I have been teaching creative writing for almost two decades. I specialise in teaching in wellbeing settings, creating a safe, supportive environment where individuals can learn and develop a range of skills and techniques to express themselves.

I have taught adults in: - further adult education colleges in London - charities for wellbeing, older people, refugees, homelessness - historic buildings - museums - art galleries

I have worked with schools and children's centres to support reading and love of words at EYFS, KS1 and KS2. I have worked with teenage refugees internationally.

Lucien-Paul Stanfield, of charity Claremont Project, says: "Sara led Claremont’s Creative Writing group [for seven years] and grew it into a large and thriving community of writers. She was also supportive and nurturing, as well as offering technical help for participants. Importantly, she was also excellent at holding the group - managing its sometimes complex dynamics, and giving appropriate and respectful space both to dominant and very shy members of the group. Core to her work is valuing each individual person and helping to bear witness to them and their creativity. In addition to the weekly group, Sara was instrumental in facilitating an aspirational and inspirational range of special projects that involved the wider Claremont membership, including centre-wide projects responding to Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and the dynamic between the Apollonian and Dionysian. We would not hesitate to have her back if the opportunity arose!"

Sutton College, in nominating my work for a TES Teacher of the Year Award, said: "Sara uses creative writing as a tool to empower those from groups in the community who have experienced feelings of disenfranchisement or marginalisation. As a practitioner, Sara consistently offers first-class learning opportunities to her students, acknowledging their individual needs and engendering a supportive and inclusive learning environment where all can thrive. When devising teaching resources for her groups, Sara is highly skilled at producing resources that seek to challenge stereotypes, serving as a prompt for students to reevaluate their opinion of themselves and to extend their ambition.

Sara has been delivering courses at Sutton College to support those adult learners who recognise the beneficial influence creative writing can have on their mental health and general wellbeing. The impact of these courses is evident in the way students have re-engaged with academic study, through the development of their self-confidence and social skills and through the renewed sense of purpose they have found to move forward positively with their aspirations for the future. The work students have produced on the courses (in poem and short-story form) has been of a very high standard and, in some cases, has found its way to publication in literary journals.

The legacy of Sara’s work is found not only in the transformation of the individual but, ultimately, the transformation of the community."

My collection, 'And They Are Clapping', will be published by Indigo Dreams in 2025.

My poems have been published in magazines and anthologies, commended or listed in competitions (including twice-longlisted for the National Poetry Competition) and I was one of the winners of the National Poetry Library's instapoetry competition.

http://www.coffeehousepoetry.org/poems/troubadour-international-poetry-prize-2022 https://wildfire-words.com/poetry-from-transformation-competition/ https://www.streetcakemagazine.com/uploads/2/4/7/1/24713274/streetcakeissue63.pdf https://issuu.com/lampeter-review/docs/tlrissue17 https://porridgemagazine.com/2019/06/07/__trashed-2/

I have directed and assistant directed various community theatre projects, including for the Camden Society and Claremont Project (Islington), as well as poetry theatre.

My novel manuscript was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Award.

I have an MA Creative Writing with distinction, taught by Andrew Motion and Jo Shapcott. I also have an MA World Englishes, specialising in how to maintain individuals' voices in ideological storytelling projects.