Katy is an award-winning playwright and author.
Her plays have been produced in Australia, London and New Zealand. Works include Grace, Spencer, A Prudent Man, Paper Doll, Reasons to Stay Inside and Dropped.
Awards include an AWGIE for Best Children’s Play, the Melbourne Fringe Award for Best Emerging Writer and nominations for the Victorian Green Room award for new writing, the Martin Lysicrates Prize and Lysicrates Prize, and Griffin Award.
Katy was a commissioned playwright for Old Fitz and Playwriting Australia’s New Fitz Writers’ Program and Red Stitch Actor Theatre’s INK Program. She was a playwright in the Besen Family Artist Program with Malthouse Theatre and part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre and Cybec Electric programs. She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, receiving a Master of Writing for Performance in 2012.
Her short fiction has received the Rachel Furnai Prize for Literature (Lip Magazine) and Overland Magazine’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Her writing has been shortlisted for awards including the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Prize and Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Prize and has appeared in Best Summer Stories (Black Inc.), The Slow Canoe and Overland Magazine.
Katy’s debut novel, Everywhere Everything Everyone, was published in 2019 by Hardie Grant; and was shortlisted for the Readings YA Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, Triple Threat, will be released by Hardie Grant in September 2022.
Katy is a proud member of the Australian Writers’ Guild.
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Hi Katy!
I’ve nominated you for the ‘very inspiring blogger’ award. Check out the link below for details:
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Cheers,
itsfruitcakeweather 🙂
I think you’d look adorable in Shirley’s 1960 hairdo!!! Anxious to read more of your posts!!
Well maybe you have given me the push I need to try it! (By the way, love your blog – exquisite photos)
After checking what hair you girls are talking about I think you would look good in it. Go for it! You only live once.
Good luck with your writing. I sure share the da Vinci syndrome and know what it feels like not to work on anything for a while, the prolonged procrastination bug is a hard one.
Good luck to you too. I just started following your blog and will be reading about your progress with interest. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Just discovered your blog after randomly moping around in “freshly pressed” .
Nice short story by the way!
Which Shirley MacLaine hairstyle are you contemplating?
This one:
http://laquimericainquilina.blogspot.de/2013_01_01_archive.html
Thanks so much! Appreciate you stopping by and having a read.
Oh, now that is a lovely Shirley do … But this was the one I had in mind (from The Apartment)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9049949/Shirley-MacLaine-in-pictures.html?image=2
(I’m really just a silly fan to be honest!)
Hi Katy! I still don’t know what you think about this short-story translation into French… Would you be interested? It’s already done (though it needs revising), but your agreement is required, obviously… Cheers!
Hey! I am so sorry for the delayed response; I have been putting on a play so life has been ignored for awhile! I would be very interested – that sounds incredible. Email me: katyrose.warner@gmail.com
THANK YOU
Hi Katy, good luck with your theater endeavors! I love plays and I find your blog interesting. I hope that blogging helps you stay connected to your art. 🙂
You are simply stunning and I really love the work you’re doing! 100% behind you!
Thank you for your lovely words! I am looking forward to reading more of your blog (and really pleased to read you’re a Lana fan too)
Hello, my name is Rafael Fernandez Viedma, Viola Player, Composer & Film Composer.
I send to you some of my music compositions and works for images and cinema by my link, I would like to be at your disposal if you have a project that you need composer. (documentary,shorts,feature movies, etc)
I would appreciate if you could spare a few minutes with that material. a hug from Sevilla. Spain.
Rafael
http://www.rafaelfernandezviedma.com/
Beautiful work! Thanks for getting in touch.
Hello Katy,
I absolutely adore your play Dropped and am wanting to produce/act in it in Sydney in December at The Old Fitz theatre. I’d love to talk to you about it?
Warmest
Olivia
That sounds wonderful. I’d love to talk!
I am half way through Everywhere, Everything. Everyone and the book is decent but if I read another “(their words, not mine)” i’m gonna bash the shit out of this fucking book. Just thought I’d let you know.
Hahaha! Please don’t bash the shit outta it. The cover is way too pretty for that. Thanks for reading and for reaching out to tell me how you feel. Sadly, can’t change anything now but I promise to never use that turn of phrase for any other character I ever write. It’s a Santee thing. Cheers.
hahahah I wrote that last night at 1:20 in the morning so I was ticked off at little thing, thanks
Hey Katy, I’m 15 and I read your book last year. Since the pandemic, I’ve been stuck in my house and today decided to begin rereading Everywhere Everything Everyone. I relate to it even more now because of the pandemic and the stress the world is going through. I really loved it.
I was wondering if you plan on writing a second book? I would love to read it.
I hope it’s not rude to ask that, and I’ve probably asked in the wrong spot, but I couldn’t find anywhere else.
I hope your safe and please stay well. Have a great week.
THANK YOU. You have made my YEAR. Honestly. This is the loveliest comment. And it means a lot. I am planning another book (and it isn’t rude to ask me that whatsoever). Thank you so much for reading (and rereading) EEE. I hope you and your family are all keeping well and safe over these very strange and uncertain times. Please take care. And, again, thank you for reaching out. It really means a helluva lot. Cheers.