Kate Pullinger

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A powerful, heartrending novel about a man on the run from himself—by Governor’s General Award–winning author Kate Pullinger.

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Kate Pullinger - Breathe

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Landing Gear by Kate Pullinger

"A fitting follow-up to its award-winning predecessor, Landing Gear is a beautiful and profound story about finding love, peace, and meaning in a too-busy world."
– Quill & Quire

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Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger

"A highly sensual evocation of place and time [with] one of the most distinctive and memorable voices in recent literature."
– Governor General’s Jury citation

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Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger wins Governor General's AwardGovernor General’s Literary Award winner, Kate Pullinger, writes for both print and digital platforms. Her new novel, Forest Green, a story about a logger who works in the forests of British Columbia, came out in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats in August 2020, and is now in paperback.

In 2024 Pullinger was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In May 2021 Pullinger won the Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award, given every year by the Electronic Literature Organisation.

Pullinger's most recent digital fiction, Breathe, a ghost story that knows where you are, is available for free on your phone. It was shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize in 2019.

Kate maintains a newsletter called, wait for it, Kate's Newsletter.

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Pullinger elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Kate Pullinger wearing a red and yellow dress and blue jacket, seated in front of a large book, signing her name with Charles Dickens' quill
Signing the roll book as a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, July 2024
In July 2024, I was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an organisation that has gathered together writers for more than 200 years. At the ceremony, Fellows are asked to choose a pen in order to sign the RSL log book, which is itself rather large and, of course, invaluable. When I sat down and looked at the various famous writers pens on offer, I chose Charles Dickens’ pen for a number of reasons, including the fact that it is an actual quill. I dipped it into the inkwell and wrote a scratchy version of my name in the book. Fabulous.

New Archive of My Work!

Over the past couple of years I’ve been working with Dr Agnieszka Pryzbyszewska from Uni of Lodz and web designer and artist Chris Joseph to rescue/recreate/document the digital fiction projects I’ve worked on since 2002. This has been frustrating (many works are lost) and fascinating (oh! I forgot all about that project!). At a time when many of us are feeling a little … downhearted? cynical? annoyed?… by the current state of the tech landscape, it’s been good to pause and look back and, in turn, think about what might come next.

The archive of the digital works is: here
with the paratexts and ephemera of the work: here
and my Buttondown newsletter about it is here.

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