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 of words and images. She has worked with artists on graphic novels and while doing her PhD kept a graphic journal which will be published as The Journey of Art and Hope. Her most recent project is merging her art with another illustrator to produce a Little Fur graphic novel called Saltsong.

She is offering a masterclass workshop that will introduce those wanting foray into the world of words and images to the many different ways words can be enhanced by images. Those attending will learn how to create images that work even if they (think they) can't draw, and they will come away with a basic understanding of how a graphic novel works.

About the Presenter

Isobelle Carmody is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's and juvenile literature. She divides her time between a home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia and her travels abroad.

Isobelle began work on the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles when she was just fourteen years old. The first two books in the Obernewtyn series were short listed for the CBC Children’s Book of the Year in the Older Readers category; Scatterlings won Talking book of the Year. The Gathering was a joint winner of the 1993 CBC Book of the Year Award and the 1994 Children's Literature Peace Prize. Greylands won an Aurealis Award and a White Raven at Bologna, while Billy Thunder and the Night Gate was shortlisted for the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature in the 2001 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Both Little Fur and A Fox Called Sorrow received BAAFTA Industry Awards for design. Alyzon Whitestarr won the coveted Golden Aurealis for overall best novel at the Aurealis Awards. The Red Wind which she wrote and illustrated, won Book of the Year in the CBC awards, in the Younger readers category.

Her most recent published novel is, Comes the Night. She is currently working on a graphic journal and the last in The Legendsong Series, Darkbane.

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