‘I am famously fascinated by fairy tales – I love their wild beauty and their hidden claws.’
In this engaging and eye-opening 4 hour session, Kate explores her own fascination with fairy tales, their long dark history and hidden meanings, and why they continue to speak so potently to so many people. Fairy tales are the oldest of all narrative arts, expressing in symbolic language some of the most significant crises of human life, the desires and fears we all share. Kate will share some of the ways she draws upon their mythic power in her own work, and gladly answer any questions you may have about ways to use fairy tales in narrative therapy, storytelling, and your own creative endeavours. All are welcome to attend.
ABOUT
DR KATE FORSYTH is an award-winning author, poet, and storyteller. Her most recent novels include The Changeling, a story of love, magic and treachery set during the first Scottish witch-hunt; Psykhe, a feminist reimagining of the ancient myth of ‘Eros and Psykhe’; The Wild Girl, the story of the forbidden romance behind the Grimm brothers’ fairy tales which was named Most Memorable Love Story of 2013; and Bitter Greens, a retelling of ‘Rapunzel’ which won the 2015 American Library Association award for Best Historical Fiction. Books for children include Kate Forsyth’s Long-Lost Fairy-Tales, illustrated by Lorena Carrington, which was an Honour Book in the 2025 CBCA awards.
Kate has a Doctorate of Creative Arts in fairy tale studies and is also an accredited master storyteller with the Australian Guild of Storytellers. She runs creative writing retreats and literary tours in the Cotswolds, Greece, Scotland and the South-east of England, and has lectured in fairy tales all over the world.
