Cathy White

I’ve been thinking about what I’m going to do when my course finishes. There are a lot of options. I could get a full-time job but I really don’t want to go back to sitting in an office for eight hours a day. Even if I enjoy my job (whichContinue Reading

Last night I dreamt there was a dead mouse on the floor, next to a worm. At least, because the mouse was lying on its back, I assumed it was dead. Until it yawned and stretched and got up and bit my foot. It ran downstairs and I followed itContinue Reading

I feel a bit conceited, putting my name in the title like that, but it is a video of me reading out my story Dirty Boy that is published in 100 RPM, so I think it’s ok, isn’t it? Anyway, because Nik Perring recorded his, then Cath Bore recorded hers,Continue Reading

A couple of months ago, I was reading Nik Perring’s blog post about the first cheque he received as a writer. Cally Taylor wrote in the comments that, with her first cheque as a writer, she had bought herself a silver bracelet – something she could keep as a permanentContinue Reading

I’ve mentioned a couple of times about 100 RPM – the collection of 100-word stories I’ve got a story in – and now it’s available to buy on Amazon. Here’s why you should buy it (in no particular order): It’s got a fab cover; an introduction by Nik Kershaw (I’MContinue Reading

When I worked in a small publishing company in the late 90s (so small, the only full-time members of staff were me and my boss), sometimes I didn’t have much to do so I spent a lot of my day reading. I read the books in the office (mostly non-fictionContinue Reading

To celebrate World Goth Day, here’s a picture of me when I was about 18 or 19. Cool, huh?Continue Reading

Yesterday was National Flash Fiction Day and one of the events happening to celebrate it was the Flash Flood Journal, where writers were invited to submit their flash fiction and, if they were accepted, they’d be put on a website throughout all 24 hours of the day along with manyContinue Reading

FlashFlood is a flash fiction journal edited by a team of volunteer editors on behalf of National Flash Fiction Day 2012. Flash Fictions will be published all through the day on Wednesday 16 May 2012 and my story ‘Fog’ will be published between 8am and 9am. The website is openContinue Reading