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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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Average rating: 3.81 · 16,055 ratings · 3,481 reviews · 69 distinct works • Similar authors

	Flyaway 3.54 avg rating — 3,236 ratings — published 2020 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings (Goodreads Author), Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (consultant_editor) 3.25 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie 3.45 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale 3.10 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heart of Owl Abbas 3.30 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kindling: Stories 4.24 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Connorville 3.38 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Undine Love 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travelogues: Vignettes from Trains in Motion 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flight into the Hay (Emma Armstrong Series Book 1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rapunzel, in silhouette

Hand holding a cut-paper silhouette of the story of Rapunzel following a braid emerging in a spiral from a tower

Last year, finally, after years of intending to, I entered the Folio Society Book Illustration Award with a hand-cut silhouette illustration of the fairy tale of Rapunzel. And as much of it as would fit!

Here is a timelapse of my first sketches thinking through the image:

Then I refined the chosen sketch, working out format and all the little connectors. (I’ve posted about that part of the proc

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Kathleen Jennings has read Martha In Paris by Margery Sharp	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Kathleen Jennings has read Sweet and Low (John Putnam Thatcher, #15) by Emma Lathen	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Kathleen Jennings has read The Case Of The Blind Barber (Dr. Gideon Fell, #4) by John Dickson Carr	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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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

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“Strange, what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories.”
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“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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