Cat Winters's Blog

My debut play, Don't Cry for the Wolves, which I both wrote and directed, premiered as an early workshop performance at HART Theatre in Hillsboro, OR, this past Saturday. The play was produced as part of Portland's Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. The photo above shows Sage Wilhelm and Thea Hammond performing as Wolves and Aj Graham as Grandmother. 
Here's the full cast list:
               Ruby  Abby Kelly Grandmother  Aj Graham     Newscaster  Daniel Stapp             Wolves  Sage Wilhelm  ...

Tickets for my one-act play, Don't Cry for the Wolves, are now on sale on HART Theatre's Fertile Ground Festival website !
The play will be performed at HART Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon, on the evening of Saturday, April 11, 2026, as part of Portland's Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. My production will be paired that night with another one-act play, Howard vs Love by Abrianna Aydee. 
Here's the official synopsis for Don't Cry for the Wolves:
Bram Stoker Award-nominated author Cat Winters re...

Look at this gorgeous, haunting graphic for my upcoming one-act play, Don't Cry for the Wolves! Erin K. designed the image for me, and I love it! A version with the theater's info on it is forthcoming, but I wanted to reveal the graphic here and publicly thank Erin for her beautiful design. You can find her portfolio at artstation.com/erin-k.

And here's the official synopsis for Don't Cry for the Wolves:

Bram Stoker Award-nominated author Cat Winters reimagines "Little Red Riding Hood" as a haunti...

I'm happy to announce that my one-act play, Don't Cry for the Wolves, will be performed at HART Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon, as part of the citywide Fertile Ground Festival in April 2026. This production will mark my debut as a playwright—a dream of mine ever since I performed my own plays with my sister and cousins in my family's living room as a kid. I'm so excited!

Don't Cry for the Wolves is a reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood for our modern era. I'm honored that HART selected the piece ...

I'm thrilled to announce that two of my brand-new poems, "Hope" and "An Octopus Dwells Inside My Head," will appear in the YA poetry anthology You're Never Too Much: Poems for Every Emotion . The collection of poetry, edited by Charlie Castelletti, will release from First Ink/Pan Macmillan on September 4, 2025. 

Pre-orders for the book are available now.

The hardcover edition of the anthology is releasing in the UK, but an ebook edition will also be available.

Here's a synopsis of the book from the ...

Hello, dear readers!

This week Door Is a Jar Literary Magazine published four more of my poems in Issue 34 Spring 2025. Huge thanks to editor Maxwell Bauman for acquiring my work!

I’ll be reading one of the new poems, “Stealing from Children,” at Door Is a Jar’s virtual Spring Contributor Reading Event this Thursday, March 6, at 6:00 pm ET/3:00 pm PT.

Here's the link to the reading.

On Monday I traveled to the Oregon State Capitol to testify in support of Senate Bill 1098, Oregon’s Freedom ...

For a little while longer, you can head into select bookstores across the U.S. to find copies of Issue 33 Winter 2024 of Door Is a Jar Literary Magazine, which includes my poem "A Moth with Hummingbird Wings." It sounds like this issue will be on newstands through February 2025. You can also order copies on the magazine's website. 

Starting February 1, 2025, you'll be able to pre-order Issue 34 Spring 2025 of Door Is a Jar, in which you'll be able to find four more of my poems, including one that...

What a tremendous honor to see my poem "A Moth with Hummingbird Wings" in the pages of  Issue 33 Winter 2024 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine, which published this week! 

The publication comes in both print and digital formats, and you can find copies in several Barnes & Nobles and other U.S. bookstores . Please visit the Door Is a Jar website for more info. 
Thanks to Door Is a Jar Literary Magazine not only for publishing "A Moth with Hummingbird Wings," but for acquiring four more of my poems, ...

I'm so happy to announce that Door Is a Jar Literary Magazine will be publishing my poem "A Moth with Hummingbird Wings" this December! The piece will appear in Issue 33 Winter 2024, which will be available in print from various Barnes & Nobles, Books-a-millions, and indie bookstores across the U.S. You can subscribe to the Door Is a Jar Newsletter and keep an eye on my website and social media accounts for updates.

I loved writing poems throughout my childhood and teenage years but left poetry b...

Literary Arts in Oregon just announced that my picture book biography, Cut!: How Lotte Reiniger and a Pair of Scissors Revolutionized Animation, illustrated by Matt Schu , is a 2024 finalist for the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature, part of the Oregon Book Awards. What a tremendous honor! I'm grateful, to say the least.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Portland on April 8, 2024. Author Kwame Alexander will host the event. 
If you'd like to attend the ceremony, you ...