The Needle In The Blood

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Bower, Sarah

Sarah Bower is a writer of novels, short fiction and creative non-fiction with a Creative Writing MA from the University of East Anglia. She was shortlisted for the Curtis Brown Scholarship in 2001.The Needle in the Blood is her first novel, which won the Susan Hill Award in 2007 and was shortlisted for a Romantic Times award. It was excerpted for an edition of Radio 3's The Verb which featured the UEA Creative Writing MA. Sarah's second novel, The Book of Love (published in the US as Sins of the House of Borgia) has been translated into nine languages and was a Toronto Globe and Mail bestseller. A third novel, Erosion, was published in 2014.Her novella, Lines and Shadows, is out now with Story Machine Press.Sarah has contributed to anthologies and been published in Asian Cha, The Lighthouse Literary Journal, QWF Magazine, MsLexia, Spiked, Solander, The Yellow Room, Unthology and Writing in Education, and has been commissioned to write short fiction for BBC Radio 4. Sarah's work has also been performed on Radio 3's The Verb.Sarah contributes to the Historical Novels Review, the journal of the Historical Novel Society, which she edited for two years.Sarah began reading for a PhD in creative and critical writing at the Open University in 2020. The novel she is writing for her PhD is entitled Daughters of Heaven and looks at the contribution of women needleworkers to the hot air balloon craze of the 1780s and the manufacture of spacesuits for the Apollo astronauts in the late 1960s.Sarah teaches creative writing at third year undergraduate and masters level at the Open University and works as a mentor to fellow novelists through The Literary Consultancy's Chapter and Verse programme. She also works as a freelance workshop leader, most recently for the National Centre for Writing and Anglia Ruskin University's A Life Written project, facilitating memoir writing for the over seventies. For ten years she administered the Emerging Literary Translators' Mentoring Scheme founded by Daniel Hahn in 2010. She is also currently working on an Arts Council funded project entitled 'You Are A Writer', on a handbook for creative writing for people in prison.