WRITING
Sarah Sayeed has always written – poetry, stories and letters, ever since she was a small child. Writing commissions include:
'Descent'
Co-written with David Calcutt and commissioned by Midland Actors Theatre
'Knives and Forks'
Memories of Partition project with the Royal Exchange Theatre
'Song for Sophia'
Durham Book Festival Commission – New Writing North
In 2018 Sarah was selected as Writer in Residence at the Jaipur Literature Festival
Between 2018 and 2020 Sarah was on a 2 year Creative Writing programme with New Writing South and is now currently writing both her first book of short stories and her first novel.
“Sarah’s writing has a beautiful poetic quality in which she conjures complex and vivid imagery in a human landscape. She captures the complexity of human relationships – particularly, in my experience, creating wonderfully layered and emotionally truthful older characters – and takes them on a journey. The ambition of the worlds she creates through her writing captures audience’s imaginations and takes them on a journey that they recognise but also takes them out of their immediate experience to connect with wider humanity.”
- Suzanne Bell, New Writing Associate and Dramaturge, Royal Exchange Theatre, October 2017 -