Saba Sams
Saba Sams was selected for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023. Her short story collection Send Nudes was awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2022 and was shortlisted for the University of Swansea International Dylan Thomas Prize 2023. The story ‘Blue 4eva’ from the collection was awarded the BBC National Short Story Award. Her first novel, Gunk, is published in May by Bloomsbury.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 170
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Saba Sams
‘I was not good at sports because I would not do sports because I did not have the body for sports because I would not do sports.’
Saba Sams on girlhood, embodiment and avoiding sports.
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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.