Sarah James (Author)

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Sarah James (born in 1975), is a prize-winning poet, short fiction writer, journalist and photographer, working in innovative and mainstream traditions. An Oxford University French and linguistics graduate, she studied journalism at the University of Wales, Cardiff, creative writing at the University of Birmingham and has a masters in creative writing from Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is also published as S.A. Leavesley. As an editor and publisher, she runs the poetry and flash fiction imprint V. Press. One of her poems was animated for the 2014 Blackpool Illuminations.

Works

Poetry

• Into the Yell (Circaidy Gregory Press, 2010), third prize in multi-genre International Rubery Book Award 2011;

• Be[yond] (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, 2013);

• Hearth, with Angela Topping (Mother's Milk Books, 2015), a Poetry Book Society Autumn Pamphlet

• The Magnetic Diaries (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, 2015), highly commended in Forward Prizes and staged at The Courtyard, Hereford;

• Plenty-Fish (Nine Arches Press, 2015), shortlisted in International Rubery Book Award 2016;

• Lampshades and Glass Rivers (Loughborough: Lamplight Press, 2016), winner of the Overton Poetry Prize 2015;

• How to Grow Matches (Against The Grain Poetry Press, 2018), shortlisted in International Rubery Book Award 2018.

Fiction

• Kaleidoscope (Mantle Lane Press, 2017)
  
• Always Another Twist (Mantle Lane Press, 2018)
  

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