Essays

2025

“CLIMBING THAT OLD FLINT WALL: A WRITING TEACHER’S THOUGHTS ON HER LITERARY METAMORPHOSIS,” The Uses of English, Volume 76, Number 3, Summer 2025, Edited by Kayte Haselgrove and Chris Green.

“The joy of Mrs Dalloway, 100 years on,” Boundless Magazine, 2025.

2024

“How I Write,” pending publication.

2022

Read Sally’s fictional essay on the theme of a childhood walk. ‘A Curvy Road is Better Than a Straight One.’ The essay was published in WHERE MY FEET FALL Ed. Duncan Minshull, (William Collins, 2022).

2021

“The Shakespeare tragedy that truly speaks to us now,” BBC Culture.

2020

'Styling the self’. An essay on ‘Styling the Self; The Real Muddle of Autobiography’ for iai News, published in June 2020.

2019

“Sylvia Plath’s Journals.” An essay on the aesthetic purpose of Sylvia Plath’s journals published by Cambridge University Press in 2019 as part of a set of essays on Plath’s work (Sylvia Plath in Context, edited by Tracy Brain).

This page is new, and constantly being updated to also collect Sally’s older work onto the site (she has written many more essays not listed here).