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Fremantle Press poets fly in for two short appearances at Planet Books and the ASAL conference

June 13, 2019

Join award-winning authors Caitlin Maling and Nandi Chinna for two big nights as they celebrate the release of their new poetry collections Fish Song and The Future Keepers.

Nandi Chinna writes of a room, lit by fluorescent lights, where a team of scientists freeze the tissue of endangered plants for future generations

June 12, 2019

From the death of old-growth trees at Beeliar Wetlands to securing the seeds of potential trees at Kings Park, her work holds both anticipatory grief and hope for the future. In this episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast, Nandi speaks to Holden Sheppard about her very special brand of peripatetic creativity, which has led to her latest poetry collection, The Future Keepers.

Poet Caitlin Maling talks to Holden Sheppard about her latest collection, Fish Song, and about why we should read books we hate when writing our own manuscripts

June 12, 2019

In this episode of the Fremantle Press podcast, poet Caitlin Maling chats to Holden Sheppard about her new collection, Fish Song, which celebrates the beautiful coastline of Western Australia and the people and creatures that live on it.

Fremantle Press poet Caitlin Maling receives a $50,000 Marten Bequest scholarship

June 14, 2017

Fremantle Press congratulates poet Caitlin Maling on receiving a 2017 Marten Bequest scholarship. Caitlin has been awarded $50,000 to further her eco-critical practice through residencies and research in Australia and in Italy.

An extract from The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry

March 13, 2017

We asked editors Tracy Ryan and John Kinsella to pick us a poem each from The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry. Here's what they chose.

WA poet on gold medal longlist

February 21, 2017

Dennis Haskell’s poetry collection Ahead of Us has been longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. The ALS Gold Medal is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year. Haskell said it was a bit unusual for a poetry book to get listed.

Maling receives OzCo grant

January 12, 2017

Caitlin Maling is one of sixteen Australian writers awarded grant money of up to $50,000 to undertake a new arts project.

Premier’s shortlist announced

July 6, 2016

Fremantle Press authors Ray Glickman, Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Sally Morgan and Caitlin Maling have each been shortlisted for a 2016 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award from a national field of 792 entrants across nine categories.

Haskell raises money for Cancer Council WA

February 1, 2016

Poet Dennis Haskell is set to launch his eighth and most personal collection of poetry to date, Ahead of Us. Written in memory of his late wife, Rhonda, the book will raise much needed funds for the Cancer Council WA.

Maling snags Dorothy Hewett Fellowship

November 26, 2015

Caitlin Maling has won the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship for her forthcoming poetry collection Us Girls. The fellowship is awarded for poetry of outstanding quality, in memory of Dorothy Hewett – a poet also published by Fremantle Press.