May Holman made history in 1925 when, at age thirty-one, she became Australia’s first Labor female parliamentarian, holding the seat of Forrest until her untimely death on the eve of the 1939 elections.

Robert Drewe returns for Heritage Festival

Robert Drewe will be giving the keynote address at the City of Fremantle's 2016 Heritage Festival. In this special sunset launch of the Fremantle Heritage Festival, Robert will demonstrate how truth, myth and story can sometimes make for the best of histories.

Opportunity for aspiring writers to catch their big break

Curtin University and Fremantle Press are giving emerging writers the opportunity to pitch their ideas to publishers and writing professionals at a free event in Margaret River on Saturday 4 June.

2016 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award – entries now closed.

Purple Impressions by Rosemary Stevens

Purple Prose contributor Rosemary Stevens has worked in London for a publisher and literary agent and in Asia as a travel writer. She currently teaches creative and professional writing at Curtin University and was assistant editor for Griffith Review's 2015 summer issue 47:Looking West, focusing on Western Australia.

Bella in the running for an Aurealis Award

Bella and the Wandering House by Meg McKinlay is a finalist in the Children’s fiction category of the 2015 Aurealis Awards. Picked from a field of some 750 entries across 15 categories, McKinlay’s book for junior readers is competing against her other 2015 release: A Single Stone.

Deb Fitzpatrick read-a-long