Lancaster University

Sarah Hall receives honorary Doctor of Letters for outstanding contribution to literature.

Faber

Faber to publish Sarah Hall’s outstanding new novel, Helm, in June 2025.

Dublin Literary Award

Burntcoat is longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2023.

Guardian

Burntcoat is The Guardian audiobook of the week.

The Times

Burntcoat made The Times best paperbacks 2022.

South Bank Sky Arts Awards

Burntcoat is shortlisted for the literature category of the South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

Humanists UK

Humanists UK is delighted to welcome three new patrons into the fold, including novelist Sarah Hall.

National Book Critics Circle Awards

Burntcoat is a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2021.

The Irish Times

Burntcoat made The Irish Times best books of the year.

Guardian

Burntcoat made the Guardian’s best books of the year.

New York Times

Book review of Burntcoat.

University of Cumbria

Sarah Hall has been made a Professor of Practice at the University of Cumbria.

Edge Hill Prize

Sudden Traveller is longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.

James Tait Black Prize

Sudden Traveller is shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize.

Times Literary Supplement

Review of Sudden Traveller.

BBC National Short Story Award

Sarah Hall becomes first writer to win BBC National Short Story Award twice.

American Society of Magazine Editors

Sarah Hall’s short story, The Grotesques, has been honoured as a finalist for the 2020 ASME.

O. Henry Prize

Sarah Hall’s story Goodnight Nobody (from Madame Zero) is one of the winners of the 2019 O. Henry Prize for short fiction.

Edge Hill Prize

Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero wins the 2018 Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Award. The Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Guardian

Sarah Hall’s Sudden Traveller is shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2018.

Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize

Sarah Hall is Chair of judges for the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize 2018, congratulations to Kevin Jared Hosein.

Edge Hill Short Story Prize

Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero is one of five books on the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Shortlist.

Cambridge Festival of Creative Writing

Evening discussion with Sarah Hall.

Gordon Burn Prize

Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero is on the Gordon Burn Prize Longlist.

The Times

Madame Zero made the Guardian’s best books of 2017.

East Anglian Book Of The Year Awards

Madame Zero won the best fiction category of 2017.

Los Angeles Review of Books

‘A perfect balance of language and content.’ Review of Madame Zero.

Guardian

Madame Zero by Sarah Hall review – exceptional short stories.

Booker Prizes

Sarah Hall is to judge the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Royal Society of Literature

Sarah Hall has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Daily Telegraph

The Wolf Border has been short listed for the 2016 Sky South Bank Show’s Literature Award.

Guardian

The Wolf Border has been short listed for the 2016 James Tait Black fiction category.

Guardian

Sarah Hall, author of the Booker-shortlisted The Electric Michelango, defends Hilary Mantel’s The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

American Academy of Arts and Letters

Sarah Hall receives the E. M. Forster Award.

BBC National Short Story Award

Author Sarah Hall has been named the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 for her story Mrs Fox.

Guernica Magazine

Author James Salter ‘admires’ The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall.

Edge Hill Short Story Prize

The Beautiful Indifference wins the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and Readers Award.