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Saba Sams

Saba Sams is a writer based in London. Her story ‘Blue 4eva’ won the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award. Send Nudes, her debut collection, won the 2022 Edge Hill Prize. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Granta, the Stinging Fly and the White Review, among other publications.

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Fiction | Issue 163 padlock
Fiction | Issue 163 padlock

Gunk

Saba Sams

‘I followed him onto the dancefloor and he put his hands on my hips as if he’d known me for at least an hour.’

Fiction by Saba Sams.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

A World Run by Mothers

Saba Sams

‘In all the years I spent dreaming of motherhood, not once did I dream of men. If anything, I expected that romance would be my downfall.’

Saba Sams on the women who raised her, and becoming a mother at 22.

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Snakebite

Saba Sams

A new short story by Saba Sams.

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