Creative Writing CV
Sarah's extensive poetry and short story publications and competition successes.
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.
Not a second too late!
My poetry seems to have sprung to life just in time for Easter with some good news today.
Cumulus
A copy of my poem Cumulus, which won first prize in this year's writelink Spring Fever contest.
The Tree Surgeon
A copy of my poem which came third in this year's writelink Spring Fever poetry contest.
Slivers
Slivers was selected for Matthew Francis's Guardian online poetry workshop and published on Guardian online in April 2008.
Housework
This poem was chosen for publication as writelink resources (paid for) monthly poem (on the theme of friends) in May 2008.
Night Terrors
My poem Night Terrors was published in the Second Light Publications up-and-coming women poets' anthology My Mother Threw Knives in 2006.
Treehouse
My poem Treehouse was published in the Second Light Publications up-and-coming women poets' anthology My Mother Threw Knives in 2006.
My Perfect Lover
His voice will leave millipede tracks up my spine, curl round my breasts, hang in a necklace of long vowels...
Bitter Pill
My poem Bitter Pill is more autobiographical that much of my poetry, though still not a strictly accurate life story account. It was published in the new writer issue 86, September/October 2007.
Planning a holiday
This "choose your own adventure" poem was published in raw edge magazine (new writing in the West Midlands) number 24 [spring>summer 2007].