Sarah May is the highly acclaimed author of 7 novels, including The Nudist Colony (shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and winner of the Amazon Bursary), Spanish City (shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award), The Internationals (longlisted for the Women’s Prize) and the best-selling Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia. Her latest novel, Becky (a BBC Book of 2023), is published by Picador and has been optioned by Sony TV.

You can read the Guardian review of Becky here and listen to the Monocle podcast here.

Sarah has been a tutor on Faber Academy’s flagship Writing a Novel course for almost a decade and has launched many brilliant new voices in fiction including Maddie Mortimer, Samuel Burr, and Katherine Faulkner. She is also lead tutor for Writing a Novel Online and is excited to have designed the sparkling new course, which launched March 2023.

Sarah is passionate about discovering and inspiring new voices (especially those who might not have trodden all the paths of formal education) as well as supporting those returning to writing. Big, brave storytelling and authentic voice are her ‘thing’. She believes that the novel is one of the last platforms for longform discussion between writers and readers. The sort of discussion that might just change the world…