Fremantle Press appoints new designer

Allyson (Ally) Crimp started on the Fremantle Press design desk this month. She replaces Tracey Gibbs who will continue to work as a freelance art director and illustrator for Fremantle Press while running her own design company.

Tracy Ryan shortlisted for ABR Poetry Prize

Fremantle Press poet Tracy Ryan is on the shortlist for the 2009 ABR Poetry Prize alongside Rose Lucas, Kathryn Lomer, Lisa Gorton, Angela Malone and Judith Beveridge.

INTERVIEW: Author Peter Docker discusses Someone Else’s Country and his Mickelberg play

I was born into a community whose preferred method of living with Aboriginal people was apartheid.

Alice Nelson shortlisted for 2009 Barbara Jefferis Award

The Last Sky by Alice Nelson is one of six books on this year’s short list for the Barbara Jefferis Award.

Simon Haynes releases Hal Spacejock online for Read and eBook Week

The complete Hal Spacejock series is now available online for less than twenty Australian dollars.

Fremantle Press audio books licensed to the Association for the Blind of WA

The Association for the Blind of WA will make its first commercial foray into audio book publication using Fremantle Press books.

INTERVIEW: Writer John Rainford discusses Consuming Pleasures his history of drug consumption

Tell us about Consuming Pleasures
Consuming Pleasures is a book about the history and politics of drug use. The broader political issue that it investigates is the rationale for drug prohibition.

Celebrating a Life in Song, 10 Years On …

Mojo’s Bar in Fremantle will commemorate the ten-year anniversary of Triffids frontman David McComb’s passing at a musical tribute night this Thursday 5 February.

INTERVIEW: Poet Barbara Temperton

Q&A with Barbara Temperton, poet and author of Southern Edge

When did you start writing?
Around the age of six, when I finally got hand, pen and paper coordinated: I stole loose-leaf paper from the public toilets at the Port Hedland swimming pool, needle and thread from my mother’s sewing box, and took refuge in the cubby house in our back yard to make my “books”.

Natasha Lester wins 2008 T.A.G. Hungerford Award

Culture and the Arts Minister John Day presented Natasha Lester with the 2008 T.A.G. Hungerford Award for Fiction at a ceremony in Perth last night.