Welcome to the home page for award-winning poet and fiction writer Sarah James. The Oxford modern languages graduate and prize-winning former journalist has seen her work widely published in anthologies and literary journals, as well as online.

Sarah’s first full-length poetry collection Into the Yell was published by Circaidy Gregory Press in July 2010 and won third prize in the International Rubery Book Awards 2011 and she has a poem on the Polesworth Poets’ Trail in Warwickshire.

Her poems and short stories have achieved extensive success in other competitions, including first prize in the Exmoor Society Poetry Competition 2010, winner in the Jawdance Audio Poetry Competition in May 2011, second prize in the Bourne Hope Poetry Competition 2012, being shortlisted in Templar Poetry 2009 Pamphlet and Collection Competition and poems shortlisted in The Plough Prize 2009 and Ilkley Festival poetry competition 2012.

She has also been widely published in arts journals and anthologies including The Rialto, Magma, nthposition, Orbis, Poetry News, Poetry Nottingham, The French Literary Review, under the radar, Ink Sweat and Tears, Kumquat Poetry, Streetcake magazine and The Literary Bohemian, Sculpted: Poetry of the North-West, A Complicated Way of Being Ignored: The Grist anthology of the best poetry of 2012 and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam.

A regular guest poet at spoken word events and festivals, Sarah read alongside Bernard O’Donoghue at the 2013 Cheltenham Poetry Festival and will be a guest poet in Cork and Limerick in July, after being selected for this year’s Coventry-Cork twin city poets exchange. Twice shortlisted for Worcestershire Poet Laureate, Sarah is also performing at this year’s Ledbury Poetry Festival.

Sarah was poet in residence at Worcester Oxfam Bookshop for National Poetry Day 2009, has experience as a guest poet and poetry competition adjudicator, runs poetry, short story writing and storytelling sessions and is a professional member of NAWE: the National Association of Writers in Education (with public liability for working as a professional writer in public/educational arenas).

Extracts of the poetry, photography and artwork featured in her 2012 poetry-art exhibition aimed at bringing poetry to a wider audience can be found in the An Eyeful of Words section of this website.

She is currently based in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, UK, where she runs the Poetry Society’s Worcestershire Stanza and is secretary of Droitwich Arts Network.
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