Meet the Author - Kathleen Jennings and A.G. Slatter

World and British Fantasy Award-winning author Angela Slatter and British Fantasy Award-winning author and World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator Kathleen Jennings are in town for Swancon 50! Join them for an evening of conversation as they discuss spinning worlds out of fairy tales, enchanting the Australian bush, collaborating, mentoring and ornamenting each others' stories.

About Kathleen Jennings 
Kathleen Jennings is a writer and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. Her debut novel, Flyaway, was published in 2020. Her writing has won the British Fantasy and Ditmar Awards and been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and The Courier-Mail People's Choice Book of the Year Award (Queensland Literary Awards). She is also a World Fantasy Award-winning and Hugo Award-nominated illustrator. Kathleen has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Queensland.

About Angela Slatter 
A.G. Slatter has won a Shirley Jackson Award, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, three Australian Shadows Awards, eight Aurealis Awards and a Premier Ignotus. Most recently, All the Murmuring Bones was shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Book of the Year and the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award; The Path of Thorns won both the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel in 2022; and The Briar Book of the Dead has been shortlisted for both the Aurealis and Australian Shadows Awards for 2024. 

She has a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop and has been a judge for the World Fantasy and Aurealis Awards.