Future Events
2nd February – Reading at Bath Spa University
1st March – Poetry Unites, LSE
3rd March – Writing in the Social Media Age , LSE
8th March – LAUNCH PARTY of You Do Not Need Another Self-Help Book. Venue: London to be confirmed
10th March – workshop with TW Writers Circle, Crowborough
13th March – Reading at University of Kent
20th March – Pindrop Press reading at the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society, Tunbridge Wells
4th May – Launch of the Canterbury Laureate Project – New Sounds Festival
* 16 May 2012 – Keep the date free – it’s National Flash Fiction Day 2012!
23-27th July – Whitstable Oyster Festival
23-27th August – Herne Bay Festival
15-27 October – Canterbury International Festival
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9-14 January 2012 – Arvon course on Starting to Write a Novel with Jim Friel and Kate Long, The Hurst, Shropshire
1st December 2011, London – a Moving Through Transitions Workshop info here
15 November 2011, Tunbridge Wells – monthly meeting of the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society with Clare Pollard as reader.
2 November 2011, Liverpool John Moores University – MA Talk on Reading as a Writer.
In the Press
Me and My Big Stories calls The Quiet Hour, ‘a near perfect creation’ and makes me very happy.
The influential website Mediabistro features Something Beginning With, and the tweets it calls ‘twitter love’, received from Neil Gaiman and William Gibson, 31/1/11
Interviews and articles
- A piece about how much I love Denton Welch
- … And how much I love Alice Duer Miller too
- Lucky enough to be in Susannah Conway’s gang
- An interview with Authortrek
- Talking short stories on The Short Review
- My top ten books on unlikely friendships for The Guardian
- What I’m reading
- And still appearing somewhere on Second Life, my glam avator
DO YOU WANT TO WORK WITH ME…
“As always, you created an atmosphere that made it easy to trust you and everyone with our thoughts and our writing, to say nothing about the sheer fun of it all! It felt like everyone was able to access a whole level of creativity that they didn’t know they had! I know I did.”- Student
I am passionate about helping people access their creativity from established writers to those who feel stifled by academia or the business world.
For this reason, I’m not interested in dusty booklists or helping someone polish one perfectly boring but stylistically correct poem. What I like best is when my students realize that they are writing pieces that matter to them in their own authentic voice. Every day. And that it can be fun, even if sometimes it involves taking risks. Actually, it always does.
Luckily they come back for more.
At the moment, I am working with a limited number of people for one-to-one mentoring, as well as running individual commissioned workshops. If you are interested in finding out more, then please contact me and we can talk about how best I can help you.
Some themes we could work with include:
- Creative non-fiction
- Using place in fiction
- Developing characters
- Finishing your novel
- Starting your novel
- Kick-starting creativity
In addition, I am currently in the middle of designing my first e-course – Writing Roots – based on using family stories and other archeological finds to find out who your true writing self is. This is in pilot mode at the moment, but was booked out within 24 hours of advertising! Please let me know if you would like to be put on the waiting list for future courses.
You can write to me here: sarahsalway @ gmail.com (but without the spaces!).
For professional queries about my writing, contact my agent, Annette Green Authors’ Agency.
