Kate updates

L I F E

I haven't really been here a lot since October when Uni kicked up again so I thought I'd drop by and say hi and give you all the updates. It's been hectic. I sit on 9 committees as well as my classes and assignments. I write agendas, take minutes, put together shows, write scripts. It's chaos. Currently I'm planning PRIDE 2016 (I ran a PRIDE event in my SU last year which everyone loved and we're making it even bigger this year!) and taking my comedy society to Edinburgh Fringe (waiting to hear back from PBH's Free Fringe <3 on whether or not we got in but we should do) and trying to juggle everything else.

As usual I haven't been able to submit much work here due to the black out ban on uploading any work we use in our submissions but all of my portfolios (except for Writing for Young People) are in now, so as the grades come back I can release the work into the public domain. So I'll be uploading very soon (possibly later today actually).

It's meant I've felt like I don't have much to say though. Not much to contribute here. I am doing loads ( see below ) that I think you guy would enjoy but DA doesn't really seem to have a friendly way to transmit this info without me feeling like I'm shoving it down your throats. Any ideas on that? I've noticed a lot of people seem to have left - where are you all going to?!


Anyway, I am really excited about 3 particular things going on in my life right now so I'll share them here in case you care XD



P E R F O R M A N C E    P O E T R Y

About a year ago I started doing performance poetry which I love. Its very different to page poetry and has very different needs and skills but I'm enjoying pushing myself. I just got booked to perform a gig in Bristol in March (the first time I'll have a named slot and people will pay to see me perform, even though I won't get paid XD) so I'm really excited. Whilst page poetry (the way you guys know me) will always be my primary writing form this could really be a thing for me and its not so different from my page poetry so I just wish DA had a way that I could share it with you guys as you're the people who have seen me grow the most. I'd like you guys to take this next step with me. Anyway, my performances go up on my youtube....

 Knife Fights With Trees

 The Improper Noun

 Off The Rails

 Little El

 Don't Look & The Improper Noun

 The Inconvenience of Rain & Back At The Bar

 The Advice Everyone Is Giving

 I Didn't Know

 Don't Look






T H I S    S H O W    I S    N O T    A B O U T    B E A R S

This show is a great way to get to know me outside of a writer, although we talk about writer stuff a lot because Connor and I both do a writing degree and our show is about how we survive university but mostly it's just me and one of my closest friends making each other laugh til we cry and people seem to like it If SPARTAN Poetry is Poetry + Banter.. then TSINAB is Banter + Banter.

Ep 2. "The Poetry Hour" in which Kate and Connor try to write a poem together using a variety of random prompt devices.

Ep 1. "The Essay Hour" in which Kate and Connor try to workshop each other's essays sleep-deprived and hyperactive.





S P A R T A N    P O E T R Y

I got asked to co-host SPARTAN Poetry, a radio podcast at my Uni, and I accepted. I am really enjoying it and you guys have been helping us smash all the other shows out of the park ratings-wise for which I am very grateful (and slightly smug). We talk about poetry techniques, prompts, we give advice, talk about how poetry things work in general, answer questions, then we interview a poet and hear some of their work. Poetry + Banter. Its a good time.

 SPARTAN Poetry Ep. 4. In this episode we talk about short forms and comedic poetry and interview comedic performance poet Connor Macleod (also my co-host in This Show is Not About Bears so if you like him from that, he's in this)

 SPARTAN Poetry Ep. 3. In this episode we talk about the differences between page poetry and performance poetry with Nick Compton who started both the SPARTAN Poetry podcast itself and the local performance poetry night 'Rhyme & Reason'. It's also CHRISTMASSY

 SPARTAN Poetry Ep. 2. In this episode we talk about sound and musicality and interview Sanket Shrestha, a Nepalese poet with a silver tongue!

 SPARTAN Poetry Ep. 1. In this episode the three new hosts: Hattie, Charlotte and myself, introduce ourselves and get settled in!




Much love!

Kate xx