KATE COLLINS

Kate is a writer of long-form and short fiction. From West Cork, Ireland, she now lives and works in Oxfordshire.

Her short fiction has been previously been longlisted for the Bath Short Story Award, and her debut novel, A GOOD HOUSE FOR CHILDREN, is published by Serpent’s Tail in the UK and by Mariner Books (Harper Collins) in the US, and was longlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award 2024.

Les Escales will publish in translation in France in September 2024.

She is currently working on her second novel.

Kate has chaired literary events for Daunt Books, Waterstones, Blackwells, and L&R Bookshop, in conversation with (among others):

Kathryn Scanlan for Kick the Latch, winner of the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize

Charlotte Wood for Stone Yard Devotional, shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize

Critically-acclaimed Sandra Newman for Julia

Prize-winning novelist Andrew Miller for The Land in Winter

If you are interested in booking Kate as an event chair, please reach out to her directly via Instagram (link below).