Musings on reading, writing, books, gardening, chickens, life. Links to my stories, awards, other work, stuff I’m involved in and stuff I’m interested in. Read the official blurb below or check out my bibliography page to chase up some of my work.
Catherine Moffat.
Catherine is an award winning short story writer who lives on the NSW Central Coast near Newcastle. She has had short stories published in literary magazines including Australian Book Review and Australian Short Stories, and on Radio National as well as in a number of anthologies including The Mer-Creature and other stories, Things that are Found in Trees, Grieve, Novascapes, The Lost Boy, Shibboleth, The Story Hunters and the Hope Anthology. She was a regular blogger for Meanjin and Overland as part of their Meanland project on the Future of the Book.
Catherine has won the inaugural Hope Prize, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Speculative Fiction competition, Sisters in Crime Body in the Library prize and the Wyong Short Story Competition, and has been shortlisted or commended for other prizes including the Margaret River Short Story competition, the Scarlet Stiletto, the Newcastle Short Story prize, the Newcastle Herald Short Story prize and the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story competition.
Residencies include Varuna – the national writers house, KSP Writers’ Centre (Katharine Susannah Prichard’s House), Inscribe (Orana Arts) at The Corridor Project AIR and Nobby’s-Whibayganba Headland supported by Lighthouse Arts and Hunter Writers Centre.
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Hello Catherine,
Do you have an email address that I can contact you with? My website is http://www.natashatonkin.com you can reply to me via there if you prefer not to publish your email address here 🙂