Kate Feld

I like to try different things. From journalism, I fell into writing about the Arts over here. I find writing fiction really difficult and I'm not sure if I'll ever get it, but like trying. I got 50,000 words into a novel but stopped when I had my daughter last year. (No great loss, I suspect!) I thought it might be good to try writing some short stories but hadn’t thought of doing creative nonfiction. I don’t know why, because in some sense I have been doing it all my life. I’ve kept a journal since I was ten.When I'm writing fiction or something more creative, I have a sense of being disassociated from myself, I lose myself. This feels very good for me.

Biography

Kate Feld grew up in Central Vermont and lived in Taiwan and New York City before emigrating to Chorley in 2003 (for love. It would have to be, wouldn’t it?) Now she lives in Ramsbottom with her husband, two daughters and a sinister cat.   
She has worked in journalism for ten years, originally as a hard-nosed newspaper reporter and currently as a freelance writer, editor and critic. She was the editor of Manchester arts and culture magazine eightytwenty, and has written for newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic including The Guardian, The Independent, Art World, and Newsday.

Publications

Kate writes The Manchizzle Blog

With the Manchester Literature Festival, she develops projects that explore the intersection of writing and technology. She is the editor of Rainy City Stories.She is also the director of the Manchester Blog Awards, now in its 4th year, which celebrates the best of the city’s online writing.

Listen to Kate read from A Rough Crossing from Mostly Truthful

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Workshops

Kate has run many workshops on blogging, including:

New Writing Partnerships

My parents always read The New Yorker and at some point in my teens I started reading it too. I think this is what really got me enthusiastic about this kind of writing. I love writers like Joseph Mitchell, Gay Talese and Joan Didion. Their old-fashioned kind of sprawling and descriptive narrative journalism is fast becoming an endangered species.