Sara Wingate Gray: Writing

Sara Wingate Gray is a writer, poet and award-winning journalist. She started out writing professionally in her teens for the Waterstone’s national teenage book review magazine, ‘In Brief’. She has fifteen years of experience in the publishing and writing spheres, spanning a broad array of media formats, which begin with writing and editing her own DIY zine publication, through to magazine and newspaper work – as a freelance journalist in Hong Kong and Norwich (UK), to editing and book production – at the independent small press Pen&inc.

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Publications (selected)

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, Harper Collins 2008 (USA & UK)
The Start; The Steps; The Marriage Map; Out of Season: a series of four book poems, Letterpress, HGB Books Arts Dept., University of Leipzig 2007 (Germany)
Foreword magazine, 2008 (USA)
Lab magazine, 2008 (USA)
Mslexia magazine, 2008 (UK)
DIVA magazine, 2007 (UK)
Bordercrossings Berlin English Language Literary magazine, 2006 (Germany)
Citizen 32 magazine, 2006 (UK)
Manuscript, New Writing Partnership, 2005 (UK)
Blithe House Quarterly, 2005 (USA)
Eastern Daily Press, 2002-2003 (UK)
Spiked magazine, 2001-2002 (UK)
Exhibit:a magazine, 2000-2001 (UK)
Pretext Volume 4, (co-editor) Pen&inc, University of East Anglia (UEA), 2001 (UK)
Pretext Volume 3, (co-editor & contributor) Pen&inc, UEA, 2001 (UK)
Reactions Volume 1: anthology of poetry, edited by Esther Morgan with an introduction by Andrew Motion, Pen&inc, UEA, 2000 (UK)
Writing on Drugs (editor), Pen&inc, UEA, 2000 (UK)
Sex, Pen&inc, UEA, 1999 (UK)
Rock, Pen&inc, UEA, 1999 (UK)
BC magazine, 1997-2000 (Hong Kong)
Mutiny (editor, publisher & contributor), 1996-1997 (UK)
Bedsprings Unite (editor, publisher & contributor), 1994-98 (UK)
In Brief (co-editor & critic), Waterstones, 1993-1996 (UK)

She is also a highly skilled proofreader, copy editor and typesetter/designer, and has created publications for the British Youth Council, University of East Anglia and The British Centre for Literary Translation, amongst others.