Kathryn van Beek

Kathryn van Beek
Born
Kathryn Elizabeth van Beek

1980 (age 44–45)
Christchurch, New Zealand
EducationVictoria University of Wellington (MA)
Occupations
  • Short story writer
  • playwright
  • children's writer
  • illustrator
  • musician
AwardsRobert Burns Fellowship (2023)

Kathryn Elizabeth van Beek (born 1980) is a New Zealand short story writer, playwright, children's writer, illustrator and musician. Following an early career as a playwright, van Beek has since written and illustrated two children's books about her kitten Bruce and published a number of short stories for adults. She has also advocated for women who have experienced miscarriage and written on this topic. In 2023 she received the Robert Burns Fellowship.

Life and career

Van Beek was born in Christchurch in 1980.[1][2] She holds a bachelor's degree in writing for theatre from Unitec and a master's degree in scriptwriting from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, completed in 2002.[1][3] In 2001 she won the Playmarket Young Playwrights Award and received a Mercury Theatre Trust scholarship.[1]

In 2002, her play French Toast was the winner of the central region prize at the Playmarket Young Playwrights' Competition, and won Best Theatre at the New Zealand Fringe Festival.[4][5][6] That year she established the production company 3girls6legs together with Natalie Hitchcock and Pia Midgley, and in 2003 they presented her play For Georgie.[1] She was the bassist and singer-songwriter for the band Peachy Keen until it disbanded in 2005.[1][7]

In 2018, she wrote and illustrated Bruce Finds a Home, a children's book based on her experience finding and adopting a one-day old kitten.[8] She had originally set up a Facebook page to relate Bruce's activities.[9] The book sold well and a sequel, Bruce Goes Outside, was published in 2020.[8]

Van Beek also writes short stories for adults. She received the 2015 Headland journal prize for her short story "Frangipani".[10] Her short story "Emotional Support Animal" won third place in the Sunday Star-Times short story competition in 2018.[11] In 2020, she published a collection of short stories for adults, Pet.[8] A review in The New Zealand Herald called it "both charming and brutal".[12]

In 2020, van Beek wrote Misconceptions, a 10-part web documentary series for The New Zealand Herald about miscarriage.[13] In 2023, she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship.[14] She said she intended to use her time on the residency to write a second collection of short stories.[15] During her residency she judged the University of Otago's annual creative writing competition.[16] She is one of three editors of the 2024 essay collection Otherhood, featuring essays by people who are not mothers.[17][18]

Personal life

In 2021, as a direct result of van Beek writing to her local MP and starting a petition that attracted 7,000 signatures, New Zealand's law was changed to entitle women and their partners to bereavement leave after experiencing miscarriage.[19][20][21]

She is a cousin of playwright and actress Jackie van Beek.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Dixon, Greg (20 March 2003). "A tragi-comic story of sisterhood and loss". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Van Beek, Kathryn Elizabeth, 1980-". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Kathryn van Beek". Playmarket. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  4. ^ a b Cardy, Tom (25 April 2002). "Ha ha ha". The Evening Post. p. 13. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Playwright winners announced". Dominion. 18 May 2002. p. 11. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Erin Kavanagh's dream is to win an Oscar for best film script". Dominion Post. 30 July 2002. p. C9. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  7. ^ "Peachy Keen". Muzic. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  8. ^ a b c Munro, Bruce (31 August 2020). "From small beginnings". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  9. ^ Keane, Pip (4 December 2015). "Time and Place: Bruce the cat's homecoming". Stuff. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  10. ^ "Inaugural Headland Prize And Frontier Prize Awarded | Scoop News". Scoop Independent News. Headland Journal. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  11. ^ Beek, van Beek (13 January 2019). "Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards 2018 finalist 'Emotional support animal' by Kathryn van Beek". Stuff. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  12. ^ "Of 'pets' and 'curses'". The New Zealand Herald. 5 September 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Stacey Morrison describes her miscarriage grief in Misconceptions series". The New Zealand Herald. 21 June 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  14. ^ Kirkby-McLeod, Libby (5 March 2023). "Writer in residency positions give financial help and a physical space to write". RNZ. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  15. ^ "Otago set to host another amazing array of artists". Live News. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  16. ^ "Creative writers to broadcast works". The Star. 16 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  17. ^ van Beek, Kathryn (11 July 2023). "Do you have kids?". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  18. ^ "Otherhood: women without children get personal in new essay collection". Radio New Zealand. 8 May 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  19. ^ Witton, Bridie (15 April 2021). "Miscarriage bereavement leave hoped to lift "taboo" around pregnancy loss". Stuff. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  20. ^ Williams, Katarina (9 December 2019). "Bereavement leave proposed for parents affected by miscarriage and stillbirth". Stuff. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  21. ^ McClure, Tess (25 March 2021). "New Zealand brings in bereavement leave for miscarriages and stillbirths". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2023.

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