Kate Brooks is a writer and painter who lives in Toronto. Her work uses experimental narration to engage with the ubiquitous through the scope of the prosaically personal. Centering primarily around themes of desire and grief, her work has been longlisted for the Room Magazine Fiction Contest, twice for the CBC Short Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Malahat Review Open Season Award and Metatron Press’ Prize for Rising Authors, among others. Her writing has been published with WHOIS journal, Probably Poetry Collective, and Headlight Anthology, and her debut chapbook Ficus was recently published digitally through Metatron Press.
AWARD AND PUBLICATION HISTORY
“Penny Loafer” → Headlight Anthology no. 25
“Ficus” → Metatron Press Digi Pubs 2024
“you would be mad about how many goals I let in while I played foosball at the bar last night” → Probably Poetry, 2024
“Your Show Here” → Theatrical Dramaturge, Factory Theatre 2023
”A World Of Octobers” → Probably Poetry, 2023
“Baby’s Breath” → Third Place, Quagmire Magazine Fiction Contest 2024
"Baby’s Breath” → Shortlist, Malahat Review Open Season Fiction Award 2023
"Ontario Peach” → Longlist, CBC Short Story Prize 2023
“Penny Loafer” → Longlist, CBC Short Story Prize 2022
”Everything is, Nothing is” → Metatron MicroMeta 2022
"Dearer” → Shortlist, Metatron Fiction Prize for Rising Authors 2021
”First Quilt” → WHOIS, 2021
Lemon Hound Literary Archive → CEP Concordia University 2020
LINKS TO WRITING AND FEATURES
→”Penny Loafer” - Headlight Anthology
→Ficus - Metatron Press
→Excerpt from "Ontario Peach" - CBC Information Morning
→"Ontario Peach" - 2023 CBC Short Story Contest Longlist
→"Penny Loafer" - 2024 CBC Short Story Contest Longlist Profile
→”Dearer” - Metatron Prize for Rising Authors
→ "Everything is, Nothing is" - MictoMeta
