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 who are experienced.  If you are interested then send an email to: exploringvoice2019@gmail.com

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 to look again at their surroundings and themselves. Humorous, disturbing, this debut short story collection shows us how strange life in the early twenty-first century is.

“Punch is original and inventive. North finds oddities in the familiar and cruelties in the banal, making these meticulously-crafted stories simultaneously warm and unnerving, sincere and gutsy.”
Rachel Tresize

Order a copy of Punch here

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, while the wonderful Richard Gwyn will chair the short story session with João.

There will be readings and short Q & A sessions. Free Entry. All Welcome. The bar will be open and very affordable and there will be free nibbles on offer and all you vegan, veggie and gluten free folks will be catered for. Failing that, it is on City Road 😉

https://www.facebook.com/events/1949701681787382/
The Way Out offers entertaining, poignant and funny poems. A fresh and contemporary voice addressing the personal, the political, the everyday and the absurd. Kate North’s second collection shows that the only way to harness the future is live one’s choices with assuredness in the present. Sharp observations of addiction, illness and loss rub shoulders with celebrations of the body, exploration of the world and the value of loving relationships.

https://www.parthianbooks.com/collections/pre-order/products/the-way-out

João Morais’s contemporary debut collection of stories beats paths through a capital city from street food markets and art galleries to the park and the pub. From illegal raves to prison visits, Morais turns his unflinching beam on the quickened pulse of urban living: spliffs, fights, and hearts spark as relationships and power struggles are tested. Often comic, sometimes tragic, these stories detail the moments in their characters’ lives when everything changes and their hearts beat faster.

https://www.parthianbooks.com/collections/new-releases/products/things-that-make-the-heart-beat-faster