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News from Sarah Painter

  • I want: A garden office

    Due to a small-ish house and a full-time job working at home, I am somewhat obsessed with garden offices. It’s not just about the extra space, though, it’s the idea of a room of my own, of following in the footsteps of writers like Roald Dahl and Neil Gaiman, and…

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  • Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize

    This one’s just for the ladies, I’m afraid. The prize is £1000 plus an editorial report and ‘advice about publication from the judges’, Sophie Hannah and Professor Janet Todd. The five short-listed entrants get a ritzy prize-giving dinner at Lucy Cavendish College on Thursday 9 June. Any genre is accepted,…

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  • Soon, my pretty, soon

    I feel dreamy today. I have a ton of work on my desk (not literally, that would be bad), a mundane really-must-do list, and the WIP is batting its eyelashes at me, but I’m not really here. My mind certainly isn’t, anyway. It’s floating on the tide to this magical…

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