Writer. Novelist. Author.
Sanjida is an award-winning writer. She writes fiction and non-fiction as Sanjida O’Connell, and psychological thrillers as Sanjida Kay. Sanjida has been shortlisted for the BBC Asia Award, the Betty Trask Award for Romantic Fiction, the Daily Telegraph Science Writer’s Award, Asian Woman of the Year, highly commended for BBC Wildlife Magazine’s Award for Nature Writing, long listed for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger and has just won a CWA Short Story Dagger. She’s been a judge for The Bristol Short Story Prize twice, the Royal Television Society Awards, the Wainwright Prize and the Ashdown Forest Poetry Prize. Sanjida is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.
