Sophie Buchaillard is the author of two novels, a dozen creative essays and a poetry collection. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and Wales Book of the Year.
Poetry
Of her debut collection Painting Over the Cracks (Lucent Dreaming, 2025), Anthony Shapland wrote: “[it] is spattered with colour. In tender and moving songs of change, Buchaillard handles words with a fluidity and ease – bringing a deceptive surface stillness to the currents of rage and grief below.”
Novels
This Is Not Who We Are (Seren) was a Wales Book of the Year shortlist.
Assimilation (Honno) has been described by Jon Gower as ‘thriller meets magic realism’.
Essays
has contributed essays about migration in Woman’s Wales? edited by Emma Schofield (Parthian, 2024) and An Open Door: New Travel Writing for A Precarious Century, edited by Steven Lovatt (Parthian, 2022).
Sophie has collaborated with a broad spectrum of partners to deliver inclusive workshops on the themes of community building, inclusion, creative growth, well-being, trauma-recovery and sustainable living, held in libraries, museums, atypical spaces, and at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre.
She is also available to support writers eligible for Access to Work grants.
Sophie holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She tutors in Creative Writing and Translation Board Member for The Other Side of Hope, a magazine showcasing the writing of refugees and migrants; a member of Lapidus International.
