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Isobel Blackthorn is a British author of fiction and biography. She is best known for her work on Western esotericism and the theosophist Alice A. Bailey. Blackthorn has written more than twenty-five books. Her novel The Cabin Sessions has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award (2018) and the Ditmar Award (2018).
Isobel Blackthorn was born in Farnborough, Kent, England. She has lived in England, Australia, Spain and the Canary Islands. She studied Social Studies and graduated with a First Class Honours degree.
She later completed a PhD at the University of Western Sydney for her research on Alice A. Bailey. Her thesis has been downloaded around 12,000 times.
Blackthorn wrote her first book, Voltaire's Garden, in 2008. The memoir tells the story of building a sustainable lifestyle B&B in Cobargo, Australia. The town later gained international attention when it was destroyed by a firestorm on New Year's Eve 2019.
The biographical short story Nothing to Declare, which became the first chapter of Emma's Tapestry, was shortlisted for the Ada Cambridge Prose Prize (2019). A Prison in the Sun has been shortlisted in the LGBTQ category of the Readers' Favourite Book Awards (2020) and the International Book Awards (2021).
The Unlikely Occultist: A Biographical Novel by Alice A. Bailey received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards. She is also the author of Alice A. Bailey: Life & Legacy, the only biography of the Theosophist.
Blackthorn has contributed to magazines and websites worldwide, including Esoteric Quarterly, New Dawn Magazine, Paranoia and Mused Literary Review. She has reviewed books for New Dawn Magazine, Shiny New Books and Australian Women Writers. In 2020, she was a judge for the Australasian Shadow Awards in the long fiction category.
Blackthorn lived in Lanzarote in the late 1980s and has strong links with the Canary Islands. In 1999, she founded Ghana Link, a project linking a privileged state school in England with a school in the Upper Volta region of Ghana. She has worked as a teacher, market trader and PA to a literary agent. She began writing in her forties, and her stories reflect her varied experiences.
Isobel Blackthorn has performed at literary events and run creative writing workshops. She now lives in Spain.
Photo credit: isobelblackthorn.com
Isobel Blackthorn was born in Farnborough, Kent, England. She has lived in England, Australia, Spain and the Canary Islands. She studied Social Studies and graduated with a First Class Honours degree.
She later completed a PhD at the University of Western Sydney for her research on Alice A. Bailey. Her thesis has been downloaded around 12,000 times.
Blackthorn wrote her first book, Voltaire's Garden, in 2008. The memoir tells the story of building a sustainable lifestyle B&B in Cobargo, Australia. The town later gained international attention when it was destroyed by a firestorm on New Year's Eve 2019.
The biographical short story Nothing to Declare, which became the first chapter of Emma's Tapestry, was shortlisted for the Ada Cambridge Prose Prize (2019). A Prison in the Sun has been shortlisted in the LGBTQ category of the Readers' Favourite Book Awards (2020) and the International Book Awards (2021).
The Unlikely Occultist: A Biographical Novel by Alice A. Bailey received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards. She is also the author of Alice A. Bailey: Life & Legacy, the only biography of the Theosophist.
Blackthorn has contributed to magazines and websites worldwide, including Esoteric Quarterly, New Dawn Magazine, Paranoia and Mused Literary Review. She has reviewed books for New Dawn Magazine, Shiny New Books and Australian Women Writers. In 2020, she was a judge for the Australasian Shadow Awards in the long fiction category.
Blackthorn lived in Lanzarote in the late 1980s and has strong links with the Canary Islands. In 1999, she founded Ghana Link, a project linking a privileged state school in England with a school in the Upper Volta region of Ghana. She has worked as a teacher, market trader and PA to a literary agent. She began writing in her forties, and her stories reflect her varied experiences.
Isobel Blackthorn has performed at literary events and run creative writing workshops. She now lives in Spain.
Photo credit: isobelblackthorn.com
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