Dr Sarah Nicholson
Festival director, author & academic
Dr Sarah Nicholson is the director of Heroines, a festival of women writing about women. She is an academic who teaches in literature, philosophy, creative arts, gender and religious studies, and the author of ‘The Evolutionary Journey of Woman: From the Goddess to Integral Feminism‘, and co-editor of ‘Integral Voices on Sex, Gender and Sexuality‘. She is a past director of the National Young Writers’ Festival, awardee of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust for Literature, and recipient of a Writer’s and Translator’s Centre of Rhodes fellowship. She was the 2017 Emerging Writer in Residence for the Katherine Susannah Pritchard Writers’ Centre. She is a board member of the South Coast Writers Centre, and the founder of the Neo Perennial Press.
