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Sarah Orrell
I write across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and plays, exploring humour, scripture, imagination, and experience.
Here you'll find my books, extracts, and reflections, alongside work in development. My manuscripts are currently seeking literary representation.
Fiction
Novels and stories about technology, bureaucracy, grief, friendship, absurdity, and the things that resist easy explanation.
Poetry
Noah's Raft, An Aerial View
Inspired by ‘The Seating Plan’ (Mixed Media) by Pip Woolf
Newport Gallery February 2006.
Two-by-two the unruly crew go forth to mix and mingle
Theatre/Radio Plays
Reframing Jesus
Crucifixion, temptation, film set, therapy room. Goalposts keep changing.
Three Scenes in Darkness
A life imagined inside a flotation tank, a deathbed, and a stage where the fourth wall dismantles itself.
Official BBC procedures for Keeping Calm
Emergency guidelines for chaos. Delivered regularly by forklift truck.
Other Projects
Alongside my writing, I've developed a number of participatory projects exploring what happens when stories, ideas and imagination become shared experiences.
Virtual Camino, Meet the Curator and My Intuitive Friend are some of the strands that have emerged from this work.
They are now unfolding in new ways beyond the Stage Door, within an evolving world — Chapter Seventeen — of conferences, workshops, festivals, residencies, creative encounters and experiments in imagination.
Contact
For agents, publishers and collaborators
For publishing enquiries, creative collaborations, or to stay in touch.