On the Skyline began as a long-running writing project by Kate Coldrick, exploring how women have been represented as disruptive, dangerous, or deviant across time and tradition. Through essays grounded in mythology, literature, history, and contemporary culture, the project examines recurring narratives around women whose speech, resistance, autonomy, or refusal to conform places them outside accepted norms.
The book On the Skyline brings together this strand of writing in a published form. Rather than reproducing the blog in full, it offers a curated and reflective selection of work, shaped as a coherent sequence. In doing so, it provides a more contained space in which to consider how cultural narratives are formed, how authority is granted or denied, and how women’s stories are framed, silenced, or reclaimed.
Figures such as Medusa, Morgan le Fay, and Anne Askew appear not as isolated case studies, but as entry points into wider patterns of representation. The book is concerned less with individual biography than with the cultural processes through which reputations are constructed, dismantled, and sustained over time. It traces the recurring association of female power with danger, ambiguity, or transgression, and asks how these associations continue to shape contemporary understandings of legitimacy, voice, and belonging.
As with the wider On the Skyline project, the book sits alongside Kate Coldrick’s work in education, inclusion, and neurodiversity. Its attention to voice, marginalisation, and narrative authority reflects ongoing concerns across her writing and creative practice, even as the book occupies a more reflective and literary register.
On the Skyline is available in paperback and digital formats via Amazon and is listed on Goodreads.
On the Skyline 