Kate Brooks’s writing has been longlisted for the Room Magazine Fiction Contest, the Hope Prize, twice for the CBC Short Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Malahat Review Open Season Award and Metatron Press’s Prize for Rising Authors. Her writing has appeared in Yolk Literary Journal, Headlight Anthology, Hemlock Journal, and Remington Review among others. She has published two chapbooks, Ficus (Metatron Press, 2023) and Everything (Folly House Press, 2026).
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Tender, precise, and brimming with detail, Everything celebrates the enormity of death through the minutia of living. It is an elegy, a love letter, and a meditation on the meaning of inheritance between generations.
“Kate Brooks offers us what we need. This is work that understands how bringing together the public and the private, the personal and the universal, and the feelingness of thinking, can heal and transform us. This is grief as a rainstorm, a flower, a swim in a lake. I love Everything.” – Daniel MacIvor
Through a collection of vignettes Ficus follows the ritual of care between a daughter and her sick father. Taking place over the course of a weekend-long visit , it is a vivid meditation on the rhythm of their days – watching football, reading, sharing meals – all tinged with mourning. It is an exploration of the banality of grief, the mundane nature of care, and the beauty in impermanence.
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