About

Sarah Swatridge

Writer.

About Sarah

Sarah is actively looking for an Agent or Publisher for her latest novel.

Sarah is a retired teacher who specialised in Mainstream special educational needs, not only working in schools (nursery, primary and secondary) but also worked with the elderly, with female offenders and with Travellers.

Sarah is often asked what her stories are about…
Romance – yes, it is true to say that most of her stories have a romantic element, but she’s also had stories published which deal with coming to terms with a miscarriage, depression, bullying in the workplace, adult literacy, Travellers.

Having studied History at university, she loves writing Historical tales. Above all she aims to pull at your emotions, ideally to make you laugh and make you cry but leaving you feeling good at the end.

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A brief summary of her writing successes are as follows:-

Plays performed at the Reading Progress Theatre.

Novels available via Amazon, Waterstones and The Reading House or borrow them from your library (Large Print section).

‘Jimmy’s Idea’ – illustrated children’s book.

Short children’s stories published in Buttons, The Brownie, Twinkle, Together, Young Soldier, Nancy the Little Nurse. Sarah was a regular contributor for Cracking RE.

About 100 short stories in women’s magazines (Just Seventeen, Home and Country, My Weekly, People’s Friend, Woman, Woman’s Weekly, Fiction Feast, Take a Break, Ireland’s Own, The Weekly News, Yours, The Best of Woman’s Weekly Fiction, That’s Life (Australia), New Woman (India), Allas (Sweden), Alfie Dog (Online) and Cafe Lit Magazine (Online).

She’s written plays for schools and in October 2014 had success with Lakeside Delight – a Progress Theatre Outreach Project.

Sarah has been Writer in Residence at The Colleton Primary in Twyford and at Woodley CofE Primary in Woodley. She has been Chairman of Reading Writers’ and a member of Thames Valley Writers and a co-ordinator for The Association of Christian Writers. Her short stories for children have been broadcast on Local BBC Radio stations as well as various commercial stations. She is a full member of The Romantic Novelists’ Association.