Carole Kelly’s bites of fiction dive mercilessly into the gristle of dysfunctional relationships and flawed thinking, while relentlessly pulling you deeper through the dimensions of reality.. before her twists of plot spit you out on the other side.
Carole has been writing for most of her life. Her first published work was ‘Cerelia’, a dystopian post-holocaust fiction, which is included in the anthology ‘The Four Season Project’, released in 2022. She has since been published in several other anthologies, including in 2024, ‘Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies‘, and ‘Monsterthology 3‘.
Her writing has been compared to that of Roald Dahl, Katherine Mansfield and Margaret Atwood.
She is one of the judges for The Aurealis Awards 2024, in the Horror Short Story category.
As a Masters qualified psychotherapist specialising in Relationship Counselling, Carole brings multidimensional characters and their complex relationships to life in her stories.
Carole was born in New Zealand and lived both there and the UK, before settling in Australia.
Her early jobs included window dressing, debt collection and working for the British Civil Service, before pursuing a career as a complementary therapist.
In Australia, Carole extended her allied health practice, moving into grief & trauma and relationship counselling, and completed a Master’s in Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy.
Carole’s newest project, Black, no sugar is a library of short stories, all craftily written and very, very dark…
Visit the ‘‘Black no sugar’ website.’
