About Sarah May
Sarah May is the highly acclaimed author of 7 novels, including The Nudist Colony (shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and winner of the Amazon Bursary), Spanish City (shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award), The Internationals (longlisted for the Women’s Prize) and the best-selling Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia. Her latest novel, Becky, published by Picador, is out now.
A creative writing tutor on Faber Academy’s flagship six month Writing a Novel course, Sarah has launched many brilliant new voices in fiction and is excited to announce that she has designed the brand-new Writing a Novel online course, which launched March 2023. She also offers one-to-one mentoring through Jill Dawson’s Gold Dust programme.
Sarah lives in Sussex and when she isn’t writing and teaching, co-runs a young people’s theatre cooperative, Play On Productions, with her partner.
Faber Academy
A comprehensive six-month writing course for the serious writer, with access to some of the biggest names in publishing. Benefit from the structure of regular workshops covering everything from the first conception of an idea through to getting words on a page, narrative structure and style and re-writing.
Gold Dust
Gold Dust is a unique mentoring scheme for writers, founded by novelist Jill Dawson. An invaluable resource for new and emerging novelists and authors of non-fiction, Gold Dust offers eight hours of face-to-face meetings with an established novelist, usually taking place over a year. In between meetings the mentor will read your work for a further eight hours, and offer feedback on the writing, as well as an insider's advice on the publishing world and finding an agent