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.

Her poems and short stories have achieved extensive success in competitions, including being shortlisted in Templar Poetry 2009 Pamphlet and Collection Competition and having two poems shortlisted in The Plough Prize 2009. Her first full-length collection Into the Yell is published by Circaidy Gregory Press in July 2010.

Sarah was poet in residence at Worcester Oxfam Bookshop for National Poetry Day 2009, has experience as a poetry competition adjudicator and runs poetry, short story writing and storytelling sessions. From April 2010, she 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.