The Fremantle Arts Centre Press was started in the mid 70s when it published the first of its books which included a poetry anthology.

The arrangement with Penguin grew to a permanent distribution deal with the publication of My Place by the indigenous author Sally Morgan in 1987.

[5] 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, Tom Hungerford, Alan Alexander, Andrew Burke, Lee Knowles, Alec Choate, Justina Williams, Peter Cowan, Julie Lewis, and James Legasse.

Long, Tracy Ryan, Richard Woldendorp, Frances Andrijich, Carolyn Polizzotto, Wayne Ashton, Anna Haebich, Philip Salom, Eoin Cameron, Kate Lamont, Kate McCaffrey, Katherine Summers,Simon Haynes, Craig Silvey and Stephen Kinnane.