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Catrin Kemp
Writer, Founder & Creative Producer — Glasgow, UK
Catrin is an award-winning educator, writer and performer based in Glasgow. She is the founder of The New Mothers' Writing Circle.
Her work centres on helping people reconnect with their creative selves, uncover their stories and develop meaningful practices within supportive, structured environments.
Featured by the BBC and Creative Scotland, Catrin was awarded a Highly Commended place on Moniack Mhor’s 2025 Emerging Writer Award and is currently developing her debut short-story collection.
Her writing explores matrescence, identity, grief and midlife through a darkly comic female lens. Her fiction and poetry appear in Speculative Books, Motherlore Magazine, and at live events across Glasgow—including the comedy night Teenage Me… OMG!
A dedicated music fan, she’s also learning to DJ.
Catrin continues to support creatives worldwide as they build transformative artistic practices—while growing her own alongside them.
Claudine O’Sullivan
Artist, Illustrator & Creative Mentor — Glasgow, UK
Claudine is a World Illustration Award–winning artist with over a decade of industry experience. She’s worked with clients including Apple, Twitter, MTV and Jameson Whiskey and has delivered creative workshops for organisations such as the Royal Academy of Arts and John Lewis.
Claudine is a creative mentor for the Association of Illustrators and a Derwent Artist Ambassador.
Originally from Ireland and now based in Glasgow with her family, she maintains a creative practice grounded in movement, nature and the lived experience of motherhood.
A selection of her art and client work can be seen here.