February Orange Salon
An invitation to attend the February Orange Salon with special guest Kathleen Jennings
We’re thrilled to invite you to attend the February Orange Salon, with special guest Kathleen Jennings. The salon will take place online (via Zoom), and will include an interactive workshop led by Kathleen, ideal for writers at any stage of their development.
The salon is available to all paid subscribers, who can either attend live, or view the recording at a later time. You can also access the salon using a single-use unlock, if you have one.
When?
10:00 am, Saturday, 21 February (Brisbane/Sydney/AEST)
You can use this online meeting planner to work out what time that is wherever you are!
Where?
Online via zoom: the link will go out to all subscribers two hours prior to the session.
What?
In this workshop, internationally published and awarded writer and illustrator Kathleen Jennings will guide you through teasing out strong classic visuals and themes from your favourite stories. You will then experiment with recombining them to deepen and enliven reworked and original narrative writing (and imagery), working both individually and collaboratively.
This workshop is suitable for aspiring and established writers and illustrators.
Learning outcomes
Participants will learn:
to identify why some scenes are classics (or mythic) for a reason
to follow your fascinations in order to discover new narrative techniques and templates
a sideways approach to analysing narratives and images
techniques for deepening narratives (and spinning up new ones)
Who?
Our salon guest for February 2026 is the magical writer and artist, Kathleen Jennings.
Kathleen Jennings is an illustrator and writer based in Brisbane, Australia. As an illustrator, she has won one World Fantasy Award (and been a finalist three other times), and has been shortlisted once for the Hugos, and once for the Locus Awards, as well as winning a number of Ditmars. As a writer, she has won a British Fantasy Award (the Sydney J Bounds Award) and two Ditmars and been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Awards, the Locus Awards, the Courier-Mail People’s Choice Book of the Year Award, the Crawford Award, the Australian Shadows Award, the Eugie Foster Memorial Award, and several Aurealis Awards. She has an MPhil and a PhD in Creative Writing.