Katja L Kaine

Katja Kaine is an award winning writer based in Yorkshire, and is the creator of the Novel Factory.

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Katja Kaine is represented by Maddy Belton of the Madeleine Milburn Agency, and in 2024 secured a major six-figure book deal with Penguin Random House. Her Feminist YA Fantasy, Blood of Gods and Girls, is due to be published in 2026.

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She is a member of the Society of Authors and SCBWI, and is the founder of Leeds Writers and Poets. She is a graduate of the Golden Egg Academy. 

 

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

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• Won the Northern Writers Northern Promise Award 2023

• Longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award 2022

• Longlisted for the WriteMentor Novel Award 2023

• One of 12 writers selected for the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices Anthology 2022

• Shortlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award 2021

• 2nd in the Write Mentor Novel-in-Progress Award 2021

• Longlisted for the Guppy Prize

• Reached the top 10% of the Bridport Prize

• 2nd in the Quoscript novel award

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