
Kate Horan
ABOUT
Kate Horan
Kate Horan’s debut novel, The Inheritance, was an instant Top Ten Australian Bestseller, and was chosen as QBD’s Fiction Book of the Month in January 2025. Her professional background is in corporate communications, helping executives to pitch and present. Before that, she taught English and Drama at high schools in Western Sydney where she relished inspiring teenagers with a love of reading and writing. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 2001 with an Honours Degree in English Literature.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.







