Freo Is About To Be Totally Lit

Are you ready?

Between 26 September and 10 October 2025, Fremantle will become WA’s City of Literature.

Fremantle Shipping News is pleased to be one of the sponsors of the festival.

It will be a lot of fun!

There will be so much happening. Here’s the program. Just click on the links to discover more!

• Program
• Pre-Fest Flash Fiction Workshop #1 – booked out but can join waiting list 
• Pre-Fest Flash Fiction Workshop #2 – booked out but can join waiting list 
• Pre-Fest Flash Fiction Workshop # 3 – booked out but can join waiting list 
• Festival Launch
• Writ Large  (each night of the festival).
• From Nonna with Love: Stories of Tradition and Triumph (each day of the festival and beyond)
• Two Feet and a Heart Beat – Special Offer
• Port Walks  (5 events)
• Documentary: The Joys of the Women
• Le Gioie delle Donne – Songs from Home
• The Tony Fini Story
• Alkira
• Poetry in Motion
• The Samsons in Fremantle, 1829 to 2025 – the family, the town, the business 
• Word of Mouth
• Eat Your Words
• Late Hybrids
• Writers of Conscience
• Yarning Manjaree (5 events)
• Two men walk into a bar …
• Book Launch: Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping
• A Hazardous Port
• Spicy Little Secrets
• From Page to Stage – Catalpa: Flight to Freedom
• Flash & Fizz
• To Whom it May Concern – Letters of Complaint Live!
• Scale to Tail by Fervor (2 events)
• Quantum Words Fremantle – Full Program (6 events/1 day)
• Bilingual Story Time for Little People
• Big Book Market
• Adventures in the Port City – A Totally Lit Trail
• The History Writers Salon
• Dancing with Words
• In the Corner Room
• Gothic at Strange
• Cafe Poets
• Story Wheel

Many events within the program are one day only, so it’ll be a good idea to book your faves soon.

And as to these following events, please note –

• Poetry in Motion with Caitlin Maling – there are five separate 10 min sessions within the hour 6-7pm on 28 Sept.

• Story Wheel – there are 4 x Story Wheel programs, each running one hour 10am-2pm on Fri 10 Oct, each with a different children’s author.  Each one hour program includes 5 individual 10 min sessions.

• Adventures in the Port City – Totally Lit Trail runs each day 6-10 Oct.

So, check out the program now right here on Totallylit and book soon to avoid disappointment!

 By Michael Barker, Editor, Fremantle Shipping News

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