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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. She was shortlisted for Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2011/2012 and also has a poem selected for 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, being shortlisted in Templar Poetry 2009 Pamphlet and Collection Competition and poems shortlisted in The Plough Prize 2009 and 2010.
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, Ink Sweat and Tears, A complicated Way of Being Ignored: The Grist anthology of the best poetry of 2012 and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam.
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).
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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