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Kathleen Jennings

@tanaudel.bsky.social

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Writer, illustrator. Dr! Australia. Agent: Shena Wolf. https://linktr.ee/tanaudel Next book: HONEYEATER @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social & @improbablemaps.bsky.social #artthoughts #storynotes Prints: tanaudel.redbubble.com Support: patreon.com/tanaudel

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 23d

HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is now out!

Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/

Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings
Unsettling baroque image of a person in a white shirt, head obscured by birds and flowers
Art by Lindsey Carr, design by Christine Foltzer, edited by Ellen Datlow

OUT NOW

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 4h

The map's form: relocatable pins
It shows: where things happened
Its purpose: to discourage

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 4h

:D thank you!

Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 6h

Sketching at the Avid Reader popup at the Brisbane Writers Festival at the Powerhouse

Small b&w sketches of people buying books, cameoed by swatches of bright colours

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 9h

Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 17h

Off to interview Garth Nix and Fiona McIntosh on Kingdoms and Quests at the Brisbane Writers Festival this morning!

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 1d

I did!

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bookmarkedone @bookmarkedone.bsky.social · 1d

The delight! The whimsy! Memento mori! Carpe florem!

Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 1d

Spring skulls, available on various things — to cover the mood in both hemispheres
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1651...

Spring skulls by tanaudel | Redbubble

Ink, watercolour and pencil drawings, for Australian spring / Halloween

www.redbubble.com

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 1d

Spring skulls, available on various things — to cover the mood in both hemispheres
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1651...

Spring skulls by tanaudel | Redbubble

Ink, watercolour and pencil drawings, for Australian spring / Halloween

www.redbubble.com

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 2d

So in my 8:30pm panel at the Brisbane Writers Festival I forgot the words “raccoon” and “fairy floss” and started miming the meme but fortunately (?) someone in the audience guessed and shouted it out

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 2d

Post-panel fries and Vine compilations

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2d

If you want a sample of what the Deadlands can bring YOU, please read my short story "doorbell dot mov" that they published just last year!

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

By the way if you got a bookshop not too far away from Brighton and you want an event where I draw stuff with people and then sign books, let me know!
Here's my latest book about what happens when you make art by surprise (or even on purpose)
www.walker.co.uk/978152951577...

Sometimes You Find a Dragon - Walker Books

Sometimes you find a dragon.A dragon of creativity.An inspiring picture book that encourages all young children to celebrate making and creating.From the awa...

www.walker.co.uk

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 2d

After a 2.5 hr workshop!!

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J MacQueen @jomacmouse.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to @tanaudel.bsky.social, who shared a link to a Mr Squiggle exhibition in Canberra, I have Bill Steamshovel stickers (& a pin!) coming my way. Also a postcard of Blackboard saying “Hurry up!”. Apologies to those who didn’t grow up with Mr Squiggle.

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 2d

Be bold, be bold...
(Prints, and other things)
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3134...

Be Bold, Be Bold by tanaudel | Redbubble

A design based on the fairytale of Mr Fox, and Angela Carter's version of it in The Bloody Chamber. Be bold, be bold, But not too bold, Lest that thy heart's blood Should run cold.

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 2d

If you can get to the Australian National Museum by the 13th, Mr Squiggle and Friends was a really charming exhibition

A puppet snail with a TV ("Gus TV") in a TV studio. Subtitle: "So from now on, this is my program."

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 2d

If I had had any discretionary funds I would have beggared myself in the museum gift store
shop.nma.gov.au/collections/...

T-shirt It's Upside Down Miss Jane White with Blue Writing - Branded Ideas

It's Upside Down Miss Jane adult t-shirt designed for National Museum of Australia's Mr Squiggle and Friends exhibition. About the exhibition: Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman He...

shop.nma.gov.au

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 2d

Mature graffiti

Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 2d

haha

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 10d

Mysteries, ghost stories, and a hungry creek: Kathleen Jennings' dark fantasy Honeyeater is a sublime Australian Gothic 🍃

reactormag.com/book-review-...

A Town, A Creek, A History: Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings - Reactor

Honeyeater, a "precarious, lush, elegant, and visceral" novel, is one of Molly Templeton's favorite books of the year.

reactormag.com

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 8d

I was sorting through art for the World Fantasy Convention, but found this silhouette, cut from a cyanotype, of a figure in one of the little ghost stories in HONEYEATER.

Hand holding tiny silhouette on blue paper. A scarecrow figure of twigs.

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Ratty @rattejak.bsky.social · 3d

Blue-faced Honeyeater
08/10/25

Pixelart illustration of a blue-faced honeyeater pouring sugar into a teacup. The bird species has an olive-coloured back, a black head and a white belly. Its name comes from the bright blue markings around its eyes. The tea cup is white with a golden brim. The bird stands on its brim and handle pouring in sugar from a sugar packet. The background is a minimalist drawing of some buildings. The main illustration is done in a realistic style.

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