Kathleen Jennings won a World Fantasy Award in 2020 for Best Artist and was a @thehugoawards.bsky.social Hugo Finalist in 2018 for Best Professional Artist! 🏆

@tanaudel.bsky.social

The cover of Kindling by Kathleen Jennings. It features a matchbox with a match coming out of it. The box has a woman's face on it.

Favourite Australian thing to do? Walk down to the Bunnings sausage sizzle on a Saturday morning.

Favourite thing in Brisbane? Houses: the oldest Queenslanders with their coloured glass windows, but also the lovely little art deco houses like early airports. And, indeed, Archerfield airport.

The cover of Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings. It's a silhouette picture with a heart in the middle and vines and birds connected to it.

Is there anything typically Australian that sneaks into your work? Places and birds and flowers — Flyaway was set in Western Queensland, and Honeyeater, while in a fictional city and suburb, is very heavily based on my area of Brisbane, its floods and trees and Queenslander houses.

The cover image of Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings, which has a girl with flowers and a bird in front of / making up her face

What’s new for you? My new Australian subtropical-suburban Gothic novel Honeyeater, about the ghosts of home and the memory of water, came out last year!

Where can we find you? tanaudel.wordpress.com; @tanaudel most other places - and I run @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social girlfleeshouse.tumblr.com

Photo of Kathleen Jennings, a woman with short brown hair. She wears a patterned blue shirt and a blue necklace. She stands in front of some trees.

Kathleen Jennings (@tanaudel.bsky.social) is an Australian writer and artist – and GoH at Swancon this year...

Where are you based? Brisbane!
Your work in brief: Gothic, Australian Gothic, fairy tales, and fairy-tale Gothic fiction and illustration.

swancon50.sf.org.au is soon!. One of committee members is Cat Sparks. From New South Wales, Cat was manager & editor of Agog! Press, publisher of Australian sf anthologies, and later editor of Cosmos Magazine. Cat is a writer & artist, awarded the Ditmar and the Aurealis for her work. catsparks.net

It's almost time to announce the 2026 Hugo Award Finalists!

Stay tuned to @laworldcon.bsky.social's feed to find out the works being honoured by this year's Worldcon members!

#HugoAwards thehugoawards.bsky.social

CSFG – The Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. Who we are The Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild (CSFG) is an association for Canberra-based creators of speculative fiction. Our goal is to support and provide development opportunities for our me...

The Canberra Speculative Fiction Group: csfg.org.au
Conflux: www.conflux.org #Brisbane2028 #IntroducingAustralianSFF

The Girlfriend Experience - Lightspeed Magazine The company man’s smile showed off his perfect teeth. Evie hated that smile; it meant he was going to kill her again. Him staring down the camera above the Manic Pixie’s door didn’t help. Even with th...

See C. Z. Tacks' story in the September issue of Lightspeed www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
#Brisbane2028 #IntroducingAustralianSFF

C.Z. Tacks — Bundanon Explore the work of C.Z. Tacks, a Bundanon resident artist whose practice bridges innovation, place and contemporary art. Learn about their projects, ideas and creative contributions.

www.bundanon.com.au/artist/c-z-t...

This morning we highlight C. Z .Tacks.
@cztacks.bsky.social is Craft and Critique facilitator for Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, program lead for Conflux and Natcon 2023, & part of the #Brisbane2028bid team. #Brisbane2028 #IntroducingAustralianSFF

Kathleen Jennings won a World Fantasy Award in 2020 for Best Artist and was a @thehugoawards.bsky.social Hugo Finalist in 2018 for Best Professional Artist! 🏆

@tanaudel.bsky.social

The cover of Kindling by Kathleen Jennings. It features a matchbox with a match coming out of it. The box has a woman's face on it.

Favourite Australian thing to do? Walk down to the Bunnings sausage sizzle on a Saturday morning.

Favourite thing in Brisbane? Houses: the oldest Queenslanders with their coloured glass windows, but also the lovely little art deco houses like early airports. And, indeed, Archerfield airport.

The cover of Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings. It's a silhouette picture with a heart in the middle and vines and birds connected to it.

Is there anything typically Australian that sneaks into your work? Places and birds and flowers — Flyaway was set in Western Queensland, and Honeyeater, while in a fictional city and suburb, is very heavily based on my area of Brisbane, its floods and trees and Queenslander houses.

The cover image of Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings, which has a girl with flowers and a bird in front of / making up her face

What’s new for you? My new Australian subtropical-suburban Gothic novel Honeyeater, about the ghosts of home and the memory of water, came out last year!

Where can we find you? tanaudel.wordpress.com; @tanaudel most other places - and I run @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social girlfleeshouse.tumblr.com

Photo of Kathleen Jennings, a woman with short brown hair. She wears a patterned blue shirt and a blue necklace. She stands in front of some trees.

Kathleen Jennings (@tanaudel.bsky.social) is an Australian writer and artist – and GoH at Swancon this year...

Where are you based? Brisbane!
Your work in brief: Gothic, Australian Gothic, fairy tales, and fairy-tale Gothic fiction and illustration.

It's almost time to announce the 2026 Hugo Award Finalists!

Stay tuned to @laworldcon.bsky.social's feed to find out the works being honoured by this year's Worldcon members!

#HugoAwards thehugoawards.bsky.social

Still morning in Brisbane.

Resplendent in purple hues, Brisbane city by the river.

I need to update this as the newly built Kangaroo Point pedestrian bridge crosses this scene.
#photography

Logo for the Brisbane Worldcon 2028 Bid. The letters of Brisbane filled with images. B with stars, R with space ship, I with rocket ship, B with astronaut, A and N with a Martian landscape, E with a frog blasting light from its mouth.

The Canberra Speculative Fiction Group: csfg.org.au
Conflux: www.conflux.org

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

@catsparx.bsky.social

Farah's Reading Sweepstake, Closing date to enter: 26th May 2026 I have 33 unread books on my kindle. Every single one of them is a book I want to read. About 25 of them have been there for ages.A few were added for the trip. There are two books in hard copy (indic...

I am travelling to AU/NZ with 33 books on my e-reader, a mix of non fiction and fiction.
I am running a Sweepstake on 'How many books will Farah read during GUFF?" All proceeds to GUFF.
If you want to play, go here: forms.gle/KvTUTuwnFVJS...

swancon50.sf.org.au is soon!. One of committee members is Cat Sparks. From New South Wales, Cat was manager & editor of Agog! Press, publisher of Australian sf anthologies, and later editor of Cosmos Magazine. Cat is a writer & artist, awarded the Ditmar and the Aurealis for her work. catsparks.net

ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction shortlist The shortlisted stories for ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction has been announced

Congratulations to all listed by Violet Lichen Books on the shortlist for ECO25: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction!  It includes New Zealanders Octavia Cade and E. M. Linden.
@octavia-cade.bsky.social @emlinden.bsky.social

Enjoy the Cover Reveal! violetlichen.com/2026/04/10/e...
#Brisbane2028

Talk to Valoree! 🐨

Image of four different 3D-printed tiny koala bears, one in blue/green colourshift, one in pink, one in grey, and one in sparkly purple.

Good evening #WoTSkies at JordanCon,
Have you found your TINY KOALA yet? Share your photo!

#JordanCon2026
#swag-and-seek
@jordanconinc.bsky.social

Did you give one of the #TinyKoalas a home this year? Post a picture, #TinyKoalas #TinyKoalaAdventures #Brisbane2028

Did you give one of the #TinyKoalas a home this year? Post a picture, #TinyKoalas #TinyKoalaAdventures #Brisbane2028

Did you give one of the #TinyKoalas a home this year? Post a picture, #TinyKoalas #TinyKoalaAdventures #Brisbane2028

Did you give one of the #TinyKoalas a home this year? Post a picture, #TinyKoalas #TinyKoalaAdventures #Brisbane2028