Sarah Dugdale
I am a freelance writing tutor living and working in Staffordshire.
As a writer, I’m interested in themes of mortality, motherhood and landscape. My favourite books include Middlemarch and Maps of our Spectacular Bodies, by way of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Tin Man and The Priory of the Orange Tree. I'm passionate about the transformative power of writing for mental health and connection.
Qualifications & Training
Creative Writing MA (Distinction)
Bath Spa University, 2016-17
English Literature & Creative Writing Undergrad 2:1, Aberystwyth University (2011-2014)
Memberships
Entry-Level Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
Publications & awards
City Walk
London Independent Story Prize Promising Pens Anthology 2023 (as Marianne Dugdale)Early morning questions
Review: All My Wild Mothers by Victoria Bennett
Mutterzine, Issue 01 Dawn (October 2023) (now Motherlore Magazine) (as Marianne Dugdale)Reviews: Hollow in the Land and Sanderson’s Isle by James Clarke (as Marianne Dugdale)
MagNorthReview of Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
Winner of NewWriters.org Book Review Competition (June 2023) (as Marianne Dugdale)Novel excerpt, Threads Bath Spa MA Anthology (2018)
Novel-in-progress, shortlisted for Janklow and Nesbit Prize 2018 judged by literary agent Hellie Ogden
Winchester Writer’s Festival Scholar, 2018
Homes
Wales Within, Aberystwyth Uni MA Anthology 2015Father,
Cheval 6, Parthian (2013) (as Sarah Coxhead)