All About Writing

Sarah James is a jack of all trades. She’s a poet, a fiction writer, a journalist, a photographer, an editor, a book reviewer, a documentary maker, and oh she also runs a small press in the UK that publishes many influential poets. Impressive eh? Like a lot of poets, Sarah started life writing something else, in this case fiction. But after the birth of her first son she found that she didn’t have enough headspace for stories anymore, so she switched to poetry. “It just became the easiest and the most natural form to write in when I had the kids,” she said. She returned to fiction - initially flash fiction and then novellas – ten to fifteen years later, when her children were in their teens. She’s now working on a novel, among a variety of other projects, which is keeping her busier than ever before.  Sarah’s current collection is called Darling Blue and this is the sixth full length book she’s published, along with four chapbooks as well. When I put it to her that this is a lot ...