https://www.linkedin.com/in/kit-cat-perkins

Writing Achievements:

June 2016  Winner, Writing Times Dystopia Competition  (if Alan Bennett did sci-fi?)
Winner BAFTA bursary for latest script competition
May 2016  Exeter Writing Group Shortlist Short Story Competition
April 2016  Perceptive Media brainstorming workshop: BBC Manchester

BBC Scriptroom 10 Longlisted (out of 3,100 scripts) Feb 2016 for another children’s story called Last Chance Farm, a script based on my time working at a farm for disadvantaged kids.

BBC Radio 4 Show What You Wrote masterclass Media City Salford Oct 2015

Wordsmag.com  Shortlisted RNLI June 2015                                                 

BBC Writersroom/Ideas Tap Longlist for script Comeback 2014

Erewash Writers third prize for short story Seeing Red (from my unpublished novel Crossover) 2014

Funny Women Awards 2013 Top 20 Longlist for comedy script Comeback

Northern Film and Media 2013 sponsored mentorship for script Comeback with Script Angel                                                                                                            

Writing Literary Fiction Student at The University of Leeds, 2012

The Swanwick Writers’ Summer School, won a Top Writeplace, 2012 

Shortlisted best Children’s Book through Writing Magazine/Writers’ News comp 2011

Advanced Creative Writing (2009) and Screenwriting Swarthmore College, 2010

Masters degree, Msc Creative Technology 2003 BSc Honours degree Psychology 1994  

I’ve written another children’s book (aged 0-4 years) with my son which won a National Writing Competition and a new adult / YA psychological thriller.  I’ve also written articles for magazines and websites, and completed two screenplays.  I run storytelling and craft workshops as my alter ego, The Spectre Collector, a steampunk adventurer who travels the globe collecting myths, spirits and legends. www.facebook.com/spectrecollector

I blog and write feature articles on writing, health, science, reviews, leisure activities and travel. My ‘specialist’ subjects are geocaching and comping, (entering skills competitions) which has got me into all sorts of adventure. I’ve been swimming with dolphins while pregnant, blown up an abandoned school, and floated in zero gravity over Vegas in The Vomit Comet with Ozzy, Sharon and Jack Osbourne. (I believe that a writer should lead an interesting life.)

Prior to this, I worked in PR, copywriting, press releases and direct marketing, fundraising, organising events and publicity (press launches, photoshoots, etc) for a number of charities, The Independent Television Commission and the BBC.

I write a blog on parenting, days out and alternative forms of exercise, including Rock ‘n’ Pole dancing, roller disco and heavy metal bellydancing. My favourite exercise? Dancing round the kitchen with my kids to The Clash.  Sample blog post: www.catwomanga.wordpress.com/creature-discomforts

1. Masters Degree Creative Technology TV/film production, gaming, web design

   Leeds Met University · Sep 2002 - Sep 2003

2. Honours degree BSc Psychology with Honours

   University of Leeds · Oct 1990 - Aug 1994