Katja Kaine is judging our 2026 Page Turner Awards Book award.
Katja Kaine is a Yorkshire-based writer of feminist YA fantasy novels. She has won multiple awards for writing, including the Northern Writers Northern Promise Award and the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices competition. She was also shortlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award. Her debut novel, Blood of Gods and Girls, will be a major release of Penguin Random House UK in July 2026. She has chaired author events at Edinburgh International Book Festival and at Waterstones bookshops across the UK. She is the creator of the Novel Factory software for writers, and the Novel Writing Roadmap. Katja is half Singaporean and half German and when she's not writing can be found walking through ancient woodland with her mud-soaked labrador, bending into pretzel yoga shapes and raging against the patriarchy.
I’ll be looking for openings that orient me clearly and quickly in time, place and person, and drop me into a situation which intrigues me and makes me want to know more…
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