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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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	Flyaway 3.54 avg rating — 3,279 ratings — published 2020 — 14 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 3.24 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2025 — 7 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 3.44 avg rating — 225 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 3.08 avg rating — 107 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 4.21 avg rating — 47 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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July 2026 — round-up of posts

Queensland Literary Awards The Lord Mayor's People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award Shortlist Supported by the Brisbane City Council HONEYEATER by KATHLEEN JENNINGS

In Australia? You can vote now

News: I’m giving a worldbuilding for fantasy writers workshop at Avid Reader in Brisbane on 15 August! And it looks like I’ll be at World Fantasy (?!)

And now here is a master list of the July 2026 blog posts (and a summary of Patreon posts).

Partially-inked design of dragons in the roots of a tree

May and June 2026 — round-up of posts How much reality can a story bear — musings on short and medium formsMarch and A Read more of this blog post »

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Kathleen Jennings wants to read The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces by Seth Harp Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Nonfiction	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 U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone, #21) by Sue Grafton	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.”
― Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway

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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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