Author Archives: katenorth

I was really chuffed to be invited onto Mab Jones’s blog: At The City’s Edge: The Wetlands of Wales, Episode 2. At the City’s Edge: The Wetlands of Wales is a podcast of poems, stories, discovery, discussion, music and sound art exploring the importance of the Welsh wetlands, which are now under threat. I wasContinue reading “At The City’s Edge Blog”

This autumn I am delivering an online creative writing course with the wonderful wordsmith Mab Jones.  You can find more out about her here https://mabjones.com/ We are really excited to be running a course on Exploring Voice.  It’s designed to be accessible to writers who are new to writing as well as to those whoContinue reading “Online Writing Course with Mab Jones”

Here’s me talking about my short story collection #Punch with @BookerTalk https://bookertalk.com/2019/05/13/kate-north-visits-cwtch-corner-waleswrites/ … #shortstories

Join KATE NORTH launching Punch & GARETH DAVIES launching Humans, Being Thursday, 18 April, 5.45 p.m. @ Cardiff Open Space Cardiff Central Library. The Hayes Cardiff CF10 1FL

This week the Italian publication Libri News featured an article on my writing and a translated story from Punch.  You can read the article here.

Punch short story collection out on 4th of March, available to order now. Whether it’s a man with a growth on his hand, a couple trying for a baby, a woman finishing a book, a pope with penis envy, or a bullied girl, the characters caught in the slipstream world of Punch have no choice but toContinue reading “New Book Alert”

Happy National Poetry Day!  Here is an article I’ve written for The Conversation responding to this year’s NPD theme, change. https://theconversation.com/poetry-has-a-power-to-inspire-change-like-no-other-art-form-99722    

Join us at the Roath Park pub in Cardiff to celebrate the launch of two exciting new books by writers from the city – The Way Out by Kate North and Things that Make the Heart Beat Faster by João Morais. Katherine Stansfield will be our wonderful chair for the poetry session with Kate, whileContinue reading “Book launch 11th October 2018, 7.30pm, The Roath Park Pub”

I’m please to say that my second poetry collection, The Way Out, will be published with Parthian later this year.   ‘The language is muscular, the voice commanding, while the subject matter considers the cruel joke of mortality through very tangible and physical descriptions. In such a landscape, the body becomes an undiscovered country, relationships areContinue reading “New Collection”

Here is a list of recent publications from Kate: Poetry contribution in Poetry Wales. Vol 53 Number 1 pp 54 Poetry contribution in Poetry Salzburg Review. 31  Short story ‘Houtsiplou’ in: The Lonely Crowd. Issue 6. Peer reviewed article ‘Exploring Care for Children with Autism in Wales Using Creative Writing as a Research Method inContinue reading “Latest publications”