Regime is a dark, dystopian tale about a young girl who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time as borders go up around her city. It explores the power of freedom and the precariousness of control. Like A Prudent Man, which explores the mindset of an amalgamation of right-wing politicians, it is distinguished by chilling contemporary echoes and unsettlingly shrewd observations.

Five fast facts about Katy:

1. ​Her fiction has previously been shortlisted for awards along with her plays including the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Prize, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, and the Grace Marion Emerging Writers Prize.
    
2. She wrote A Prudent Man following a rather heated exchange with a conservative right-wing relative at the Christmas dinner table.
    
3. Her mother has now banned politics as a dinner table discussion when she goes home.
    
4. She developed her playwriting practice on an arts grant in Berlin and the UK.          
    
5. She adopted her cat, Otto, from a rescue shelter. He was originally called Ulysses but she renamed him because we all know Ulysses doesn’t have the happiest of endings.

Needless to say, Black Inc. is delighted to be publishing Regime and we look forward to sharing more details about this young writer to watch!