Kate Worsley

Kate Worsley is an internationally published award-winning novelist and an experienced writing mentor and teacher, working mainly with writers of long-form fiction and non-fiction.

She was born in Lancashire and now lives on the Essex coast in the UK. Kate spent many years as a journalist, editor and subeditor on national and specialist UK newspapers and magazines. She also wrote the non-fiction Personal Space (Conran Octopus) and contributed to Predictions: 30 great minds on the future, edited by Sian Griffiths (Oxford University Press). Her first novel, She Rises (Bloomsbury 2013), won the HWA Debut Crown for Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Prize in the US. Her new novel Foxash was published by Tinder Press Hachette in 2023 and won the East Anglian Book Award for Fiction.

She holds a BA in English Literature from UCL, an MA in Creative Writing from City, University of London and was an Arts Council East Escalator award-winner in 2012 and a visiting lecturer in creative writing at City 2015-19. Since 2017, she has also worked with the National Centre for Writing as a mentor and workshop leader and, in 2018, co-founded The Writers Company, a community of women writers who deliver workshops and community activities online and offline. She holds an Introductory Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, is an associate fellow of Advance HE and is a member of the National Association of Writers in Education.