March 2012
Norwich International Womens' Day kicked off in the Millennium Library with 12 women writers reading their work in five minute bursts - all styles, all subject matters, poetry and prose - interspersed with the talented musicians, Kimberly from Suffolk and Zimbabwean Anna Mudeka and, unintended, Tannoy announcements from next door! 5 minutes is no problem for poets, but for us prose writers, it can be a bit of a challenge - I had a piece from the memoir about a sweetie shop in the sixties. Well, no one can resist sherbet dip-dabs and chocolate can they?

January 2012
Hurrah! I've finished the first thirty thousand words of my new book. After a preternaturally long time spent examining my family for source material, I'm enjoying the freedom that fiction brings me. My first full length novel, 'The Sibylline Path' asks the question, 'What might happen if two men face the same challenge, but a century apart?' Following in another's footsteps may never have been so pertinent ...or so dangerous.

August  2011 - Keats House, London
I, and six of my fellow contributors, read at Keats House — a Regency jewel in Hampstead — at the launch of the Brittle Star Ten Year Anthology Said and Done, which included my story 'Jack Wax'. You can buy the anthology on Amazon.

March 2011
Family memoir, 'Walking' (working title) - full length manuscript finally completed after five years. There is jubilation on reaching the end, 
but also a void. While decisions are being made, I'll enjoy writing short stories and, perhaps, gardening for a while ...
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'... but also a trip in icicle clear prose to make maple syrup in a winter landscape with Sarah Passingham ...'
Maureen Duffy  foreword to anthology Said and Done.

'The latest issue of The London Magazine features "The Engineer's Daughter" by Sarah Passingham. A brief study of bitter pride, it's a remarkable example of economical writing, painstaking in its attention to detail.'
Nicholas Royle  Time Out  

'At home, I have just finished the latest edition of Brittle Star magazine - fab as usual. It's one of the ones I really enjoy getting ... But it was the piece of short fiction by Sarah Passingham called "Ironing it better" which blew me away. It was so good, real and bleak that I actually started crying at the dinner table, was forced to stop, regroup, put down my cutlery and enjoy the punch-in-the-gut sheer bloody strength of it a second time, this time without eating. Which of course made me cry again, a situation which Lord H tried to improve by putting his napkin on his head and pretending to be a Mohican. Hmm, maybe we should get out more? Or possibly stay in more, so we frighten people less ... Anyway, Lord H's trick worked, but the feeling of Passingham's piece is still with me now. Fabulous.'
Anne Brooke  author of The Gifting, Maloney's Law, Thorn in the Flesh annebrooke.blogspot.com