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Kathleen Jennings

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Kathleen Jennings is an illustrator and writer based in Brisbane, Australia. As an illustrator, she has been shortlisted three times for the World Fantasy Awards, once for the Hugos, and once for the Locus Awards, as well as winning a number of Ditmars. As a writer, she has won two Ditmars and been shortlisted for the Eugie Foster Memorial Award and for several Aurealis Awards.

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August and September 2026 — round-up of posts

Bookclub around a table, with cats: two illustrations, one in colour and one blue-and-white

Some news:

I’m chairing Chairing the Myth & Magic panel (Lev Grossman + Charlie Jane Anders + John Morrissey + Cameron Sullivan), at the Brisbane Writers Festival this Sunday 11 October.I’m giving a silhouette illustration workshop at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco on Saturday 17 October.I’ll be at the World Fantasy Convention in Oakland 22-25 October.I’ll be a Katherine Susan Read more of this blog post »
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“A civilised, bone-china soul knows, as a bird does, that a heavy-footed, shouting man is a thing to be fled.”
― Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway

“Strange, what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories.”
― Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway

“I tried to be anxious, but the earth and the grass and the evening breeze surrounded me, as if I had been set into a socket of the world for which I’d been designed.”
― Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway

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