WA author shortlisted (twice) for Book of the Year
Albany-based author Dianne Wolfer was shortlisted twice today for the 2014 Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year Awards.
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Fremantle Press novelist longlisted for a Miles Franklin
Fremantle Press author Tracy Farr is celebrating today after her debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt was longlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award.
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New ebook captures the history behind an iconic WA moment
When Joy and Mike Lefroy were writing their picture book The Catalpa Escape, they researched at length the famous 1876 Fremantle Prison escape to ensure their story was historically accurate.
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Clive's Corner
The latest news from the Fremantle Press Sales, Rights and Distribution Manager, Clive Newman.
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Tim Winton’s The Deep goes east
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is touring the Eastern States with an adaptation of Tim Winton’s classic children’s book The Deep. From March 28 to May 23, the show will be stopping at nineteen different locations across Victoria, Tasmania, News South Wales and Queensland.
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Call for entries!
WritingWA is now accepting manuscripts for the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award.
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Thank you AIM WA
For the past four years we have received generous support from AIM WA in the form of scholarships for staff to attend professional development courses at the institute. These kinds of courses would normally be out of the budget reach of most not-for-profit organisation such as ours. This year we received a $2000 grant which will be put towards management and software skills development.
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Darcy Moon and Spencer Gray head stateside
Massachusetts-based publisher Star Bright Books has bought the US rights to two Fremantle Press junior reads this week: The Amazing Spencer Gray by Deb Fitzpatrick and Darcy Moon and the Deep-Fried Frogs by Catherine Carvell.
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Clive's Corner
The latest news from the Fremantle Press Sales, Rights and Distribution Manager, Clive Newman.
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Get warmer with Alan Carter
Alan Carter’s first Cato Kwong novel Prime Cut won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association of UK’s Debut Dagger. His new novel Getting Warmer will make you think twice before venturing out on a dark night in Fremantle.
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