Aug 4-9
The Hurst
Residential Writing Course: Fiction
Reaching the finish line



Kate Murray-Browne is a writer and editor. Her first novel, The Upstairs Room, was published by Picador in 2017 and was a Times Book of the Year, and her second, One Girl Began, was published by Orion in 2024. She was an editor at Faber for eight years, where she worked with a range of award-winning and bestselling authors. As a freelancer, she has worked for major publishing houses and leading creative writing schools, as well as continuing to work one-on-one with writers to develop their manuscripts.