Kate Writes and Reads

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

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

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

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

I told in this blog post last year how I wrote a poem called Cousin Hugh , turned the poem into a short story called Ja...

I wrote my first People’s Friend serial after winning the First Instalment of a Serial competition at the Scottish Association of ...

The seventh instalment of my People's Friend serial A Time to Reap, set in a Highland farming community in 1963, will be publi...

See previous post on my current serial in The People’s Friend , A Time to Reap, set in a Highland farming community in 19...