Sara Nesbitt Gibbons
Sara Nesbitt Gibbons. I am a writer and workshop facilitator in London.
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Poetry
My debut collection will be published by Indigo Dreams in 2025.
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In older news:
My poems have been published online in the following wonderful magazines:
My poems have also appeared in The Emma Press Anthology of Slow Things and The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea, both available from the Emma Press.
They have been published in various print journals, including Magma, South Bank Poetry, Brittle Star and Obsessed with Pipework.
My instapoem on St Bridget’s Day was one of the winners of the National Poetry Library’s instapoetry competition, 2018, and was part of an exhibition at Southbank Centre.
In other competition news, one of my poems was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition, 2014 (one of 124 of over 12,000 entries). My manuscript was longlisted for the Indigo Dreams 2018 competition. My poetry has also been commended in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (2011) and Ware Poetry Competition (2011) and can be found in the anthologies of both competitions.
I was moved that my poem, ‘Afterlife’, was read to honour a family member at the 2013 Royal Society of Medicine Ceremony.
I have an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing.
Poetry Theatre
With Occurrent Glow, I directed ‘Incisions and Excavations: The Poem Reincarnating Theatre’, at The Old Operating Theatre Museum. I also made a poetry film with Occurrent Glow, called ‘Cut Short’.
I worked with community theatre group The Angel Players on a poetry theatre performance of my sequence,’Grace’, which was performed at various venues including St Pancras International, Claremont, Islington Museum and the Centre for Creative Collaboration as part of the Lost and Found project. I have also performed ‘Grace’ solo, usually with help from hula hoop and puppets, in various locations.
Theatre
I have also worked on various community and professional theatre projects, as director, assistant director and writer.
Workshops and Multimodal Storytelling
I am a freelance workshop facilitator, with over fifteen years’ experience leading workshops, sessions and projects in multimodal storytelling, creative writing, poetry and theatre for diverse community groups and charities in Greater London and internationally. I also have an MA in World Englishes, specialising in multimodal storytelling and stories in interaction.
Editing
I guest co-edited South Bank Poetry magazine Issue 6 (with founder editor Peter Ebsworth) and Issue 11 (with Peter Ebsworth and Niall O’Sullivan), and was assistant editor of early issues.
Critique / Feedback
- encouraging and constructive criticism, advice and tips on taking your work further
- observations on details such as flow, characterisation, voice and dialogue
- suggested edits
Please email [email protected] for more details.
