‘Ten Tiny Things’ wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award
Ten Tiny Things by Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers (Fremantle Press) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the...
Interview with Jacqueline Wright on ‘Red Dirt Talking’
In 2010 Jacqueline Wright won the TAG Hungerford Award for most promising unpublished manuscript, and Red Dirt Talking (Fremantle Press, October) is the result. The novel is a contemporary drama...
To the Highlands (Jon Doust, Fremantle Press)
What is a man and how does a boy become one? Jack Muir was searching for the answers to these questions in Boy on a Wire, the first book in...
‘The Last Viking’ wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award
The Last Viking by Norman Jorgensen and James Foley (Fremantle Press) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the...
In Brief
CAL celebrates 20,000 membersCopyright Agency Limited (CAL) has celebrated a new membership record this week, with 20,000 authors, publishers, photographers and visual artists now members of the organisation. This milestone...
Get Reading! 2011: year-round touring program begins this month; close to 1000 booksellers and libraries registered
The Get Reading! year-long touring program will begin this month, ahead of preparations for this year's Get Reading! campaign which will run between 1 and 30 September. The first authors...
In brief
New Collins store for SA Collins Booksellers has announced that a new Collins bookstore will open in the Adelaide suburb of Kilkenny this month. The store will be located in...
Wright wins 2010 T.A.G. Hungerford Award
Broome-based author Jacqueline Wright has been announced as the winner of the 2010 T.A.G. Hungerford Award. Wright received the award, which includes a $12,000 cash prize and a publishing contract...
Fremantle Press launches ebook site
Fremantle Press has launched an ebook section on its website.The publisher, which has made ebooks available for some time through ebooks.com, added a new section to its website at www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/ebooks...
Scribe launches e-list, Harlequin, New Holland, Fremantle build ebook offering
Scribe Publishing has announced the launch of its ebooks list. The publisher has launched its list with new-release titles I Say Tomato (Katie Wall), The Authenticity Hoax (Andrew Potter) and...
T.A.G. Hungerford Award prize money doubled
The prize money for this year's T.A.G. Hungerford Award has doubled to $12,000, following a decision by writingWA to match New Edition Bookshop's $6000 investment in the award. The award...
‘Jasper Jones’ wins 2009 Indie award
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (A&U) is the overall winner of the second annual Indie Book of the Year. Silvey, whose book won the fiction category of the 2009 award, wins...
Archibald CEO at Fremantle Press
Jenny Archibald has taken on the role of CEO Fremantle Press permanently, having been appointed in October 2008. Formerly deputy chair of the press, Archibald comes from a small and...
TAG Hungerford Award winner announced
Natasha Lester was presented the TAG Hungerford Award for fiction in Perth last week for her manuscript What is Left Over, After. Lester, who has had poetry and short fiction...
Richter appointed publisher at Fremantle Press; Coffey departs
Fremantle Press has announced the appointment of Georgia Richter to the position of publisher, with responsibility for the adult fiction and poetry lists. ‘Georgia is well-known in the literary community in Western Australia,...
Fremantle Press makes e-book available free online
In an unusual move for an Australian publisher Fremantle Press has announced it will make e-book copies of Hal Spacejock 1 available free online from June. The e-book giveaway coincides...
FACP appoints new CEO, changes name to Fremantle Press
The Fremantle Arts Centre Press (FACP) has announced the appointment of Mary-Anne Paton as CEO, effective 9 July, as well as its new trading name, Fremantle Press. Paton, who has...