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Kate Scott

Kate Scott


Kate Scott was born in London of American parents. She has lived in Hong Kong, Paris, Canterbury, and two tiny villages in France. She now lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.

Kate has worked as a PA at Channel 4, an academic editor, copywriter, trade magazine journalist, distance-learning tutor and poetry workshop leader (in conjunction with Tor Theatre)

Poems from her poetry collection Stitches (Peterloo) have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and on Garrison Keillor’s ‘Writer’s Almanac’ in the US. A short story was broadcast on BBC Radio 7. Her work has also appeared in magazines and anthologies. She is currently a poet-in-residence for several National Trust sites in West Dorset. As well as children’s books, she writes theatre and radio plays, short stories, and children’s TV scripts. Kate's scriptwriting is represented by Yasmin McDonald at A P Watt.

 

The opening chapters of The Rule of Water were selected to appear in the first SCBWI anthology of new writing, Undiscovered Voices.

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    A Witch in Winter
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    To be published by Hodder children's Books on 5th January 2012.