Kate Blackadder

Kate Blackadder was born in the Scottish Highlands but now lives in Edinburgh. She has had almost one hundred short stories published in magazines and anthologies, plus six serials in The People's Friend. In 2008 she won the Muriel Spark Short Story Prize, judged by Maggie O'Farrell. She likes reading, going to the cinema, history, baking and crying over the television programme Long Lost Family. She blogs at http://katewritesandreads.blogspot.co.uk/

Her novel Stella's Christmas Wish is published by Black and White Publishing, available as an e-book and in large print from libraries. Three of her magazine serials – The Ferryboat, The Family at Farrshore and A Time to Reap – are in large-print library editions, and published as e-books as are Jinty's Farm and The Saturday Scribblers. She has also brought out on Kindle five collections of previously published/prize-winning stories, Three's a Crowd; Another World; The Palace of Complete Happiness; Still Rocking; and Happy Christmas Eve.