Kate Evans
Publisher's author webpage.Email: evans.kate85@gmail.com I was born and grew up in Co. Sligo, Ireland. In 1967 I immigrated to Canada. Two years later, I moved to Newfoundland. and have made this wild, wonderful and ever changing place my home. My writing career began quite unexpectedly about twenty years ago when I went on a pilgrimage to St. Patrick's Bed in the Maam Mountains in Connemara, Co Galway. I was not a pilgrim as such but went for the walk and the fresh mountain air. The event was a deeply moving, spiritual experience. The pilgrims were mostly Irish speaking and so everything, the mass, the readings, the prayers , the traditional old style unaccompanied singing was all in the Irish language. It was magical. On the way back through the mountains my first piece of writing took shape in my head. It was published and I just kept writing. Drawing for inspiration on my love for travel and passion for the theater I wrote numerous feature articles for the newspaper, two radio scripts for CBC radio and a short story which was published in Ireland of the Welcomes. While experimenting with different kinds of genres and ideas I finally decided to write a novel. I am a member of the Writer's Guild of Newfoundland which is a hands on writing circle. This group, which meets once a month, continues to provided me with invaluable support, friendship and constructive criticism of work in progress. My first novel, Where Old Ghosts Meet, was published in September 2010, by Breakwater Books, St John's, NL. Where Old Ghosts Meet has been shortlisted for two Atlantic Book Awards: the APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. |