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# Isobelle Carmody

Author · Illustrator

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- [News](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/news/) - For all the latest information about Isobelle Carmody's books, workshops and writer events. Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia's favourite authors, published...
- [Testing, testing...](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/isobelle-carmody-relaunched-greylands/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqn8nenlgyI Maureen McCarthy launched Isobelle Carmody's Greylands at Readings Carlton (309 Lygon Street) Mon. Oct 22 at 4 pm, while Isobelle launched Maureen’s novel, The Convent. The launch presentation is embedded above. This launch was conducted as a conversation between Maureen and Isobelle with readings from their novels. Due to technical difficulties there are a couple of interruptions, but most
- [Perchance to Dream Audiobook](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/perchance-to-dream-audiobook/) - I have recently narrated for Bolinda Audio, the origin story that led me to write Comes the Night. They have just send me the lovely cover design which is clearly intended to echo the marvellous cover Zoe Sadokierski created for Comes the Night.
- [Works in Progress: 9 Tales](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/works-in-progress-9-tales/) - A graphic short story collection featuring stories by Isobelle and the Graphic story group from her Patreon Site. A work in progress. There is one rough to which has been added a red feather and a fox tail, which I drew 🙂
- [Mountain Retreat](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/mountain-retreat/) - Once a year I go up Mt Hotham in Victoria for a week, on retreat with a group. We bring our own food and cook for ourselves, sometimes together sometimes separately, except for the first night when I cook for us. We have this year nominated September 20 – 28 as our retreat dates. Reach
- [Book Addiction Cruise](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/book-addiction-cruise/) - I have just returned from 10 nights on a cruise. It was not something I have ever done, or honestly, wanted to do. Karyn Stratton from Book Addiction wrote to invite me, and given the chance to do something I have never done before, I could not resist. It was a pretty amazing experience. Here
- [Works in Progress: Saltsong](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/works-in-progress-saltsong/) - Saltsong is a graphic novel continuing the adventures of Little Fur. Isobelle illustrated the Little Fur series, and is often asked if there will be another Little Fur novel. There may well be, but for now she is working with renowned Canberra digital artist Paul Summerfield, to merge their art to tell the story of
- [Works in Progress: Darkbane](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/works-in-progress-darkbane/) - Darkbane is the frontline novel I am working on now and I hope to hand over a full draft to Allen and Unwin by the end of this year, whereupon they will republish the first two books in the lead up to the release of Darkbane. I have spent the first half of this year
- [Accelerated Year of the Novel workshops](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/accelerated-year-of-the-novel-workshops/) - Commencing Sunday August 3rd (The following four workshops are once a month thereafter.) I will be running these for and at the Queensland Writers Centre, in the second half of the year. This series is aimed at people with a novel in progress – you can book using the link above. The course description follows.
- [The Garrett podcast](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-garrett-podcast/) - Nic: Isobelle Carmody is an inventive and extraordinarily popular writer. When it comes to Australian fantasy fiction, there is no bigger name. I recorded this chat with Isobelle at the State Library of Victoria, after Isobelle had spent the weekend at Comic Con. I started by asking her about her early influences... Listen to the
- [Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/eat-the-sky-drink-the-ocean/) - Eat the Sky Drink the Ocean is a new anthology featuring a graphic story by Isobelle. It is a collection of sci-fi and fantasy writing, including six graphic stories, showcasing twenty stellar writers and artists from India and Australia. It is published in Australia by Allen & Unwin and will be available February 2015.
- [Movie Deal for Greylands](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/movie-deal-for-book-greylands/) - Isobelle's novel Greylands is being made into a film! Greylands is the haunting and exquisitely rendered story of Jack and his little sister, Ellen, as they struggle to cope with their father's despair in the bleak time after their mother's death. One night Jack enters the greylands – a world where there is no
- [Reviews of The Cloud Road](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/reviews-of-the-cloud-road/) - Isobelle Carmody's award winning series, The Kingdom of the Lost Book 2: The Cloud Road ..."This is a gorgeous little hardcover book aimed at younger readers, complete with pen and ink drawings scattered throughout...This story will engage children at the right stage to read independently; many children given this novel will continue to reread and
- [Reviews of The Red Wind](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/reviews-of-the-red-wind/) - Isobelle Carmody's award winning series, The Kingdom of the Lost Book 1: The Red Wind ..."Accompanying the story are charming illustrations full of atmosphere and expression. They are drawn by the author herself– further fruit of Carmody’s talented creativity"...-Megan Burke Read full review by Megan Burke ..."The Red Wind is an enchanting, whimsical story
- [Interview with Victoria Writer](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/interview-content-with-country-style/) - Isobelle Carmody is passionate writer and she talks about her enthusiasm with Anna Kelsey-Sugg from Victoria Writer Magazine. Click the image to read more of the interview. Victoria Writer Magazine website: http://writersvictoria.org.au/
- [Greylands](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/greylands-4/) - The launch site of Greylands eBook is now closed but the Great eBook Debate will be archived on Isobelle's blog The Slipstream which will be live in November. Greylands eBook is available from Amazon , Smashwords , Booki.sh Ford St Publishing have also republished Greylands in print form which will be available in October.
- [Talk Review: the day of the authors](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/talk-review-the-day-of-the-authors/) - Rachel Towns attended one of Isobelle Carmody's talks . She was thrilled to meet her in person and inspired by her talk. "... ideas came from: taking little bits from real life and connecting them all together..."-Rachel Towns and read full review by Rachel Towns
- [Guest Residence for March](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/guest-residence-for-march/) - Insideadog is a website which encourages young people to read and write, run by the State Library of Victoria. They feature month long residences of Australian children's writers. Isobelle is their author in residence for March. Many of us know her from stories in the newspapers, radio and print interviews and talks, but the
- [Penguin Presents - Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/914-2/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsKZow5ZBSE
- [Perchance to Dream, Short Story by Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/perchance-to-dream-short-story-by-isobelle-carmody-read-by-cynthia-p-colby/) - The District of Wonders website put up a reading of Isobelle Carmody's short story, Perchance to Dream, which appeared in the Dreaming Again anthology in 2008, read by Cynthia P Colby. The portion of the podcast available here has been published purely for archiving purposes. Perchance to Dream Anna woke knowing she had been dreaming,
- [Strangers' Gate](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/strangers-gate/) - What is it about airports? Case thought. There was something almost mythical about the level of boredom and stagnation that you experienced, trapped in these mazes of shining glass and plastic laid out over acres of bilious looking carpet. Yet in movies airports were always represented as glamorous and slightly dangerous places, where pursuit scenes erupted
- [An Excerpt from The Journey](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/an-excerpt-from-the-journey/) - She recognized him from the holovids and nuscan bites as soon as she was ushered into his office. Tall and handsome, electric blue eyes, a great eccentric mane of white-blond hair and a smile that seemed just a little too bright and wide in real life. William Reichler was fleshier than in the vids, but
- [The Stone Key Readings](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-stone-key-readings/) - Here are the transcripts of Isobelle Carmody's readings from Convergence in June 2007. Watch all the recordings via this Playlist on Youtube. Reading 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw_0AmGCth4&list=PLwUsMlRxnrwf8iYneNfokArtE43yJt-hv&index=1 I thought of the premonition that had assailed me earlier. “I begin to fear we were too quick to let people know of our refuge. Suddenly everything seems less sure,
- [An Excerpt from The Stone Witch](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/an-excerpt-from-the-stone-witch/) - Here’s the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out
- [An Excerpt from Metro Winds](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/an-excerpt-from-metro-winds/) - So there was a girl. Young but not too young. A face as unformed as an egg, so that one could not tell if she would turn out to be fair or astonishingly ugly. She was to be sent to a city in another land by a mother and father in the midst of a
- [A Nibble from The Sending](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/a-nibble-from-the-sending/) - At the far end of a narrow passage, a yellow light flashed a dull summons in the grainy dimness. The ground underfoot was broken and dangerously uneven, but a sense of urgency drove me on. 'Stop!' a woman's voice commanded. The murk quivered and thinned and I saw Dragon ahead, sitting on a broken stone
- [An Excerpt from Moth's Tale](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/an-excerpt-from-moths-tale/) - Moth’s father was a foolish, impulsive, prideful man. One day he decided to go before the king with some other men, to propose a festival. He was a miller and the other men were variously a grain farmer, a cow herder, a baker and an orchardist and each of them called himself the master of
- [The Sending New Paperback Edition](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-sending-new-paperback-edition/) - The Sending: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Book 6 will be available again in a new paperback edition from April 24th. RRP $22.99 For overseas fans you can purchase a copy with free worldwide shipping online at fishpond.com
- [Interview by The Booktopia Podcast](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/interview-by-the-booktopia-podcast/) - ..."Illustration comes first or you write the story first? or you do a bit of both?"... Click on the image below to hear the interview by The Booktopia Podcast on Soundcloud. The Booktopia Podcast on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/booktopiapodcast
- [Unmasking The Wild](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/unmasking-the-wild/) - A unique collection of masks created by 22 of Australia’s incredibly talented children’s book illustrators and artists. The collection was unveiled at The Masked Ball that celebrated the completion of the the final book in the Obernewtyn series, The Red Queen and is currently on display at the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre until July
- [Kid's Book Review: 12 Curly Questions with Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/kids-book-review-mini-interview/) - One of questions is " What/who made you start writing? " for Isobelle to answer. Click on the image below to read 12 Questions Q&A by Kids' Book Review
- [Reviews of The Ice Maze](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/reviews-of-the-ice-maze/) - Isobelle Carmody’s award winning series, The Kingdom of the Lost Book 3: The Ice Maze ..."The Ice Maze is the much anticipated third part in Isobelle Carmody’s The Kingdom of the Lost, and continues the story of brothers Bily and Zluty as they make their way across unknown lands, encountering strange sights and new creatures
- [Bookwise: September 2010](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/september-2010/) - The last book I read was Guy Gavriel Kay’s Ysabel. I LOVE the spelling! The cover is lovely and very sophisticated, which is always a pleasure in a genre plagued by horrible lurid covers. The blurb gave me no hint that two of the characters hail from another story which I loved. I have to
- [Interview with TLC Books](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/interview-with-tlc-books/) - TLC Books contacted me and I have an interview with them. Click Here to have a read the interview with TLC Books.
- [Bookwise: April 2011](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/right-now-i-am-reading/) - Right now I am reading: The Weight of the World by Peter Handke I am half way through this and it is brilliant and nauseating in equal measure. I love his writing and his ability to transform his sharp perceptions into words, but he is unbearably self-centred and neurotic and sexist, though maybe that it
- [The Wilful Eye Review by Australian Book Review](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/another-reviews-of-the-wilful-eye/) - Dear Readers, the following content is originally from Australian Book Review ,but it requires an log in to view the content,so I paste on my site to share the review with you. Content of May 2011 It is the shared mythology of fairy tale that binds the six stories in The Wilful Eye. Isobelle Carmody
- [Reviews of The Wilful Eye: Tales From The Tower Vol 1](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/reviews-of-the-wiful-eyes/) - April 10, 2011 The Wilful Eye review in the The Junior Newsletter. April 11, 2011 Book review of The Wilful Eye by The Book Gryffin. My adoration of all things fairytale and fairytale related is certainly well known, though when it comes to fairytale retellings, I am oft left disappointed. NOT so, this time... May
- [Bookwise: May 2011](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/bookwise-may-2011/) - So books- I have recently finished Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson. It is a really lovely and unexpected book. Major Ernest Pettigrew is content to lead a quiet life in the sleepy village of Edgecombe St Mary, away from the meddling of the locals and his overbearing son. But when his brother dies,
- [Book of the Year 2011 Winner](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/book-of-the-year-2011-winner/) - April 2011, The Children's Book Council of Australia shortlist announced. The Red Wind has been shortlisted in the Younger Readers category. August 19th 2011, The Red Wind is the winner of the Younger Readers category.
- [Interview by Rowena Cory Daniells](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/interview-by-rowena-cory-daniells/) - Rowena Cory Daniells is passionate about writing just like Isobelle herself. They met up for an interview and she wrote the interview,Meet Isobelle Carmody .
- [Reviews of Metro Winds](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/reviews-of-metro-winds/) - "Metro Winds is a collection of five short stories, each more enchanted than the last, and while the stories all have fantastical elements, the majority are set firmly in the real world. Carmody’s writing is full of beautiful, carefully crafted imagery." Lip Magazine Read full review by Lip Magazine "Although there are subtle differences between
- [Greylands e-edition](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/greylands-e-edition/) - The fabulous micro-site for the launch of Isobelle Carmody's Greylands as an e-edition--self-destructing in a month's time, the site features info about the book, competitions, and 'The Great E-Book Debate' which features a different guest columnist every day. First guest post was Alex Adsett with a great overview piece. Her second guest in the eVolution
- [Interviews 2012](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/web-interview/) - August 2012 Kezia Lubanszky had a chat with Isobelle Carmody and read the full interview. July 2012 Kathrynlinge had a snapshot Interview with Isobelle Carmody and read the full interview. May 2012 Isobelle Carmody was interviewed by Lost in Fiction and read the full interview.
- [Review of Green Monkey Dreams (Reprint)](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/review-of-green-monkey-dreams/) - "It is one of the best collections of short stories I’ve read recently, for both its high quality and the sense of consistency between the stories – without ever feeling like they’re the same."-Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus Read full review by Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus "I have to say that this is my
- [Reprint: Journey From the Centre of the Earth](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/reprint-journey-from-the-centre-of-the-earth/) - This wonderful children's book was written by Isobelle and illustrated by Marc McBride. This latest edition has been bought by Hachette publisher under their Children's Books section. The short of this story: "Two friends tell each other a story Have you heard about the duck at the centre of the earth? Left there by a
- [Greylands Relaunch](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/greylands-relaunch/) - Isobelle Carmody relaunched Greylands with Maureen McCarthy's novel, The Convent. This video recorded their conversation. It is published by Dark Matter Fanzine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqn8nenlgyI
- [The Slipstream](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/theslipstream-is-coming/) - Isobelle Carmody's solo blog, TheSlipstream is live!
- [Interview with Moreton Bay Libraries](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/interview-with-moreton-bay-libraries/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGaFIuKJBCw&feature=youtu.be
- [Snapshots from a Mash Up Year.](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/snapshots-from-a-mash-up-year/) - : it has been over a year since I took a blog break. . . . : it was not meant to be so long but life has its own purposes, it seems to me, within which my will and desire are no more than receptive or resistant pawns. : for instance, I wanted to write
- [Notes from Santorini.](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/notes-from-santorini/) - : Some say horsemen, some say warriors, Some say a fleet of ships is the loveliest Vision in this dark world, but I say it’s What you love. sappho . . . : gazing down at the shining ocean surrounding Santorini Island, or walking through over-peopled Fira, in between bouts of furious work, thoughts drift
- [An Icelandic Saga](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/an-icelandic-saga/) - there are places that change you . . . . . travel is all about metamorphosis. : but there are places which, though you may never have been there before or even thought of going there, answer a question your soul did not know until then, that it was asking. I felt this sense of
- [Taken at the Flood](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/taken-at-the-flood/) - . . . there is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. : . . . over a decade ago, in 2002, river Vltava flooded. : people called it a Hundred Year
- [Wings of Desire](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/wings-of-desire/) - one of the most beautiful, moving, poetic films I have ever seen is Wings of Desire.. . . . : i mean the original Wim Wenders version in German with subtitles (German title literally translates as Wings over Berlin), with a script chiefly written by the brilliant and controversial Austrian writer Peter Handke.
- [E book - an evolutionary step or a fork in the story road?](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/e-book-an-evolutionary-step-or-a-fork-in-the-story-road/) - taking a walk around my neighbourhood in Prague one windy day last week, I found myself reflecting upon the online month long self destructing launch of my first self-published E book, Greylands, in the light of the sales figures I had just rounded up for the first time. . . . : the launch took
- [Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop/) - . . . i like that phrase. The small perfection of it. : what it means: the fraught anticipation rising from the knowledge that there is something more to come. : the implication is that an event- the dropping of the first shoe - occurred and that by so doing, implied and heralded a
- [On The Road](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/on-the-road/) - (with Crow) : : Part 1. Being on tour is being inside a kalidoscope. everything is turned inside out and upsidedown. It is all bright flashes and shifty jewels. You try to work and you are being interviewed and photographed constantly for different articles and different publications. You are meeting fans and
- [The importance of being present](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-importance-of-being-present/) - it is important to be alert. : photo by Jan . . . being alert requires us to be present in the present. : by this, I mean we must be aware of what is happening in the present moment; Conscious of the people and things around us now, rather than always thinking
- [On silence](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/on-silence/) - : pictures by Jan Stolba . . . I think a lot about silence. . . . . . . i used to equate silence with power because for most of my life, I felt powerless and was talkative. Silent people seemed mysteriously powerful to me, and I saw words and speech as lesser weapons
- [Being normal](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/being-normal/) - : it is a slate grey day such as I might have drawn in black ink on the thick watercolour paper I like best. It has a rough texture over which the points of the thin nibs I use, scratch like little claws. : . . . this image of myself as a bird flows
- [Too many angels](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/too-many-angels/) - why all the animals? . . . . . . sometimes someone asks a question that makes you think and the more you think about it, the bigger the question gets. : and why not consider it now, approaching the end of 2012, on the verge of a year that was never supposed to
- [a feeling for snow](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/a-feeling-for-snow/) - I have come to think of December as the Dark Month : by Jan Stolba . . . . not just because of the difference between a Winter December and a Summer December, but because it is really incredibly dark. Day seems to last about fifteen minutes, and mostly that is overcast day. You
- [days like this](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/days-like-this/) - : today in the shower I had the overpowering conviction that my editor hates me . . . photo by Adelaide Stolba . . . it is one of those days. : it started out with me pulling the plug on my poet. Not on his life support system, though he might beg to differ,
- [day one](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/day-one-2/) - so, the blog site is live. : : not sure yet what it will be when it grows up, though I have been thinking on and off of it for months while Min has been building the site and in between all of that long, busy, diverse tour that started over a month ago in
- [The Last Day](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-last-day/) - Today is the last official day of this Greylands launch microsite. (in fact it will not come down until Monday evening when Min gets home from work) See it and comment before it vanishes, or forever hold your peace! In due course, it will be archived by the Canberra Library - it will not be
- [The Journey Ends...Or Does It?](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-journey-ends-or-does-it/) - Tomorrow, this Greylands Launch site in all its depth and complexity, will self-destruct. I know it is wonderful – so much more than I imagined when Min and I devised it in theory- and I am touched how many emails and posts asked that it be left up, but in general, beautiful things do not
- [The Last Word](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-last-word-isobelle-carmody/) - I have always wanted to have the last word only I am not the sort of person who comes up with it on the spur of the moment. For me, to write is to think so the last word usually occurs to me well after the conversation is over. But because the eVolution debate happened
- [And the winners are...](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/and-the-winners-are/) - It has been an exciting, interactive month for everyone who has contributed and commented on the Great eBook Debate, and Heather, Isobelle and I would like to thank all of you for taking the time to share their thoughts and experiences in such a polite, intelligent and diplomatic way. Heather and Min As promised at
- [Parchments, Paper and Palimpsests](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/parchments-paper-and-palimpsests-lucy-sussex/) - The word ‘palimpsest’ is not usually found in an eleven-year's vocabulary, even a word-loving kid, as I was. I learnt it only because my family were living in England My mother had, with the idea of keeping her children occupied and also engaged with the history around us, got us brass-rubbing. Armed with heelball from
- [Drawing Dragons](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/drawing-dragons-marc-mcbride/) - In P3 (as grade 3 is known in Northern Ireland) my teacher began reading Tolkien’s The Hobbit. It probably comes as no surprise to anyone who knows the books I’ve illustrated that it left an indelible impression on me. But what might be a surprise is that I wasn’t interested in drawing before then. Apart
- [Paper Traces](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/paper-traces-rebecca-harkins-cross/) - Recently my boyfriend and I broke up. When the recriminations and the laments were done, my parting request was that he return my copy of Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem. He’d borrowed it months earlier, promising to return it swiftly but instead inching through each essay with painful protraction. In the weeks that we’d been
- [The Lost Art](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-lost-art-fiona-hazard/) - I am a reader. I don’t mind how or where I read a book as long as I can lose myself in a story. Reading allows me to escape to another time and place; makes me gasp, cry or laugh; makes me think about how I would act in a similar situation; or takes me on
- [The shape of books to come](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-shape-of-books-to-come-nick-hagger/) - My name is Nick and I'm a gamer. I enjoy playing games, and I enjoy making them. I've spent the last 15 years working as a video game developer and now myself, and two of my long-time collaborators, have started a new venture taking our lessons from games development and applying them to digital books.
- [Lost Treasures](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/lost-treasures-denise-civelli/) - It was like a small death – a lemming leaping over the precipice with the mob because someone thought it was a good idea. Only to survive and wonder how you could be convinced such an act could be constructive in the short or long term. At 21 I relinquished the loves of my young
- [A View of One’s Own](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/a-view-of-ones-own-erica-wagner/) - I am not tremendously for or against ebooks - they simply are but one more form that stories can take. Unlike newspapers, I think there will always be a market for printed books, and that print will remain the preferred form for illustrated books in particular. Max und Moritz At A&U they have been part
- [A pernickity book worm](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/a-pernickity-book-worm-adele-walsh/) - From the moment my mother first introduced me to the written word I have been a book worm. Always curious, always questioning and always devouring new stories and adventures – eager to dig in and become all consumed. I love the smell of pages, the weight of the story in my hands, the dog-eared corners
- [E-books: a love-hate relationship](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/e-books-a-love-hate-relationship-kim-wilkins/) - E-books are brilliant. I don't like e-books. These two statements sum up my feelings about e-books, and rather than try to resolve the paradox by choosing one side or another, I'm going to let the paradox stand and be a thing in itself. When I am waiting at the doctor's surgery (she's always late, but
- [The Inside Opinion - Exclusive Interview](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-inside-opinion-exclusive-interview-maddie-bradley/) - Everyone remembers their first great book that they ever read, flipping the pages excitedly, imagining the characters inside your head, feeling what they feel, and seeing what they see. Whether it was sci-fi, mystery, romance or comedy, a great book will always remain with you, even if it does change shape, like for instance, becoming
- [Babar Still Loses His Crown](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/barbar-still-loses-his-crown-simone-pakavakis/) - As a small child, maybe aged three or four, I would always be asking my mum or dad to read to me, and more often or not it was Babar Loses His Crown that I requested. Without any open frustration, they would obligingly read this story to me again and again with what felt like
- [Just Tell the Story](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/just-tell-the-story-bruce-pascoe/) - What we do is we have an idea and then we tell someone. If we don’t it stays within the confines of our skull. If we decide to share it with someone else we might dance it, we might sing it, draw it or write it but the transfer of ideas to our fellows is
- [Private Reading, Public Places](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/private-reading-public-places-margo-lanagan/) - The e-reader has transformed genre reading in two ways. It’s on its way to eliminating the storage problems obsessive crime, romance or Western readers have had, the crateloads of novels to be shelved awaiting reading and then to be disposed of once read; that’s one advantage. But the other one is the privacy of the
- [E-Books Are Great, But I Want To Choose My Own Adventure](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/e-books-are-great-but-i-want-to-choose-my-own-adventure-emily-craven/) - Who hasn't read a story where they wished they could actually be inside it? See the landscape for yourself, see how the light falls, the air smells, the noise overwhelms you and see exactly how tall that building was that King Kong just scaled. No, the fancy 4D movie theatre at Movie World is not
- [The Selfish Book](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-selfish-book-bernadette-walker/) - A newspaper here in Hong Kong recently ran a commentary about the children of many of the top executives at hi-tech companies in Silicon Valley –Google, Apple, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard. These children attend the local Waldorf school, a school where computers are not allowed in the classroom, and their use at home is frowned upon. The
- [Legacy reviews of <em>Greylands</em>](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/legacy-reviews-of-greylands/) - Check out the reviews page on the site and enjoy the responses of reviewers to Greylands when it first came out in print version way back when. We are only able to offer them to you courtesy of the Lu Rees Archive at the Canberra Library, which had copies of the reviews in their fabulous
- [Ebooks and Libraries](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ebooks-and-libraries-rebecca-kemble/) - Not long after the explosion of the internet, people began predicting the end of libraries. "Why do we need libraries anymore?" they'd ask. "All the information is out there, on the internet. Soon we won't have any libraries." Along with the idea of the paperless office, this seems to be one of those popular certainties
- [Book Phantoms](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/book-phantoms-catherine-bateson/) - I am the granddaughter of a book collector. He had so many books that when he married my step-grandmother, he had the side verandah of her family house, a house in Vaucluse where she had been born, closed in for his study. Then he installed Compactus shelving to hold his library of maritime and crime
- [Uploading Greylands - The Adventure](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/uploading-greylands-the-adventure/) - The night before last, straddling midnight between yesterday and today (which is almost a metaphorical representation of what we are doing with the eVolution debate on this site), I finally managed to upload Greylands. This was my responsibility entirely, and I felt the weight of it because of all the work Min put into setting
- [The Storymaker](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-storymaker-gary-crew/) - Gary Crew and a motley crew of writers and illustrators working on a special archive project In From the Beast to the Blonde:On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers(1994), Marina Warner claims that 'storytelling... banishes melancholy by refusing silence', and that the story makes people 'thrive'(xi). Kafka argues that as an art form, story is 'An
- [Greylands eBook Launch Day!](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/greylands-ebook-launch/) - Today has been a HUGE day on the site! Aside from a guest post on our eVolution debate by the fabulous Judith Ridge, this evening you will learn the identity of our illustrious guest launcher and get the chance to read her launch speech. Today is also the day the eBook of Greylands goes live
- [I am not a Luddite](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/i-am-not-a-luddite-judith-ridge/) - I swear. I promise. I love my gadgets. I’ve been an enthusiastic up-taker of technology since I first laid eyes on an Apple computer back in 1987. I’ve had around eight Mac computers, desk- and laptops, and numerous iThings; I’ve always upgraded my mobile phone as soon as my contracts allowed—and now my 84 year
- [Picture book apps, children and narrative](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/picture-book-apps-children-and-narrative-virginia-lowe/) - Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit, is a neat little white bound volume which I found fascinating as a child (the series all had spines, like real books!). This universally known story is about four little rabbits, three good, one bad. In many homes, and for over a hundred years, it has been a favourite
- [Who Slew the Paper Book?](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/who-slew-the-paper-book-danel-olson/) - There is no holding back the eBook. When I walk onto a plane, go to a café, look out at my college students before a lecture, they are there to greet me: everyone has an eReader, and is tucking in to a good book. Authors may be queasy about the loss of the paper book,
- [The Understory](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-understory-david-dawkins/) - The books I remember best from my early childhood are my grandfather's set of encyclopaedias, kept hidden away for preservation and doled out per volume when I asked for them (promising to be very careful) when I was becoming a reader. They are now valuable sociological data on 1920s knowledge and the socialisation of that
- [Forgotten ones shuffle to centre stage](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/forgotten-ones-shuffle-to-centre-stage-rosie-borell/) - World famous fantasy author Philip Pullman said it in a way that grabbed my attention immediately, as only a writer can. He was discussing what I will call the 'e-volution' taking place in the book industry. I found him on the internet, talking about the enhanced ebook edition of his work The Good Man Jesus
- [Judging a Book](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/judging-a-book-margaret-dahlstrom/) - Maybe it's true that you can't judge a book by its cover, although personally I think you sometimes can. But I'm quite sure it's true that you can judge a person by their bookshelves: the number of shelves as well as the books on them. And you can get an impression of someone from what
- [More eBook Discussion](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/more-ebook-discussion-links-of-note/) - Links of note Here's our growing list of recommended links and articles and blogs by people on the eVolution of books, such as the brilliant and generous blog by William King which offers his own facts and figures when it comes to ebooks- six months after he began. And any day now, he will post
- [Future trends](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/future-trends-paul-collins/) - These are scary times for writers and publishers. Whereas it's never been easier to get published, conversely it's never been harder to sell. This great divide is expanding exponentially. Take a look at the Al Gore demonstration at Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book. All of this seemed pretty whiz-bang a year ago. Now my
- [Independent Publisher Contact / Review List](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/independent-publisher-contact-review-list/) - Having gathered from comments and discussions on the ever unfolding eVolution forum, that many people lack or have limited knowledge of Indie publishing houses, it occurred to us that it might be useful to invite people to help compile a list of recommendations and to invite comments from those who have experience with them, outlining
- [The New Face of Writing](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/the-new-face-of-writing-tania-sheko/) - When we love to read as young people, or even before this, to be read to as children - we love stories which open up imaginative worlds and connect us to places and people we wouldn't know in real life. Even stories based on fact ignite the reader's imagination, taking the reader to a place
- [Pop-ups, Playaways, and Cruising for Kindles](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/pop-ups-playaways-and-cruising-for-kindles-richard-harland/) - I can't resist starting with a book in a different form that I'm totally in love with—namely, my pop-up book of Bram Stoker's Dracula! When I was in Paris for the Liberator tour, I wandered into a quirky bookshop selling every imaginable art book at a discount price—and I discovered a pop-up version of Dracula
- [Not Picture Books!](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/not-picture-books-helen-chamberlin/) - I am all for E book novels and most nonfiction, if that's what enough people find more convenient to read for whatever reason. The way a piece of writing is read doesn't change the essential nature of the writing itself – it's still words, language, an author's unique viewpoint; still a book; it's still reading.
- [Fear of wearing a suit and other good reasons for saving my job](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/fear-of-wearing-a-suit-and-other-good-reasons-for-saving-my-job-nick-bland/) - I was recently introduced to a well-educated, prolific reader who, in discovering that I was taking a divergence into electronic publishing, proceeded to berate the form as a malevolent force sent to devour our literature and steal our children. She insisted that pixilation rendered the words powerless. Love itself, she seemed to suggest, was contained
- [Stop Press!](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/stop-press/) - All visitor posts to the Great E book Debate will be closely scrutinized by Min Dean and Heather Giles, who will be the daily arbiters-in-turn of the best daily visitor post, to be featured the following day on the homepage and on our facebook page. These posts will become the shortlist from which Min, Heather
- [Back to the Future](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/back-to-the-future-sophie-masson/) - Everyone's been trying to get their heads around the ramifications of e-publishing: authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, readers, governments and institutions. For authors, the possibilities that are presented by e-publishing are dizzying: exciting, but also anxiety-­‐making. I'm not against publishers. In fact I appreciate very much the immense amount of work my publishers do in editing, marketing, distribution, promotion and taking
- [Greylands eBook Launch website](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/greylands-ebook-launch-website/) - This special site with all of its events and attractions, will be live for one month only, starting July 4th. You can tell how many days remain of the month from the counter on the homepage. "[Greylands] was always one of my personal favourites among the books I have written... but it was out of
- [Living Through Interesting Times](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/living-through-interesting-times-alex-adsett/) - It has become more a mantra than even a cliché, but “we’re living in interesting times” is repeatedly chanted by book industry insiders. And aren’t we just! There are more opportunities for writers than ever before. That is, there are more opportunities to write, connect and publish, but realistically, probably no more actual opportunities to
- [The Competition](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/competition/) - All you have to do is to read the daily guest posts and comment as often as you like as visitors, on whichever days you like. Then at the end of the month we will choose three winners whose comments add substantially to the forum. Prizes include a kindle ebook with a free download of
- [Greylands Review - Viewpoint Vol 5 No 3](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/greylands-review-viewpoint-vol-5-no-3/) - Spring 1997 Click the image to view the original review at full size Jack's mother has recently died in circumstances which has left the whole family traumatised, particularly her husband. Ellen, Jack's younger sister, is in the best condition: she is able to talk about her mother's death, she recognises her father's pain, and she
- [Greylands Review - Magpies Vol 12 No 5](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/greylands-review-magpies-vol-12-no-5/) - November 1997 Click the image to view the original review at full size Using symbol and fantasy to explore the inner world of young characters is always a risky business. lf the symbols are too obvious, their potential richness can be overcome by the aridity of allegory in which each symbol has one and only
- [Greyalnds Review - Reading Time Vol 41 No 4](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/greyalnds-review-reading-time-vol-41-no-4/) - November 1997 Click the image to view the original review at full size This is a fascinating, unusual and complex book that takes readers on an extraordinary psychological joumey as two children struggle to make sense oftheirmother's death andtheir father's despair. It is quite beautifully written, with the intricate weaving of many threads using symbols
- [A Maze of Mirrors – Greylands Review by Gillian Rubinstein](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/a-maze-of-mirrors-greylands-review-by-gillian-rubinstein/) - October 1997 Click the image to view page 1 of the original review at full size SOME YEARS AGO I was asked in an interview if I had any particular ambition, and I remember answering that I would like to write a classic fantasy for ten to twelve year olds: the sort of book I
- [Penguin Presents Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/penguin-presents-isobelle-carmody/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsKZow5ZBSE&feature=youtu.be Penguin Presents takes a look into the life and writing of Isobelle Carmody in her beautiful hometown of Apollo Bay. Isobelle talks about her writing, drawing and life with her family in the lead up to the much anticipated sixth book in The Obernewtyn Chronicles, The Sending. Music kindly provided by Jan Stolba: http://www.jan-stolba.eu/en/ via

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- [Isobelle Carmody, Award-winning Australian Speculative Fiction Writer](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/) - Isobelle Carmody is an Internationally-recognised Australian author and illustrator with a PhD in Creative Arts and over forty published books to her name...
- [Mt Hotham (Victoria) Writing Retreats](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/writing-mentorships/mt-hotham-victoria-writing-retreats/) - Isobelle offers three special individual five-day and two-day intensive residential mentorships on Mt Hotham each year, usually in June. The host lodge is one Isobelle has written at year after year and she will begin a new work during this period. The mentorship will take place just before the snow season. There may be snow
- [Peregian Beach (Queensland) Writing Retreats](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/writing-mentorships/peregian-beach-queensland-writing-retreats/) - This large and wonderful accommodation near the beach can fit two mentees, three if two are willing to twin share. There will be a saving involved, of course. Retreat will be largely vegetarian, but you can opt out and self-cater some or all days if you prefer once you see the menu. We can also
- [Writing Retreats](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/writing-mentorships/) - Writing is inevitably a lonely business, but in my life, the companionship of other writers has been invaluable. Conversations and strategising sessions with writers, the comparison of ideas and the need to express and explain a project and its challenges, philosophising about writing are a vital part of the process of creation, for me. I
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/about-isobelle-carmody/frequently-asked-questions/) - Here you will find some of the more commonly asked questions and their answers. If you have a question you would like answered, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page, and we'll either reply to you or add it to this list.
- [About Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/about-isobelle-carmody/) - Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia's most beloved and awarded fantasy authors, who over the years has grown to treasure not only writing but illustration...
- [Contact](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/contact/) - Isobelle is available for talks and workshops both in person and on zoom. If you would like to invite Isobelle to speak at your library, school or event feel free to reach out via the form below. If you have a question for Isobelle, try looking for the answer on the Frequently Asked Questions page
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- [Books by Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/books-by-isobelle-carmody/) - Isobelle Carmody has written over 40 books, who's genres range through fantasy, science fiction and horror, with a variety of formats including picture books and graphic novels. As a testament to her skill and creativity she has won several grants from the Australia council, including support for a period at the Kessing writers' studio in
- [Awards & Accolades](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/about-isobelle-carmody/awards-accolades/) - Awards Aurealis awards: Green Monkey Dreams, YA short story, 1997 Greylands, YA novel, 1998 Dream Walker (by IC, illustrated by Steven Wollman), YA short story, 2002 Alyzon Whitestarr, Golden Aurealis novel, 2006 Alyzon Whitestarr, YA novel, 2006 The Children's Book Council of Australia Awards: The Red Wind, Younger Readers Book of the Year, 2011 The
- [PhD Topic](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/about-isobelle-carmody/phd-topic/) - Opening abstract taken from Isobelle Carmody's PhD: This thesis explores the complementarity of the literary modes of realism and the Fantastic by means of the...
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## Books/Series

- [Comes the Night](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/comes-the-night/) - Will slipped on the left glove and twitched a finger to establish a link to the kite tronics. A shiver of electric energy ran through his hands as they synched to his nerves through the gloves. Will lives with his father in a future domed Canberra where citizens are safe from extreme weather events, dangerous
- [Evermore](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/evermore/) - Ruled by a tyrannical and all powerful despot, the Kingdom of Evermore survives and sometimes thrives in an otherwise devastated world of deserts and ruins inhabited by the plague-ridden descendants of those who chose not to sleep away the poisoned eons that followed the end of the old world. Growing up under the watchful eye
- [Tales from the Tower](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/tales-from-the-tower/) - Edited by Isobelle Carmody and Nan McNab Twelve of the world's most exciting and best-loved writers have chosen fairytales as inspiration for this spellbinding and subversive short-story collection. 'The writers in The Wilful Eye imbue all of their characters, including the villains, with a deep sense of psychological realism, producing often tender, engaging, and insightful results.
- [The Landlord](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/the-landlord/) - Illustrated by Ken Carmody When a mysterious entrepreneur, known simply as “the Landlord”, takes over a derelict theatre, Abel and his strange, brilliant friend, Egon, are fascinated by its transformation into an Ultimate Entertainment Centre. As Abel begins to notice that more sinister changes are happening around town as well, Egon sees nothing but the
- [The Red Shoes](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/the-red-shoes/) - Illustrated by Anne Spudvilas When Amerie was four, her mother vanished. Just before her eighth birthday, Amerie finds a mysterious gift hidden at the back of the bookshelf. The clues she finds in it send her on a search which leads her to the forbidden attic and a dangerous secret…
- [Night School](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/night-school/) - Illustrated by Anne Spudvilas A group of children spend the night in a big old school and go on a chilling journey of self-discovery when they decide to play a game. They must travel from room to room, picking up a lantern and writing down their names to ward off the dark. But the old
- [The Wrong Thing](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/the-wrong-thing/) - Illustrated by Declan Lee There’s a wrong thing in the house while everybody’s sleeping. There’s a wrong thing flying around on wings of light. Hurricane, the cat, is the only one that sees it. Just what could it be? Flying here, flying there, this flittery, skittery thing! There’s no place for it here in this
- [Journey From the Centre of the Earth](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/journey-from-the-centre-of-the-earth/) - Illustrated by Marc McBride What ever happened to the duck that was left swimming around on that dark, cold lake, deep under the ground, in Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth? Be swallowed up by this fascinating ‘what if’ tale.
- [Wildheart](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/wildheart/) - Illustrated by Steven Woolman He has a way with animals, so that whatever beast he touches, he knows, and it will come to him. His mother fears what others may do if they learn of it. One day riders arrive with a hooded falcon, Wildheart, and he has a growing yearning to touch her –
- [Dreamwalker](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/dreamwalker/) - Illustrated by Steven Woolman Ken’s ambition was to be a comic-book artist, one of a team that made the drawings come to life, that made the stories real. His greatest creation was the sorceress, whose deadly hungers visited sleepers and fed upon them. But one day he woke from a dream and found himself in
- [Metro Winds](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/metro-winds/) - An engrossing collection of stories from one of Australia's most loved fantasy writers, and creator of the acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles. A girl is sent across the world to discover her destiny in the dark tunnels of the Metro. Another seeks a lost sister in a park where winter lasts forever. A young man fulfils a
- [Alyzon Whitestarr](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/alyzon-whitestarr/) - A finger on my eye, lifting the lid. Light spearing into my brain, but the touch is worse. Despair leaks from the fingertips and burns into me. Alyzon Whitestarr is part of a caring if eccentric family that consists of her absent-minded and nocturnal mother, her sweet-natured musician father and her two sisters Mirandah and
- [The Gateway Trilogy](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/the-gateway-trilogy/) - Rage Winnoway is an independent and introspective teenage girl who's closest friends are her four pet dogs and goat. She must travel through multiple portals to wild and dangerous places in order to save her mother from a deep coma that has arrested her life, and later to rescue the land of Valley from a
- [This Way Out: Five Plays](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/this-way-out-five-plays/) - Written with Steve Taylor Isobelle Carmody, whose novels and short stories have been published to much acclaim, and Steve Taylor, playwright, producer and director of many successful stage works, have combined their talents to produce these five thought-provoking plays. Moving freely between reality and fantasy, three have been adapted from Carmody’s short story collection, Green
- [Green Monkey Dreams](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/green-monkey-dreams/) - I ride this day upon the worldroad, alone, except for Courage who rides on the pommel of my saddle fluffing his feathers. I did not dream of journeying thus as a child… This is the unforgettable world of Isobelle Carmody, presented in fourteen stories written over a period of thirteen years. Within these stories you
- [The Gathering](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/the-gathering/) - When Nathanial and his mother move to the quiet, safe streets of Cheshunt, he immediately senses something wrong. Violent gangs patrol the streets, feral dogs roam at night, and the oppressive stench from the abattoir lingers over the school. As Nathaniel uncovers Cheshunt's dark past, events begin spiralling desperately out of control. He soon learns
- [Scatterlings](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/scatterlings/) - Merlin wakes to a world that is utterly changed. She has no memory aside from a name whispered to her by one of the strange voices in her mind, and the knowledge that she is being hunted. She is determined to learn what happened to her and to her world but the way forward is
- [Greylands](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/greylands/) - One wakeful night in the aftermath of his mother’s death, Jack enters a land devoid of colour or scent. Here he meets the tragic laughing beast and Alice, a strange girl with a secret. Will Jack escape before the terrifying wolvers find him? Or is he destined to be trapped in the Greylands forever? Only
- [Kingdom of the Lost](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/kingdom-of-the-lost/) - Bily and Zluty are brothers, they have large upright ears and are covered in thick soft fur apart from their faces which have human-like features. They live contentedly in a cozy cottage in the middle of a desolate land, Bily tending to their dwellings and Zluty foraging for supplies. The brothers are unaware of their
- [The Legend of Little Fur](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/the-legend-of-little-fur/) - The Legend of Little Fur series blends fantasy, mythology, adventure and ecology. This beautifully bound hardcover with a soft felt finish features original ink illustrations by Isobelle Carmody. Little Fur is a half elf, half troll and though she looks more like a four-year-old child she is much older. She lives as an animal healer
- [The Obernewtyn Chronicles](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/the-obernewtyn-chronicles/) - The Obernewtyn Chronicles is a series of science fiction and fantasy novels by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. The series has a post apocalyptic setting and depicts a world long after its destruction by a global nuclear holocaust. The series' protagonist, Elspeth Gordie, is a young girl with mental powers condemned by the series' main antagonists,
- [The Legendsong Saga](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/ic-books-series/the-legendsong-saga/) - The Legendsong Saga encompasses the novels Darkfall and Darksong which centre on the adventures of Glynn and Ember Flanders in a parallel universe. Glynn and Ember Flanders, fraternal twin sisters, are holidaying in Greece when Glynn is seemingly swept out to sea and drowned. However Glynn finds herself transported to the world of Keltor and

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## Events

- [South Coast Readers and Writers’ Festival](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/south-coast-readers-and-writers-festival/) - The South Coast Readers & Writers Festival returns to Thirroul over the weekend of 5–6 July 2025 with a vibrant lineup of literary talent, from rising stars to international bestsellers. With headlining authors CHARLOTTE McCONAGHY (Wild Dark Shore), ISOBELLE CARMODY (Comes the Night), PIP WILLIAMS (The Bookbinder of Jericho), KATE FORSYTH (Psykhe), NIKKI GEMMELL (Wing),
- [Climate Futures: Writing YA (Isobelle Carmody, Helena Fox & Dr Christine Howe)](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/climate-futures-writing-ya/) - Isobelle Carmody’s latest book, Comes the Night, is set in the near future of a dystopian Canberra. Helena Fox’s award-winning second novel, The Quiet and the Loud, explores coming of age against the backdrop of the 2019 bushfires. They sit down with Dr Christine Howe to talk about writing YA fiction in an uncertain climate
- [Fantasy & Mythology (Isobelle Carmody, Kate Forsyth & A.L. Tait)](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/fantasy-mythology-isobelle-carmody-kate-forsyth-a-l-tait/) - Isobelle Carmody and Kate Forsyth are multi award-winning, bestselling, and beloved names within the Australian fantasy genre. They are joined by A.L. Tait to discuss writing fantasy, mythology, and their latest novels, Comes the Night and Psykhe.
- [Compelling Fantasy Worlds: South Coast Readers and Writers’ Festival Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/compelling-fantasy-worlds-south-coast-readers-and-writers-festival-workshop/) - Join renowned author Isobelle Carmody in a Fantasy workshop that will guide you through the process of building a world from the character out, creating settings that serve to advance their story, rather than merely decorating it. Isobelle Carmody spends much of her time travelling. Although she has been writing fantasy set in other worlds
- [2025 Writers Mountain Retreat](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/2025-writers-mountain-retreat/) - Once a year I go up Mt Hotham in Victoria for a week, on retreat with a group. We bring our own food and cook for ourselves, sometimes together sometimes separately, except for the first night when I cook for us. We have this year nominated September 20 – 28 as our retreat dates. We
- [Graphic Storytelling with Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/graphic-storytelling-with-isobelle-carmody/) - Award winning Author Isobelle Carmody travels a lot and not just in a geographical sense. She has also travelled through many different genres while following the story road. She began to illustrate her own work twenty years into a career made of words and found there were new stories she could tell with a combination
- [Crafting Worlds, Shaping Futures](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/crafting-worlds-shaping-futures/) - Free, but you need to book. Join Isobelle Carmody, one of Australia's most celebrated fantasy authors, for an author talk. Known for her Obernewtyn Chronicles, isobelle began writing the series at just fourteen, launching her into the world of speculative fiction. Her works, including The Gathering, Greylands, and The Legend of Little Fur, are award-winning
- [Sorrento Writers Festival: Imagination On Steroids](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/sorrento-writers-festival-imagination-on-steroids/) - Speculative fiction, magic realism, fantasy and imaginary worlds in fiction. Room Two, Sorrento Masonic Centre 3385 Point Nepean Road, Sorrento Isobelle Carmody, Finegan Kruckemeyer and Marion Taffe with Seth Robinson Moderator: Seth Robinson Speakers: Isobelle Carmody, Finegan Kruckemeyer, Marion Taffe (covered by your festival fee)
- [Express Year of the Novel 2025 with Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/express-year-of-the-novel-2025-with-isobelle-carmody-5/) - Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre's flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops
- [Express Year of the Novel 2025 with Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/express-year-of-the-novel-2025-with-isobelle-carmody-4/) - Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre's flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops
- [Express Year of the Novel 2025 with Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/express-year-of-the-novel-2025-with-isobelle-carmody-3/) - Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre's flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops
- [Express Year of the Novel 2025 with Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/express-year-of-the-novel-2025-with-isobelle-carmody-2/) - Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre's flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops
- [Express Year of the Novel 2025 with Isobelle Carmody](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/express-year-of-the-novel-2025-with-isobelle-carmody/) - Make 2025 your year – get the tools and support you need to complete the first draft of your novel, in the express version of Queensland Writers Centre's flagship program for emerging writers. Year of the Novel returns to finally get your book out of your head and onto the page! Attend five full-day workshops
- [Welcome to The Great Kite Auction](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/welcome-to-the-great-kite-auction/) - Kite Reveals: from 27 October Bidding starts: from 27 November Inspired by an aspect of her new book Comes the Night, Isobelle Carmody has organised this beautiful creative event, designed to produce some wonderful art that highlights and celebrates some of Australians best known and loved illustrators and artists, while raising funds for Red Kite.
- [December Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/december-writing-workshop-3/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [November Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/november-writing-workshop-3/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [October Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/october-writing-workshop-3/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [September Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/september-writing-workshop-3/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [August Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/august-writing-workshop-3/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [July Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/july-writing-workshop-3/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [June Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/june-writing-workshop-3/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [May Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/may-writing-workshop-3/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [April Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/april-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [March Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/march-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [February Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/february-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [January Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/january-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [December Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/december-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [November Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/november-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [October Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/october-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [September Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/september-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [August Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/august-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [July Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/july-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [June Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/june-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [May Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/may-writing-workshop-2/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [What Would You Stand For?](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/what-would-you-stand-for/) - Join Australian author and activist Isobelle Carmody as she explores the concept of Protest in her installation work ‘What Would You Stand For?’ Ideas and means of protest have continuously evolved over the years. From the elderly to school children, all age demographics now take part in protest, and the forms of protest have changed
- [April Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/april-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [January Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/january-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [March Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/march-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [February Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/february-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [December Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/december-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [November Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/november-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [October Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/october-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [Peregian Beach (Queensland) - 3 day writing retreat](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/peregian-beach-queensland-3-day-writing-retreat/) - During the retreat, most of your time will be spent working alone on your piece. Mid-afternoon each day, I will meet with each mentee to talk about your writing, and project. In the evenings, we will read from the works in progress or other writing and discuss it. We will listen to some essays about
- [Peregian Beach (Queensland) - 5 day writing retreat](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/peregian-beach-queensland-5-day-writing-retreat/) - During the week, most of your time will be spent working alone on your piece. Mid-afternoon each day, I will meet with each mentee to talk about your writing, and project. In the evenings, we will read from the works in progress or other writing and discuss it. We will listen to some essays about
- [May Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/may-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [June Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/june-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [July Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/july-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [August Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/august-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [September Writing Workshop](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/september-writing-workshop/) - Free for Patreon supporters, via Zoom. We meet anywhere between 1-2hrs each time, and both discuss aspects of writing and also complete writing exercises together. Writing work is shared via Google docs. Meetings are recorded in case you can't make it. It you're interested in joining, sign up to Isobelle's Patreon for as little as
- [Oz Comic-Con Homegrown: Brisbane](https://isobellecarmody.net.au/event/oz-comic-con-homegrown-brisbane/) - Isobelle will be at Oz-Comic Con Brisbane! Oz Comic-Con welcomes fans of all ages, interests and pop-obsessions with a truly immersive experience across two fun-filled days. Whether you’re a Muggle, a Marshmallow, an Earper, a Jedi, a Whovian or someone who doesn’t understand a word we just said, as long as you love popular culture

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