My writing explores the wild uncertain spaces of nature, the ups and downs of mental health, and the mysteries of the creative process.
Many of my published essays, stories and poems (listed below) are available to read online for free. Please click on the titles/links to be taken to the publications where available. Some require subscription to a magazine, or are only available in print – if that is the case I’ve included links to the websites where you can purchase a copy if you wish. Thanks for reading and for supporting my work!
Prizes
- Winner of the Loft Poetry prize 2024 for the poem ‘What Returns‘
- Winner of Essay Contest for Synkroniciti Volume 3, No.3 for the essay ‘Field Notes from when the World was ending’
Essays
‘Learning to Sing’ in Outwrite, Issue 13, December 2023
‘Remembering Aurora’ in Synkroniciti Volume 5, No.3, September 2023, available to purchase at https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/
‘I see myself in everything, especially the Trees‘ in Bulb Collective Culture, June 2023
‘On Helping’ in Outwrite, The Journal of the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy, Issue 12, December 2022
‘New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver’ in Stonecrop Review, Issue 5, June 2022
‘Plant(s) Matter’ in Synkroniciti Volume 4, No. 1, March 2022, available to purchase at https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/
‘Pens and Needles‘ in Neon Door (The first truly immersive literary exhibit), January 2022
‘Field Notes from when the World was ending’ in Synkroniciti Volume 3, No.3, September 2021, available to purchase at https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/
‘How to Pitch a Home’ in Synkroniciti, Volume 3, No. 2, June 2021, available to purchase at https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/
‘Hide and Seek’ in We are not Shadows, Folkways Press, 2020, available to purchase at https://folkwayspress.com/product/we-are-not-shadows/
‘5-4-3-2-1‘ in The Great Pause, Press Pause Press, December 2020
‘The Art of Deadheading’ in Synkroniciti, Volume 2, No. 4, December 2020 available to purchase at https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/
‘Circling Forwards, Somehow‘ in The Selkie, August 2020
‘A Procedure for moving through Labyrinths‘ in Synkroniciti, Volume 2, No.3, September 2020
‘I see myself in everything, especially the Trees’ in Ponder Savant, July 2020
‘The Tape Measure’ in CARE – Covid Art Resource, April 2020
‘Why Wander‘ (self-published), August 2016
Fiction
‘Pulse at the Centre of Being‘ in All Existing Literary Magazine, Issue 1, June 2023
‘Filibustering the Motion to Uphold the Mythical State of Mankind‘ in Full Mood Magazine, Mood#4 Mythos, March 2023
‘Questions of Perspective‘ in The Pine Cone Review, Issue 2, June 2021
‘The Light Box‘ in Synkroniciti, Volume 3, No.1, March 2021
‘A Year with the Blackbirds’ in Confluence, Issue 11, April 2020, available to purchase at https://www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/confluence-issue-11
Poetry
‘What Returns’ in Loft Issue V, March 2024
‘Baby Steps in 3/4 Time’ in Loft Issue V, March 2024
‘Marine Emissaries‘ in The Hyacinth Review, December 2023
‘The Power of Risk’ in Scavengers Literary magazine, December 2023
‘The Age of Lies’, in Hiraeth Zine, Issue 1 (Modern Loneliness), July 2023
‘Extinguished’ in Hiraeth Zine, Issue 1 (Modern Loneliness), July 2023
‘What the Moon Knows’ in Hiraeth Zine, Issue 1 (Modern Loneliness), July 2023
‘Quietly, my Mind Sends up Shoots‘ in Free the Verse, Issue 6 (Pulling Teeth), June 2023
‘Thoughts Without a Thinker’ in the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy Newsletter, May 2023
‘The Intruder’ in Outwrite, The Journal of the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy, Issue 12, December 2022
‘Uprooted,’ in Last Leaves Magazine, Issue 5, October 2022
‘Honesty’ in Last Leaves Magazine, Issue 5, October 2022
‘Poppies’ in Last Leaves Magazine, Issue 5, October 2022
‘During the Drought‘ in Full Mood Magazine, Mood#2 Yellow, September 2022
‘Flight Lines: A Triptych’ in Synkroniciti, Volume 4, No. 3, September 2022 available to purchase at https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/
‘Midwinter Sun’ and ‘Crocuses’ in Flora Fiction, Volume 2 Issue 4 Winter 2021, December 2021
‘Gone with the Leaves’ in the leaves fall, Red Penguin Collection ed. J.K Larkin, September 2021
‘I’m not sure I believe in the Sea anymore’ in the ocean waves Red Penguin Collection, ed. J.K Larkin, July 2021
‘Things I learned in the Darkness‘ in Flora Fiction, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2021 (page 19)
‘What Birdsong taught me’ in Edgewords Anthology 3, Wild Encounter, December 2019
‘On the Banks of the River Dee’ in Poetic forms, ed. Jennifer Harrison, Forward Poetry, 2018
Academic Research
‘« Construire, reconstruire, respirer, vivre ? » : Les rôles des doubles et de
l’écriture dans les exils subjectifs de Nancy Huston et Linda Lê’ in L’Imaginaire au féminin: du liminal a l’animal… Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2018
‘‘Singing through the wilderness’: Subjective Exiles, Nomadism, and Music in
Nancy Huston’s Lignes de Faille’, Nottingham French Studies, 2018, 57:3, 236-248
‘‘Un spectacle de marionnettes’: Acting out the Lacanian Father in Linda Lê’s
Lettre Morte’, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 18:4, 407-42
‘‘L’écriture qui saigne’: Exile and wounding in the narratives of Nina Bouraoui
and Linda Lê’, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 15:2, 237-256
PhD Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London 2013, ‘“Exil Subjectif”: Language, Origins and Becoming Nomadic in the work of Nancy Huston, Nina Bouraoui and Linda Lê’
Sara Collie 