Cathy Hayward
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Cathy Hayward

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I'm Cathy, and I'm a writer, bookseller and manage a creative writing school. I trained as a journalist and edited a variety of trade publications, several of which were so niche they were featured on Have I Got News for You. I then moved into the world of PR and set up an award-winning PR agency. In 2022, after having spent a lifetime pottering around bookshops, I bought Kemptown Bookshop in Brighton and I've worked to create a community which supports local authors and aspiring writers. In 2024, I took on the management of The Creative Writing Programme, the leading independent centre for creative writing teaching in the south-east of England, which is now based at the bookshop. Devastated and inspired in equal measure by the death of my parents in quick succession in 2016, I completed the two-year Creative Writing Programme course out of which emerged my debut novel The Girl in the Maze about the experience of mothering and being mothered. It won Agora Books’ Lost the Plot Work in Progress Prize 2020 and was longlisted for the Grindstone Literary Prize 2020 and Flash500 2020. It was published by Agora in November 2021. I was then fortunate to be sign a three-book deal with Lake Union. My second novel The Secret of the Brighton House comes out on 1st October 2024. When I'm not writing (or reading), I love pottering in other people’s bookshops, hiking and wild camping. I live in Brighton, England – sandwiched between the Downs and the sea – with my three children and two rescue cats. Please do get in touch and ask me a question. I read (and respond) to all my reviews and love chatting to readers. You can connect with me on Twitter @cathyhayward7 and on Instagram @cathy_hayward_writer
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