Fiction

Kate’s novel, Keep Walking, Rhona Beech (Abacus) came out in 2019. The novel’s first edition, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking (Cargo) had five stars on Amazon since 2014. Her short stories are collected in, Kissing Lying Down (Picón, 2022), and first appeared in journals such as, The Brooklyn Review, The Texas Review and Broadkill.

Poetry

Her entry was in the shortlist of an established UK poetry prize in 2022 (under a pen name), and Kate’s piece, ‘People Made Glasgow’, was selected as a Best Scottish Poem 2016 and her poetry pamphlet, tilt-shift, was Runner Up in the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, 2017, and mentioned in the Times Literary Supplement’s notable pamphlets, 2017. She was an invited poet in The Edwin Morgan Trust’s International Translation Workshop, in 2019.

And

Kate is the co-ordinator of the Society of Authors’ local group for Spain, she also sits on the committee of the PD James Memorial Fund at the SoA.

Kate’s a prose editor with Action, Spectacle arts magazine. She’s received three Creative Scotland funding awards for fiction and poetry, and been selected for literature residencies at Cove Park, Vermont Studio Center, Outlandia and Moniack Mhor. She’s a children’s literacy volunteer and, pre-pandemic, she chaired festival events.