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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Latest article about creating a daily practice of writing out now! Plus a few new poems :) kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/to-writing

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To Writing!

Inspiration Frenzy or Something Else?

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Better late than never! Here's my HOW I GOT MY AGENT POST! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/how-i-got-...

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It’s a new week so you know what that means?! Fresh flowers! (A penny in the bottom of the vase to make them stand up straight!) I’m working on a new feature idea and outline today! This one is so fun (with loads of romance and action adventure!) #authorlife

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Exciting Update! I'm now repped (books & scripts) by the incredible Caroline Rabin at The Kaplan Stahler Agency! Caroline is the BEST creative partner I could have asked for and I can't wait to see what we create together going forward! Graphic by my talented friend (writer & artist) Birgit! :)

The graphic is a dreamy whimsical blue background with a crescent moon in the top right corner (with stars), and a castle off in the distance in the top left corner.

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I am screaming! So so so happy to have placed as a SILVER WINNER in the 2025 Page Awards!! PIRATE QUEEN OF THE RED FLAG FLEET is literally my favorite script that I’ve written! Thank you Page Awards for this incredible honor and congratulations to my fellow winners! pageawards.com/winners/2025...

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2025 Page Award Winners

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

PIRATE QUEEN OF THE RED FLAG FLEET made the 2025 Page Awards Top 10 Finalists in the Action/Adventure Category!!! I am so HAPPY! Thank you Page Awards for this huge honor!!!

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Excited to dive into this fantasy romance YA series by Adalyn Grace as the covers are gorgeous and having a character as Death is always so intriguing to me! #yafantasybooks #yaromancebooks #booklover

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The irony of sharing this poem virtually isn't lost on me! For more of my writing, visit my Substack: substack.com/@kathrynorwi... #poetry #poetrycommunity #naturepoetry

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

So incredibly thrilled to have made the Semi-Finals of The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards!!!! Top 25 in the Action-Adventure category with PIRATE QUEEN OF THE RED FLAG FLEET!! #scriptsky

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Have you ever lost someone and then “see” them where they used to be? A house? A garden? An empty chair at the table? That's today's poem GHOSTS More of my poetry can be found on my substack: substack.com/@kathrynorwi... #poetry #poet #author #poetrycommunity

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Today's poem is about the post, the mail, and how in our world of instant messages there are people who carry our letters by hand and walk by foot. The Post: A Poem kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/the-post

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

THE SHADOW KING FOURTH WING x ONE DARK WINDOW The girl with shadow wounds that won't heal, the immortal shadow king who wishes for death, a love neither of them could have imagined - all ripped to shreds if they can't unearth a lost tomb and kill the darkness inside. #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #R

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

THE SHADOW KING #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #R ONE DARK WINDOW x FROM BLOOD & ASH Once a Shadow Demon cuts you, the clock is ticking, not in months, but minutes before you turn into a shadow too. Sahira must kill the Shadow King to live. But will her bleeding heart forgive her?

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

THE SHADOW KING #questpit #Q #A #F #RF #R #agentguide #agentsguide SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT x FOURTH WING A fantasy romance where one of them must die for the other to live. ⚔️Reluctant-Allies-To-Enemies-To-Lovers ❤️‍🔥 Spicy Romance ☠️Deadly Demons 💔Brutal Betrayal ✨Found Family

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

THE SHADOW KING✨15 ms requests✨ #questpit #Q #A #RF SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT x GAMES GODS PLAY The kind of love that comes only once in a lifetime or your life? Pick one. Slow Burn Romantasy Witty Flirty Banter Dangerous Desert Creatures Vivid-World Building One Great Love or Irrevocable Loss

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The poem I'm setting free today is "The Half-Gone Tree" Give it a perusal on my free Substack: kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/the-half-g... Love my knobby eyed trees.

A fall ready tree is bare in a brilliant blue sky

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Latest poem on my Substack features the buzzing (loud) insects that I've already heard this summer! I love the sound of cicadas as they signal summer to me. kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/when-the-c... #poetry #poetrycommunity #WritingCommmunity #poetsky

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

A short poem on breathing deeply: kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/a-moment-t... #poemsky #poetry #author

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I love reading. Want to know why? We get to experience battles against good and evil, the thrills of a first love, and the joy/sorrow when a journey has reached an end. The Shadow and Bone Series did that for me (especially the last book!) I read all three in five days! #yafantasybooks #reading

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I've sat on this poem for a while. I wrote The Shape of a Woman when the #idchoosethebear question stormed the internet. I still think it's relevant. kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/the-shape-... #poetry #poems #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #author #poetsky #writingcommunity

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

How To Solve Your Own Murder by @kristenperrin.bsky.social was a recent #summerread of mine! I gravitated toward this killer premise, was intrigued by the diary entries, and flipped pages to uncover who the murder(ers?) would be. Have you read it?! #mysterybooks #booksky #bookcovers #bookrecs

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Scots Gaelic is the poem up today on my Substack (free) where I've tried to capture a bit of the love I have for Scotland in words kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/scots-gaelic #Scotland #poetry #poetrycommunity #author #WritingCommunity #poetrysky

Yellow gross flowers cover the rolling hills of Scotland with a few people on the trail, a town and water in the distance.

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Made bread today! Ugh my kitchen smells amazing and I just wanna eat it but I can’t until it cools!

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Today’s poem To-Do was written years ago and makes me melancholy as both my fur babies pictured (Blu and William) have crossed the rainbow bridge. I’m grateful for the time I had with them, and glad I could recognize it then too. open.substack.com/pub/kathryno... #poetry #poetrycommunity #cat #dog

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A Poem on Chores

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

So excited to see Pirate Queen of the Red Flag Fleet advance in the @Pageawards as a Quarterfinalist! They take the Top 10% of all submissions so I am beyond thankful this script made it into the 994 chosen Quarterfinalists!

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

My current read: Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales I’m glad to finally get to these collected fairy tale & folklore stories as I’ve been meaning to for quite some time! What a dark surprise I was in for with these twisty tales full of mischief, revenge, and wildly magical moments!

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend for those in the USA! I made biscuits and they were delicious! Today's poem WHAT IS YEARNING is a companion piece to another dropping later this week 👀 kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/what-is-ye... Read the full thing on my Substack (Free!) #poetry

Roaring waves crash together in an icy blue and white clash.

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A Collection Of Things is the poem I'm sharing today on my Substack :) It features another one of my typewriters! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/a-collecti... #typewriter #poem #poetry #writingcommunity #author

A black typewriter with little white flowers on the keys

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Submitting your manuscript to agents, what I've learned and wish I would have known sooner. Plus some resources I highly recommend! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/querying-t... #writerscommunity #querying #author #authorlife

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

How To Do The Writing Thing This article gives insight to my process of writing and has some tips and tricks to try :) kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/how-to-do-... Also features one of my typewriters and Sir William the Orange Tabby Cat

Baby blue typewriter with white keys and a blank sheet of paper waiting to be inked up.

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A Pocket Watch Poem is up now! Here's a snippet - the rest is up for free to read on my Substack! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/a-pocket-w... #writingcommunity #poetry #pocketwatches

A golden pocket watch sits on a wooden table with scattered white flowers around it.

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Golden Feast is the title of my next poem up on my Substack today :) kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/golden-feast Here's a little taste! Special thanks to Poet Tree Town A2 for including it in the 2025 PoetTree Town festivities! And to Booksweet for having it displayed for the month of April!

A huge stand of sunflowers basking in the summer sunshine of a cloudy blue sky kind of day.

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Newest poem on my Substack! I’d Rather Leave Plants is a piece I wrote after contemplating the material things we leave behind after we are gone. kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/id-rather-... #poetry #poets #writercommunity #readers #author

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I'd Rather Leave Plants

A Poem

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Latest poem up on my Substack: Bookshop This poem first appeared in the Poet Tree Town A2 Festival in 2023! kathrynorwigauthor.substack.com/p/bookshop-p... It's one of my favorites!

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Let’s talk about one of my most favorite questions! How do I write so much, so often?! Find out in my latest substack post! substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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How I Write So Much, So Often

The Question I Get Asked Most Often

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Stories: A Prose Poem Here's a snippet of my poem. You can read the rest on my Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/kathryno...

Three red leather bound books are stacked on top of each other with a sprig of yellow flowers on top

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I created a FREE Substack to help get some of my work off my laptop and into the world. substack.com/@kathrynorwi....

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Search "kathrynorwigauthor.." on Substack

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I am so grateful that my Romantasy manuscript THE SHADOW KING was chosen as an Agent Choice Award Winner! Thank you @manuscriptacademy.bsky.social for this incredible honor and all that you do for writers! Feels very official with a certificate and I love it! 🥰

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It’s that time of year again :) From May 2024-April 2025 I kept track of how many pages of writing I was, well…writing! And editing of my own work. (This does not include all the fabulous pieces I read and gave notes on for all my very talented writerly friends!)

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I haven’t been posting here much but I’m going to try to be more active! Starting today!

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Just heard back from the 3 editors I submitted SHADOW KING to for the Annual #RevPit Competition 2025 @reviseresub.bsky.social. I was on: 1 Short List! 2 Long Lists! 2 #10Queries Posts! Extremely grateful for the actionable feedback and praise they gave for my shadow magic desert Romantasy!

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE SHADOW KING All Sahira ever wanted was a home far from Shadow Demons. What she gets is a Shadow wound (not safe!) must survive The Shadow Lands (very not safe!) to kill the immortal Shadow King (super not safe!). But she would do it all again if it meant saving her sister. #questpit #Q #A #RF

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE SHADOW KING 100K #A #Romantasy am currently #Q with 5 Full Requests out! This story is for the couch adventure seekers and inner princesses wielding daggers and falling in love with a handsome traveling stranger... Warning he may fall first… #RF #F #R #questpit

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

THE SHADOW KING When mortal-but-fiery Sahira is cursed by a Shadow Demon’s blade, she must venture into the deadly deserts to confront the immortal-yet-infuriatingly-handsome Shadow King—and only one of them can survive. #Q #questpit #RF #F #Romantasy #A #R

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok? Signed, a librarian.

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Kathryn Orwig @kathrynorwigauthor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Latest Pirate Queen of the Red Flag Fleet treasures 🏴‍☠️👑⛵️#scriptsky

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