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The Fremantle Press Podcast Fremantle Press
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Perhaps you're a lover of literature or just love book chat of any kind; perhaps you're an aspiring author or illustrator; perhaps you're someone who hopes one day to work in publishing. If you fit any of these descriptions, this is one podcast you may want to subscribe to. We share our love of books and publishing throughout the year, with podcast episodes based on our book How to Be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia by Georgia Richter and Deborah Hunn and extended interviews with many of our authors to find out more about their books, their lives and their writing habits. Stay tuned by subscribing and stay in touch @FremantlePress.
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How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast episode 1: Author Julia Lawrinson traces her family lineage to reveal generational truths about divorce
About the show The life of beloved children’s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller to turn a life of intense headlines into a wild, marvellous tale. In the first episode of this 6-episode series, Julia immerses herself in the history of her own […]
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Meet Katherine Allum whose manuscript The Skeleton House is a work of literary fiction characterised by a controlled delivery and a sense of suffocating foreboding
What happens when two writers of literary fiction get together for a chat? Find out in the latest Fremantle Press podcast as 2021 Fogarty Literary Award winner Brooke Dunnell interviews shortlisted writer Katherine Allum. Katherine has a one in six chance of winning $20,000 and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and she’ll find out […]
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Patrick Marlborough discusses Nock Loose on the Fremantle Press podcast
Patrick Marlborough has been published in many national and international publications, and their novel, A Horse Held at Gunpoint, was shortlisted in the 2021 Fogarty Literary Award. Now they are in the running for the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award for Nock Loose. In their novel, a retired Olympic archer and former stuntwoman (whose character was […]
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Prema Arasu discusses The Anatomy of Witchcraft on the Fremantle Press podcast
Prema Arasu has a one in six chance of winning $20,000 and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. Their manuscript, The Anatomy of Witchcraft, is in the running for the prestigious 2023 Fogarty Literary Award for Western Australian writers aged 18 to 35. The Anatomy of Witchcraft is a captivating young adult novel blending themes […]
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History repeats itself for writer Emily Paull who has been shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award
In this special podcast episode, Emily Paull tells Brooke Dunnell how perseverance and dedication to her craft secured her a place on the Fogarty Literary Award shortlist with a novel she’s been working on for 15 years. The Dreamers is a novel which, after many rewrites, may find itself on the way to publication. Georgia […]
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Introducing Karleah Olson whose manuscript, A Wreck of Seabirds, has secured her a place on the Fogarty Literary Award shortlist
Karleah Olson has a one in six chance of winning $20,000 and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. Her manuscript, A Wreck of Seabirds, is in the running for the prestigious 2023 Fogarty Literary Award for Western Australian writers aged 18 to 35. It’s a gothic YA novel that Georgia Richter describes as a ‘beautiful […]