Snakebite by Saba Sams

 

Snakebite

by Saba Sams

Lara liked a snakebite. She drank other things but this was her go-to. She was only in it to get fucked; she didn’t care about the taste. She admitted that to me freely, once I got to know her. I took a light interest in taste myself, but mostly I chose my booze by colour. I liked anything vibrant, Aperol or crème de menthe. I worked in a pub called the Queen’s Head and whenever things got depressing in there I’d pour myself a shot. My manager, Mark, rarely noticed. Unless the schoolgirls were in, he spent most of his time in the back, gambling on his own fruit machines.

 

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Interview with Saba Sams, winner of the BBC Short Story

Interview by Sophie Haydock

The winner of 2022 BBC National Short Story Award was announced this week as London-based writer, Saba Sams. Following the announcement , we spoke to her about ‘Blue 4eva’ – the winning story.

A Conversation with Saba Sams

A Conversation with Saba Sams
by Madeleine Knowles

I wanted to start with a question about process because Gunk is your first novel and your last book, Send Nudes, was a short story collection, so I’d love to know whether your writing process changed at all? And were there any challenges when moving from short story to novel?

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Photo by Clay Stephen Gardner

At 28, Saba Sams Is Britain’s Brightest Debut Novelist

BY OLIVIA MARKS

25 April 202

“The fear is that motherhood will completely annihilate everything else about you,” says author Saba Sams, 28, as we meet ahead of the publication of her debut novel, Gunk, and just eight weeks after the birth of her baby son, her third child in seven years.