Kate was the head writer for the 50-episode animation series Happy Town, narrated by Mel B. from the Spice Girls. The show is currently broadcasting on Sky Kids and has been nominated for a Pulcinella Award. She was also the head writer for Treehouse Friends, a new 26-episode international animation series for DV Productions, due to be broadcast in 2026.

Kate has written approximately 135 episodes of children’s television shows broadcast on CBeebies, C5, CITV, Disney, Netflix, Sky Kids and other platforms. Her script editor work includes the second series of The Hive (Disney), the live-action show Dog Years and the film The Christmas Letter (narrated by Kate Winslet).

Other recent projects include developing a show to commissioned status with CBeebies with Blue Zoo (Mojo Swoptops); being a script consultant on two 30-minute animation specials for an international brand; and writing the script for one of the Big Picture Shows at Imperial War Museum North. She is currently developing several new projects. Her scriptwriting is represented by Jean Kitson at Kitson Press Associates (http://kitsonpress.co.uk/client/kate-scott/).

Kate’s radio plays have been long- and shortlisted for various prizes, including the Nick Darke Award. Her stage plays have been performed in the Salisbury Fringe Festival, the Salisbury Playhouse Studio and the Pleasance Theatre, London. Her new play Eat will have two rehearsed readings in 2025 with Hinterland Theatre Co.

Poems from Kate’s poetry collections Stitches (Peterloo) and Escaping the Cage (HappenStance) have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and her short fiction on Radio 4 Extra. She was one of four poets-in-residence for the National Trust (West Dorset) which led to a reading hosted by Sir Andrew Motion and Tom Paulin at Kings Place, London (also published by HappenStance as Who’s in the Next Room?).

Kate was included in the first Undiscovered Voices anthology with her 11+ novel The Rule of Water. She has written 29 reading-scheme titles (fiction and non-fiction) for HarperCollins, Hodder, Pearson Education, Oxford University Press and Penguin Random House.

The first book in Kate’s comedy-adventure series (Spies in Disguise, Piccadilly Press), Boy in Tights, won a Lancashire Fantastic Book Award. Her novel for the 8–12s, Giant, was described as ‘fresh and funny… a book that celebrates friendship and the power of being true to yourself’ by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Giant was shortlisted for the North Somerset Teachers’ Book Awards; nominated for the Lancashire Fantastic Book Awards; longlisted for the Shrewsbury Bookfest Big Book Award; and shortlisted for the Portsmouth Shorter Novel Book Award. Just Jack was shortlisted for the North Somerset Teachers’ Book Awards (Quality Fiction category) and the Portsmouth Shorter Novel Book Award.

Kate co-founded the Book Pen Pals programme with Sara O’Connor in May 2018. The initiative paired authors and illustrators with schools to make reading recommendations in postcards and ran successfully for six years. She is currently working on several new book projects, including a chapter book series and a novel for adults.