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Katja L Kaine

word-obsessed human

Katja Kaine is a writer based in Yorkshire, and is the creator of the Novel Factory.

Katja Kaine is represented by Maddy Belton of the Madeleine Milburn Agency.

She is a member of the Society of Authors and is the founder of Leeds Writers and Poets.

Over the last few years she has collected the following writing accolades:

Won the Northern Writers Northern Promise Award
Longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award 2023
Longlisted for the WriteMentor Novel Award 2023
Shortlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award 2022
One of 12 writers selected for the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices Anthology 2022
2nd in the Write Mentor Novel-in-Progress Award
Longlisted for the Guppy Prize
Reached the top 10% of the Bridport Prize
2nd in the Quoscript novel award

On this site you can read some of her short stories, see what her favourite writing resources are here and get in contact here.

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shovelling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

- Shannon Hale

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard.

- Neil Gaiman

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