WriteBack: An Evening of Writers Off Duty

Her first poetry collection Kingdomland (2019) was a Poetry Society Book Choice. She was the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award and an Eric Gregory Award. She is also the author of God Complex, published by Faber, and she currently works as an editor and lecturer in London.

Sabrina has written and produced on A24’s Golden Globe and Emmy winning show, BEEF; Ramy Youssef’s animated comedy for Amazon, #1 Happy Family USA; Will Ferrell’s upcoming Netflix comedy, Golf; and Ed Solomon’s Full Circle, directed by Steven Soderbergh for HBO. She wrote for Boy Blue's dance adaptation of The Matrix, Free Your Mind, directed by Danny Boyle and designed by Es Devlin. She was a Writer in Residence at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, where she co-wrote an adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. She wrote and performed her cross-genre show A History of Water in the Middle East at the Royal Court Theatre. Her other plays have received a Fringe First Award, Herald Angel Award, Old Vic New Voices Award, BBC Best Drama Award, Radio Academy Award, UK Theatre Award and an Offie Award. Sabrina is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and has written, edited and been anthologised in a number of books for adults and children.

His first novel, That Reminds Me, the first work of fiction to be published by Stormzy’s Merky Books imprint, won the Desmond Elliott Prize. His second novel, Losing the Plot, was published in 2022 and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and Jhalak Prize. In 2023 he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. His latest, Borderline Fiction, is published by Canongate.

Her latest collection The Illustrated Woman (Chatto & Windus, 2022) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Her memoir A Line Above The Sky won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature and the Grand Prize in Banff, Canada. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.