Kate Writes and Reads

    This 7500-word short story (or Long Read in People’s Friend terms) has just been published in a bookazine Feel Good F...

  New collection of short stories available for pre-order now : Fourteen short stories, all previously published, si...

  I’ve been published in two very different publications this week.    My Sister’s Eyes is published in the Federation of Writers (Scot...

  In 2005 I did two things that changed my life. I started going to a drop-in creative writing class run by Edinburgh Counc...

An everyday story of farming and gin-making. Jinty’s Farm is my fourth People’s Friend serial, now available for pre-order an ...

  I completed a short story last week and have submitted it to a magazine – the first new writing I’ve done since lock...

I've published a new collection of short stories . All except one were previously published in The People...

My latest People's Friend serial, Jinty's Farm , is set on – surprise! – a farm. The first instalment is in the bumper issue dated ...

  It’s a wee while since I was a teenager … but I plumbed the depths of my memory to write Back to the Sixties , a short...

In 2016 I had a serial A Time to Reap published in The People’s Friend . And from 18 January 2019, it’s havin...

My acquaintance with The People’s Friend goes back many (many) years as I said here. My association with the magazine as a writer is...

I have a story in this week’s People’s Friend called Goodbye Sukey (issue dated 24 February). I was delighted when the editor, Shi...

It’s been an ‘up’ week at katewritesandreads: On Monday, to celebrate National Short Story Week, I brought out a new...

One reason I like writing fiction is that I can live vicariously through my characters. I can look different, t...

We all have our little superstitions even those of us who say they’re not superstitious (she said, crossing her fingers)...