Selected Publications

Highlights from these first years of creative writing:

• Winning Hedgehog Press Proper Pamphlet Competition #2 after two highly commended placings (‘And I’m Feeling Good’ over 30’s comp and ‘White Label #12’)
• My debut pamphlet Portrait of a Young Girl Falling is published by Hedgehog Press in 2024.
• Mslexia 2024 Flash Fiction Finalist meant also joining their Best Women’s Short Fiction anthology
• Linda France selecting ‘The cost of living’ as Poem for the Planet in Mslexia Issue 98; Pascale Petit chose another of my poems ‘This is not a protest’ for Mslexia single poem top 100 longlist in the 2021 competition.
• Winning Globe Soup’s 2021 Short Story Prize with ‘Nowhere Else I Need to Be‘; story geo-located as part of Nation.Cymru’s Interactive Cultural Map of Wales; shortly after winning Globe Soup’s 24-hour Flash Fiction prize too! (‘Going for Gold‘)
• Double-longlisting in New Writers Poetry Comp (2023 & 2024). Big thanks to judges Jordan Hamel & Andy Craven-Griffith.
• Double-shortlisting in for Staunch International Book Prizes, 2021; Cornered then longlisted in Fish 2022 Flash Fiction prize
• Three-poem sequence published in US journal ‘Firmament, vol. 2 No. 4‘ (2022) edited by Jessica Sequeira, from Sublunary Editions, Seattle (WA)
• First ever poem in print! Thank you Poetry Marathon 2021 Anthology Cynthia Hernandez and organizers Caitlin & Jacob (and in 2022 & 2023). All available to buy from Waterstones

Background

Katrina grew up on Ynys Môn, studied languages, lived in Europe and travelled widely before returning to settle and raise a family in north Wales.

A working-class upbringing and its inherent struggles gave Katrina a grounding in social issues, feminism, and entrenched conflicts facing the Welsh community and language at that time, and minority languages today. This rooted a deep and recurring hiraeth to return to Cymru and explore these themes carried throughout a lifetime.

Katrina is grateful to hold an MA in Creative Writing (with distinction), from Bangor University, a Maîtrise L.E.A., from Université du Maine, France, and a BA (Hons) in German and Italian from Leicester University.

Events

Performance plays an important part in the writing process and creative practice.

Katrina hosts Versify open mic at Bangor’s Blue Sky Café, and leads poetry and fiction workshops encouraging new writers to develop and share their creative work in safe supportive environments.

“I explore connections language(s) make across cultural and social barriers, crossing borders, and revealing personal histories unique and common to us all.”

Head here to discover upcoming events:

• Versify @Blue Sky Café, Bangor 7pm – 10.00pm: FREE monthly open mic night (2nd or 3rd Wednesday of the month). Events page for next date…
• Lansiad ‘O Ffrwyth Y Gangen Hon’ gyda darlleniadau a sgwrs gan gadeiryddiaeth Mel Davies @PalasPrint dydd Sadwrn 17 Mai, 16.00 y.h.
• Hay Festival 2025 ‘Writers at Work / Awduron wrth eu Gwaith, Wednesday 28 May 2025, 1pm. Come listen to ten new Welsh writers share fiction and poetry, in English / yn Gymraeg (free ticketed event)
• Aberystwyth Poetry Festival 2025 save the date! 6 – 8th June @The Bookshop by the Sea (National Library & various town locations)
• Planning underway for Gwyl Ysgrifennu Môn Anglesey’s annual Writing Festival. Tickets normally on sale via Eventbrite. Get in touch to be added to our ‘early-bird’ mailing list
• Conwy Youth Poetry Group (formerly Deud’O!) for 11 – 18yr olds, held at Venue Cymru, Llandudno. See website for upcoming workshop dates

“crystalline imagery, linguistic textures, and musicality… a poetic landscape of rich, unique writing.”

Briony Collins, Editor, Atomic Bohemian

“brilliantly written… makes the reader feel an emotional (almost physical) response.”

David Hanson, Editor, New Writers

“unnerving and startling”

Grindstone Literary Novel Prize