In this deeply inspiring talk, Kate Durrant discusses the role ambition, goal-setting and vision have played in her journey to becoming an established voice and a working writer.
Kate Durrant is the editor of two regional publications in Ireland, is a regular contributor to A Word in Edgeways, RTE Radio One, Pause for Thought BBC Radio Two, and a columnist for the Farmers Journal.
Her fiction has been published in Irish Country Magazine, Irish Examiner, Sunday Independent, Books Ireland, Holly Bough, From the Well (West Cork Literary Festival) 2023, Literature Today, Hammond House Anthology 2022/3/4, A Page from my Life, Stories from the Heart of Ireland, Spellbinder literary magazine and many other anthologies and literary magazines.
Shortlisted in Howl Irish Writing 2023, Anthology International short story 2022 and 2023, Hammond House International prize 2021, 2023 and 2024, her poetry has been placed in Fingal Poetry Prize 2024, Poets meet Painters 2024, Write by the Sea 2023, Poems for Patience 2023, Hammond House International literary prize 2023.
Awarded the 2024 fiction mentorship from Munster Literary Centre, she co-hosts the Natter podcast with author Michelle McDonagh.
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