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✨Author, Storyteller, Book Lover✨
I spin history, folklore & myths into spellbinding new tales.
BOOKS: The Changeling, Psykhe, Bitter Greens & more

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And that's a wrap on our 2026 retreats! To everyone who wrote with us in Paris and the Cotswolds, and who walked the gardens of southeast England with us this autumn on our travelling bookclub: thank you. Stay tuned for our 2027 programmes, we have lots of great things in store ✨

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It's a very rare in-person event!!! 🫶 As many of you know, I paused in-person events years ago, to ease the working mama juggle ... but I bloody love a library (especially when it's practically on my doorstep!)

South Coasties, join me for MEMOIR MAGIC on 13 July at Kiama Library. All the details below. It's going to be a blast.

🌟 Amy Molloy: Memoir magic 🌟
Next date: Friday, 13 November 2026 | 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM

Learn how to recognise the value in your own life experiences, the healing power of sharing your story, and how to respect your own boundaries as a storyteller to write a story with impact.

Amy Molloy is an award-winning journalist, editor and author, and the writer behind the hit mental health podcast The Space. With more than eight million downloads, hundreds of thousands of books sold, and a fiercely loyal following, she is best known for her unflinching portrayal of mental health issues – and for bringing the world along on her own unorthodox journey from widowhood to hope.

This event is part of our Novel November Writing Workshops series.

For adults 15+, $35 per session. All materials and tea and coffee are provided.

Book online via the Kiama Library website or call 02 4233 1133.

https://library.kiama.nsw.gov.au/Events/Adults-events/Novel-November-2026/Amy-Molloy-Memoir-magic

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If your novel tends to stall somewhere around the 40,000-word mark, Kate Forsyth has some advice for getting it moving again.

In this video in the new Ask Kate series from @writerscentreau, internationally bestselling author @kate_forsyth_ explains why some writers run out of ideas and energy in the middle of a novel, and what she does to keep going when inspiration isn't there.

Have you ever got stuck halfway through a manuscript? Tell us how you got through it in the comments.

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SESSION SPOTLIGHT | Past Perspective: Bringing History to Life
Studio 34 | Sun 8 Nov, 3:30–4:30pm

Historical fiction lets us escape into other worlds and learn about our own along the way. Join three outstanding novelists as they take us from the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, to the Torres Strait in the 1930s, to Scotland’s first witch trials:

🖋 Emma Pei Yin, When Sleeping Women Wake
🖋 Lenora Thaker, The Pearl of Tagai Town
🖋 Kate Forsyth, The Changeling

Moderated by Suzanne Burdon (Almost Invincible), this conversation explores the resilience and resistance of their protagonists, and the depth of research it takes to bring them so fully to life on the page.

🏆 Congratulations, Lenora! The Pearl of Tagai Town has just won the 2026 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for a Work of State Significance. Lenora is the first Torres Strait Islander writer to receive this award with her debut novel.

A Meriam and Wagedagam woman from Gimuy (Cairns), Lenora writes short stories and longer narratives that weave in Torres Strait Islander languages and shine a light on stories still too rarely told in Australian literature.

🎟 Tickets via the link in bio
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#BerryWritersFestival #HistoricalFiction #QldPremiersLiteraryAwards #TorresStraitIslander #AusLit #BerryNSW

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Magic happens every day. We just don’t call it that. 🕯️

At Witch, Hate, Love, Charlie Jane Anders and Kate Forsyth talked about women stepping fully into who they are. The moment that stayed with me was about children finally seeing their mothers as people. Who they are, and who they were before they became “Mum”.

That’s part of what gave Finding Your Thing its place in the world. It sits on the other side of whatever has filled your life so far, where there’s finally time and space to think about the dreams you had about who you could be.

Maybe life moved those dreams aside, for all sorts of reasons. Maybe you lived them, and now you’re asking what comes next. Either way, there’s more ahead.
Find your thing. Make sure you’re living the life you want.

What’s something about your mum you only understood once you were grown? 👇

This session was recorded live for the Secrets from the Green Room podcast, and I’ll share the link when it’s out.

More from the festival all week, and a walk this Sunday 25 October. Details on What’s On (link in bio).

#findingyourthing #cbrwritersfest #witchhatelove

@cbrwritersfest
@charliejaneanders
@kate_forsyth_
@karen_viggers
@irma.gold

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Create the primary sources of the future. ✉️

That line from the For the Love of Letters session at the National Library stopped me. I’d never thought of letters as what historians will rely on to understand us.

Three things I’m taking away:

💌 There’s something wonderful about your words in your own handwriting. It’s unmistakably you.

💌 A letter can bring real comfort in hard times.

💌 I want to write more of them.

I’m chatting with @blue.door.books in Yass about how we might spread the practice of letter writing together. Watch this space. 💌

Want to hear more? Comment LETTERS and I’ll keep you posted. 👇

And a walk this Sunday 25 October and also a Paing and Pinot session. Details on What’s On (link in bio).

#findingyourthing #cbrwritersfest #sundayletterproject
@cbrwritersfest

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Before Kate Forsyth writes a single word of a new novel, she already knows roughly how long it will be and how many chapters it will have.

In this video in the new Ask Kate series from @writerscentreau, internationally bestselling author @kate_forsyth_ explains why she plans her word count in advance and how it can help stop a story from running out of control. She also shares the numbers she usually aims for in her historical novels.

Kate shares more of her planning techniques in her Plotting and Planning course with the Australian Writers' Centre. You can find all of Kate's courses at writerscentre.com.au/kate

Do you plan your word count before you start, or do you work it out as you go? Tell us in the comments.

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Kate Forsyth has been collecting books about writing for nearly as long as she's wanted to be a writer, and she has seven firm favourites.

In this first video in the new Ask Kate series from @writerscentreau, internationally bestselling author @kate_forsyth_ shares the craft books she lives and dies by. Her list includes a slim classic that still gives her a writing mantra, a Margaret Atwood book she's read many times, and one by an author who shares her surname but is no relation.

Which book about writing would make your list? Tell us in the comments.

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I had an absolutely wonderful Sunday at the @cbrwritersfest - I took my (almost 13 yr old) daughter and we started the day having breakfast at @rosascbr with @dbinks , followed by a walk through the rose gardens to
✨ @naagovau for events with @jaclynmoriarty @garthnixauthor & @kate_forsyth_ @pipwilliams_author Alex Sloan
✨ @nationallibraryaus for @amiekaufmanauthor in convo with @kaaron_warren
✨ @portraitau for @putnisandra with @_elainecastillo & Beejay Silcox,
✨ closed the day with a quick drink at Bookplate cafe while we listened to the top 10 of @abcradionational's top 100australian books countdown.

I can't even start to say how grateful I am for all the amazing experiences I had over the festival weekend - massive thanks to the CWF team and all the artists and volunteers who made it happen... Let's do it again next year? X

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The Canberra Writer’s Festival is over for another year and I'm still buzzing over it all!

I went to 7 events over the 4 days and I wish I could have gone to more. I also wish I could have been in 2 places at once as there were so many great options. What an amazing experience.

Highlights? So many! It was like Book Christmas!

Hearing from incredible authors such Andrew O’Hagan, Pip Williams, Inga Simpson, Jaclyn Moriarty, Emma Grey, Elaine Castillo and many more.

Catching up with my lovely book friends @where.the.books.go @hinda.sherwood @bookishbron

Running into multiple former workmates. It was an APS reunion.

Meeting Beejay Silcox my new favourite literary critic 🥰

In short I had the best time. I was inspired and filled with the joy of reading. Congratulations @cbrwritersfest you knocked it out of the park!

#cbrwritersfestival #ninareads #ninareadsbooks #canberragalreadsbooks

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Thank you to the wonderful team at @penguinbooksaus for sending me an ARC and goodies for THE CHANGELING by @kate_forsyth_ - a spell-binding historical fantasy that you can pick up now! 🍃✨🧚

blurb 👇 my review 👉

What’s your favourite time/era in history to read stories set in? ⏳🌎

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Set against Scotland’s first witch-hunt, a young woman with faery blood must defy two queens to survive love, magic and treachery.

On her fourteenth birthday, Caiti NicNeven discovers her true mother is the queen of the Sidhe, the faery folk who dwell beneath Scotland’s hollow hills. Bound by ancient grievance, the faery queen demands Caiti become the instrument of her revenge against the mortal crown stolen a thousand years before.

Drawing on a dangerous magic she barely understands, Caiti flees. She finds refuge at the treacherous court of Mary, Queen of Scots. As fear and religious fervour grip the country, Mary is pressured into passing an Anti-Witchcraft Act, placing every woman – and every whispered spell – in peril.

Watching from the shadows, the faery queen tightens her hold. When Caiti falls in love with Robbie, the son of a local laird, her mother strikes, cursing him to dance himself to death beneath the faery moon.
To save the man she loves, Caiti must cross into the faery realm and confront the mother who would destroy her – and claim a wild, dangerous magic of her own.

Inspired by the true story of Scotland’s first witch-hunt, The Changeling is a spellbinding tale of witchcraft, forbidden love and defying fate.

#thechangeling #kateforsyth #historicalfantasy #historicalfiction #bookreview

My thoughts 💭

This is the first book I’ve read by Kate Forsyth and WOOOW! Her writing is absolutely enchanting and totally transportive. It reminds a bit of Maggie O’Farrell with a little extra magic and that is high praise! The second I finished reading I just thought “I need to read that again”. This is a classic fantasy take on faeries and it is a must-read for readers who yearn for old-school fantasy world-building that is still really accessible and hard to find on the new release table.

Caiti is one of the best protagonists I’ve read in a long time!! There is

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It is always a joy to share the stage with my dear friend and podcast co-host Karen Viggers, but then to also be joined by Aussie superstar Kate Forsyth and US superstar Charlie Jane Anders made this the most fun.

We chatted about witchy women, hate and fear, love and desire, and the ways in which books can change the world.

The Canberra Writers Festival recorded the session so we’ll be bringing it to you on the podcast very soon. Stay tuned!

@karen_viggers @secretsfromthegreenroom @kate_forsyth_ @charliejaneanders @cbrwritersfest @putnisandra #witchywomen #witch #literaryfestival #canberra #writinglife

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