I have lived all my life in a city, but in my heart, I yearn for the wild. I want to see the incandescent lights of […]
Made for Art: Novels which Recreate the Lives of Famous Artists Good Reading, September 2010 Ever since I was a teenager, I have been fascinated by […]
Grimm fairytale: the real love story behind the Grimms’ fairy tales’ Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April 2013 I have always loved fairy tales. […]
Four Fascinating Women of the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood Good Reading Magazine – June 2017 My new novel ‘Beauty in Thorns’ is a novel about love, art […]
Drawing Inspiration from Fairy Tales BITE September 2019 I am famously fascinated by fairy tales – I love their wild beauty and their hidden claws. Many […]
Suffragette Mary De Morgan: England’s First Feminist Fairy Tale Writer? Folklore Thursday June 7 2018 Ask anyone for the names of the great fairy tale tellers, […]
The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales Folklore Thursday April 6 2017 I was enchanted with the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales from the moment I […]
Daydreaming & Creativity Womankind February 2017 I have always been a great builder of castles in the air. My Year 5 teacher would, without any warning, […]
The Big Idea: Fairy Tales John Scalzi Whatever March 29 2016 Fairy tales have been with us for a very long time. Ever since humans invented […]
Books Are Dangerous in The Simple Act of Reading, edited by Debra Adelaide, Random House 2015 Books are dangerous. I have known this ever since I […]
Stories as Salvation Griffith Review August 2013 I was only a child when I faced death for the first time. Aged just two years and four […]
The Forgotten Fairy Tale Tellers Aurealis #59 April 2013 Mention fairy tale tellers, and the first name to come to mind is the Grimm brothers. Next […]
Fuddling Up My Mucking Words Again The Sydney Morning Herald November 17, 2012 Last week, teaching at a Winter Writers’ Retreat at Trinity College at Melbourne […]
The Birth of Science Fiction: Mary Shelley and the writing of Frankenstein Seizure: Issue 2 November 2011 Kate Forsyth shares the fascinating story of how Mary […]
The Birth of Fantasy: Tolkien and his Lecture on Fairy Tales Seizure: Issue 2 November 2011 Kate Forsyth examines Tolkien’s famous lecture on Fairy Tales and […]
Cinderella Fights back MammaMia 14 April 2011 Mia has said the heroines of fairy tales make her want to claw her own face off. She worries about […]
Slaying Dragons – Why Fantasy Fiction is Vital Reading for Children Magpies September 2010 J.K. Rowling and the boy wizard with the lightning scar. Christopher […]
And Another Thing – Kate Forsyth talks about her struggle with Stuttering Sunday Life, The Sun-Herald November 2007 I have struggled with my stutter all my […]
Art & Agoraphobia Sunday Life July 6, 2007 It may have been Emily Dickinson who struck the first spark. Certainly her story fascinated me. The eccentric […]
Five have what it takes: J.K. Rowling & Enid Blyton Spectrum The Sydney Morning Herald, 9-10 June 2001 There could be few people left on the […]