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Kate is an experienced journalist and editor and has written for local, national and international publications.
She has had numerous successes with fictional works and her work appears in several anthologies. She was highly commended in the Hastings International Poetry Competition 2002 and was runner-up in the Farnham Open Poetry Competition 2025.
She won the Isle of Wight Literary Festival 2012 flash fiction competition and often wins classes for writing poetry, short stories, one-act plays and articles at the Isle of Wight Music, Dance and Drama Festival.
In 2008, Kate wrote a travel memoir after her three-week trip on the Trans-Siberian railway. She self-published the result and raised around £7,000 for Mountbatten hospice.
She was has been runner-up in the novella, flash fiction and micro-fiction sections of the annual Paul Cave Prize for Literature; and her work has been accepted for The Figlet literary magazine. She has been longlisted in national flash fiction competitions too.
She has a BA Hons in Writing and Publishing, an HND in Journalism, and she is currently doing an online MA in Creative Writing at Arts University Bournemouth.
She has facilitated creative writing workshops and is happy to collaborate with others on writing projects. Kate also has teaching creative writing qualifications from Manchester Metropolitan University, where her tutors included the poets Malika Booker and Andrew McMillan.
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