

KATE FORSYTH APPEARANCES
2022
Sunday 10th April 2022, 12-3pm
Kate will be gathering with a few friends for a story circle at Don Bank Museum in North Sydney to celebrate the launch of The Gardener’s Son & the Golden Bird & Other Tales of Gentle Young Men, Book 4 in the Long-Lost Fairy-Tales series https://kateforsyth.com.au/book/long-lost-fairy-tales.
Here are the details if you’d like to come:
Don Bank Museum
6 Napier St
North Sydney (walking distance from North Sydney station).
Bring $5 + a plate
Bring a story to tell about a kind young man, or a book, or some art to share.
Enquiries: Jo Henwood, Australian Fairy Tale Society [email protected]
Please note: numbers are strictly limited!
Friday, 27 May 2022, 7 – 8.30pm
On Creativity: Kate Forsyth & Bem Le Hunte In Conversation
The Pavilion, Kiama
ON CREATIVITY is an event in two parts: a networking drinks event for creatives with representatives from local creative organisations, and an In Conversation discussion on creativity and creative practice between authors Kate Forsyth and Bem Le Hunte.
Ticket: $45 / $35 SCWC Members
Get your tickets HERE
Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th June, 2022
Kate will be appearing at the Words on the Waves Writers Festival on the scenic Central Coast, NSW.
Saturday 4th June, 11.30-12.30
Her Story
Participants: Hannah Kent, Kate Forsyth, Felicity McLean. Moderator Kate Evans.
Venue: Umina Beach Surf Lifesaving Club.
Hilary Mantel wrote: “women writers…can’t resist retrospectively empowering” women of the past. Do we agree … and does it matter? Each writer powerfully brings the past into the present, from the minotaur myth in Kate Forsyth’s latest novel The Crimson Thread, to Felicity McLean’s reimagining of Ned Kelly (spoiler: Ned becomes a girl, and she’s from the Coast!) and Hannah Kent’s impeccably researched tales of real and imagined women from history.
Sunday 5th June, 10am – 12pm
Character Writing Workshop
Venue: Work Collective
Click HERE for more information
Monday 6 June – Monday 4 July
The Story Doctor with Dr Kate Forsyth
Live Online Course
6.30 – 9pm every Monday night for 4 weeks
Diagnose and cure your story’s maladies…
This course is ideal for: Writers with a finished novel, and looking to get it published
You will explore:
How to deconstruct your manuscript and work out what needs to be re-worked
Whether the skeleton of your novel is sound
Techniques for effective cutting and polishing
Refining dialogue, description, images and metaphors
And much more!
Purchase your tickets HERE
Friday 1 July 2022
Launch of The Crimson Thread
Save the date! Kate’s new novel The Crimson Thread is released in early July and she’s planning on a series of lovely celebrations. Want to secure your copy? Pre-order at any good bookstore.
Friday 15 July – Friday 22 July 2022
TRUE LIFE STORIES with Dr Kate Forsyth & Belinda Murrell
A week-long retreat at beautiful Springfield in the Southern Highlands of NSW, running from:
LEARN HOW TO TRANSFORM TRUE LIFE INTO COMPELLING STORIES
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
Ernest Hemingway
In this in-depth and intensive writing retreat, Kate and Belinda will teach you the art of personal storytelling while drawing upon real life in your creative work. Whether you are writing fiction or non-fiction, memoir or autobiography, this retreat will give you the tools you need to write with authority and authenticity.
For more information or to book, click HERE
Monday 4 August – 22 August
Dare to Dream: Find your voice and tell your story
LIVE ONLINE COURSE
6.30-8.30pm Every Monday night for 4 weeks
This course is ideal for: Writers who wish to unlock the door to their subconscious and find joy, inspiration, vitality and empowerment in telling their story.
You will:
Find the courage to tell your story in your own true voice
Discover new inspiration and direction in your writing
Learn how to write swiftly and fluidly in the flow
Be energised to explore new ways of thinking about writing and storytelling
Face your fears and unlock your full potential
$465
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Monday 5th September & Monday 12th September 2022
PLOTTING & PLANNING with Kate Forsyth
Live Online Course
6.30 – 9pm every Monday night for 2 weeks
This course is ideal for: Fiction writers looking for more structure
You will learn:
The basic formula for all stories
Intuitive approach versus the analytical approach
The seven basic plots you need to know
How to keep your reader glued to your plot
And much more
$275
Purchase your tickets HERE
Monday 10 October – Monday 7 November
History, Mystery and Magic
LIVE ONLINE COURSE
6.30-8.30pm Every Monday night for 5 weeks
Explore the romance of history, mystery and magic in your writing
Do you want to write novels filled with the romance of the past?
Or with the page-turning compulsion of a suspenseful mystery?
Maybe you want to tell a story with that extra twist of magic and wonder?
Stories set in the past can take your readers into another world. But what tools and techniques can you use to capture their imagination? If you want to explore the romance of history, mystery and magic… this is the course for you!
$450
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Friday 22nd – Friday 29th September 2023
Mythic Creativity Retreat To Enchant & Empower Your Life
A week-long retreat at Springfield Farm in the Southern Highlands of NSW. Morning workshops and afternoons free to daydream, write, create, rest and rejuvenate.
Re-discover your creativity and fill your life with enchantment, wonder and empowerment. Drawing on ancient myths and fairy tales, this retreat with Dr Kate Forsyth and Kinchem Hegedus in the glorious Southern Highlands celebrates storytelling, poetry, art and the making of things with hands and heart. It is designed to help you find a new sense of meaning, purpose and connection to the human and natural world, as well as an opportunity for a cleansing of your body and spirit. Dr Kate Forsyth draws on her doctorate in fairy tales and mythology, and her many years of creative practice as a poet, novelist, oral storyteller and retreat leader, to help you follow your bliss and awaken to a life of creative joy.
This retreat is for any woman who longs to re-discover her joy in creativity.
“Myths and fairy tales, like art and poetry, are potent distillations of the human psyche, speaking in the mysterious language of the deep unconscious: allegory and archetype, metaphor and motif, symbol and synchronicity. They are the quintessence of wonder and wisdom.’
Kate Forsyth
SAVE THE DATE!
For more information, click HERE