Sarah Hussain

Sarah Hussain is a Huddersfield based author and educator. Her novella, ‘Escaped from Syria’ was a winner finalist in the People’s Book Prize Award. Her short story collection ‘Sit up, Stand up, Speak up’ was released in 2017, and in 2018 she won the Ms Shakespeare competition in Yorkshire and was commissioned to write a monologue, which was performed on International Women’s day. She was shortlisted in a competition run by The University of Huddersfield, and her short story, You will be free one day, my dearest India, is included in the anthology ‘Trouble’, celebrating protest, published by ‘Grist’. Furthermore, it was ‘highly commended’. She completed a BA Honours Arts of Literature in 2008, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing in 2018, and is currently completing a PhD. Sarah uses her writing as a means to promote tolerance and amplify unheard voices.