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I am an Oxford modern languages graduate and former journalist, now a full-time mother, poet and short story writer. I love reading, writing, swimming, squash, walking, mulled wine, watching television dramas or films and belly dancing.

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Creative Writing CV

Sarah's extensive poetry and short story publications and competition successes.

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1818 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 16/10/07 . 07:59:59 am . Permalink . Email . 1484 views  17 feedbacks

Why read Sarah's blog?

This short piece should help people find their way round the various categories of my blog so they can get the most of the many posts on offer.

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254 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 15/10/07 . 08:44:47 pm . Permalink . Email . 938 views  3 feedbacks

Preferences - and Poetry in Motion

Working on the design for some new pre-school posters has proved a useful reminder to me this week of some important things about writing poetry.

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505 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 2008-09-26 . 10:52:10 . Permalink . Email . 339 views  3 feedbacks

What a mistake to make!

I bought this book by mistake. But it has to be one of the best mistakes I've made in a long while.

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412 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 2008-09-17 . 16:01:39 . Permalink . Email . 346 views  Send feedback

All Salted!

The day of my Salt Day readings yesterday dawned well. Okay, so I wasn't actually up that early but it was a sunny start and got even better when the post thudded through the letter box and I found two of my poems in the new writer.

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349 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 2008-09-14 . 08:00:44 . Permalink . Email . 362 views  9 feedbacks

Not a Page 3 girl!

Apparently the story about Legend Press's new edition of Remarkable Everyday containing my short story Monday, has also made one of our free local papers. And they've not hidden it either.

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301 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 2008-09-05 . 19:01:34 . Permalink . Email . 450 views  15 feedbacks

Cumulus

A copy of my poem Cumulus, which won first prize in this year's writelink Spring Fever contest.

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163 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 05/09/08 . 03:20:03 pm . Permalink . Email . 269 views  5 feedbacks

The Tree Surgeon

A copy of my poem which came third in this year's writelink Spring Fever poetry contest.

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175 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 04/09/08 . 03:11:51 pm . Permalink . Email . 203 views  1 feedback

Reading the weather

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has had trouble reading the weather correctly this summer. But one thing that can be said about rainy days is they do seem to encourage people to turn to books.

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241 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 03/09/08 . 01:32:12 pm . Permalink . Email . 273 views  1 feedback
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