Semifinalist, 2024 WriteStart Competition
BIO
KATHRYN ORWIG is an award-winning author, poet, and screenwriter. Most recently, she was named as one of the Top 25 Writers to Watch in 2024 by the International Screenwriters Association and one of the Top 10 Writers
to Watch by the Golden Script Competition, and 1 of 4 selected recipients of Roadmap’s 2024 GPS Fellowship. She has seven pieces of writing published in Confined Connections by Z Publishing House (2017) and five pieces in the anthology she founded with nine other talented writers titled Bring Your Words: A Writer's Community Anthology by Fifth Avenue Press (2021). Her Romantasy novel The Shadow King just placed
as a Finalist in the 2024 #RevPit Annual Competition.
Her YA novel THE SEA CHILD placed as a Top 10 Finalist in Roadmap's Write Start Manuscript Competition and Second Rounder in Launch Pad Prose earning it a Top 10 spot on Coverfly's Red List. In addition, THE SEA
CHILD was selected for the First Five Pages Workshop where the guest agent chose the manuscript as the workshop winner and gave it a full manuscript critique. It was also selected for #RevPit 10 Queries and given
a review by a #RevPit Editor. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan (thank goodness for scholarships!) and is the recipient of a Summer Hopwood Award. She is a neurodivergent writer who comes from a low income background, which influences her writing greatly.