Staff profile

I’m a novelist. My first novel, 'Ours are the Streets', was published in 2011 with 'The Year of the Runaways' following in 2015. I’m currently writing my third, 'China Room', to be published by Harvill Secker in 2021. I have taught creative writing to students and writers, on both university and residential courses.

I'm interested in writing and editing prose fiction.

• 2018: Fellow of Royal Society of Literature:
• 2018: Freeman's 30 International Writers for the Future:
• 2017: BBC National Short Story Award Judge:
• 2015: Winner of European Union Literature Prize (The Year of the Runaways):
• 2015: Winner of Encore Award (The Year of the Runaways):
• 2015: Shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year:
• 2015: Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize (The Year of the Runaways):
• 2015: Winner of Southbank Sky Arts Award (The Year of the Runaways):
• 2015: Shortlisted for International Dylan Thomas Prize (The Year of the Runaways):
• 2013: Granta Best of Young British Novelists:

Authored book

• Sahota, S. (in press). Ours are the Streets. Picador
• Sahota, S. (2016). The Year of the Runaways. Picador

Chapter in book

• Sahota, S. (2017). Good Girls. In J. Freeman (Ed.), Freeman's: The Future of New Writing. Grove Press
• Sahota, S. (2013). Arrivals (novel excerpt). In Granta. Granta