Fremantle Press is an independent publisher in Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

. Fremantle Press was established by the Fremantle Arts Centre

Fremantle Arts Centre

Fremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation, offering a program of exhibitions, residencies, art courses and music in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle, Western Australia....

in 1976. It focuses on publishing Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

n writers and writing.

As of March 2007 Fremantle Arts Centre Press is known as Fremantle Press.

It publishes works of fiction, literary prose and poetry, social history

Social history

Social history, often called the new social history, is a branch of History that includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in history departments...

, autobiography

Autobiography

An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...

, biography, trade books in areas such as food and photography, children's picture books and fiction for young readers.

Authors

In the late 1970s and early 1980s the press had a dedicated series edited by William Grono called West Coast Writing - of books of short stories and poetry. It included works by Nicholas Hasluck

Nicholas Hasluck

The Honourable Justice Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM is an Australian novelist, poet and short story writer, and judge. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife, Sally-Anne, and has two children.-Early life:...

, Tom Hungerford

Tom Hungerford

Thomas Arthur Guy Hungerford, AM , popularly known as T. A. G. Hungerford, was an Australian writer, noted for his World War II novel The Ridge and the River, and his short stories that chronicle growing up in South Perth, Western Australia during the Great Depression.-Early life:Hungerford was...

, Alan Alexander, Andrew Burke

Andrew Burke (poet)

Andrew Burke is a contemporary Australian writer.His poetry has been included in Western Australian and Australian anthologies...

, Lee Knowles, Alec Choate, Justina Williams, Peter Cowan, Julie Lewis, and James Legasse.

Subsequent published authors include A. B. Facey, Sally Morgan

Sally Morgan (artist)

Sally Jane Morgan is an Australian Aboriginal author, dramatist, and artist. Morgan's works are on display in numerous private and public collections in both Australia and around the world.-Early life:...

, Elizabeth Jolley

Elizabeth Jolley

Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an English-born writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels , four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving...

, Tim Winton

Tim Winton

Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....

, Liz Byrski

Liz Byrski

Elizabeth Ann Byrski is an Australian writer and journalist.-Biography:After graduating from Notre Dame Convent in Lingfield, Surrey, in 1960, Byrski furthered her education at the Crawley College of Further Education and the Wall Hall College of Education . Her first job was as a secretary at a...

, Julia Lawrinson, Kim Scott

Kim Scott

Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of West Australian Noongar people.- Biography :...

, John Kinsella, Tracy Ryan

Tracy Ryan

Tracy Ryan is an Australian poet and novelist. She has also worked as an editor, publisher, translator, and academic.-Life:Tracy Ryan was born in Western Australia, where she grew up as part of a large family...

, Richard Woldendorp

Richard Woldendorp

Richard Leo Woldendorp is an Australian photographer.Born in Utrecht, Netherlands, he migrated to Australia in 1950. He began photographing in 1956, initially on various projects in Indonesia. He became a professional photographer in 1961 after winning two prizes in the Craven-A national...

, Frances Andrijich, Carolyn Polizzotto, Wayne Ashton, Anna Haebich, Philip Salom

Philip Salom

Philip Salom is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist.-Biography:Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction in the South West region of Western Australia. Salom had an isolated childhood before boarding at Bunbury during his high school years...

, Eoin Cameron

Eoin Cameron

Eoin Harrap Cameron is a popular radio personality in Perth, Western Australia. He currently works the ABC's Perth local station 720 ABC Perth breakfast show, regularly receiving top ratings for the most popular breakfast radio show....

, Kate Lamont

Kate Lamont

Kate Lamont is a cook and author.Lamont has hospitality interest in the Swan Valley, Margaret River and a bottle shop and bar in Cottesloe, Western Australia.-Government Committees:...

, Kate McCaffrey, Simon Haynes

Simon Haynes

Simon Haynes is an Australian writer of speculative fiction novels and short stories.-Biography:Haynes was born in the United Kingdom and raised in the south of Spain. In 1983 he emigrated to Australia with his family. Haynes also writes computer software between writing fiction and is a founding...

, Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey is an Australian novelist and musician.Silvey grew up on an orchard at Dwellingup in the south-west of Western Australia. He currently lives in Fremantle.-Literary career:...

and Stephen Kinnane.