Sibyl Ruth

Editor

Critically acclaimed poet

Contemporary

Literary (Including ‘bookclub’)

Women’s

Sibyl Ruth is a poet and an experienced teacher and mentor.

Sibyl has published two small press collections of poetry and won the Mslexia Poetry Competition. Her poems have been widely anthologised and broadcast. She has also scripted and presented two features for Radio 4. Listen to Them Breathing was about Quaker poets while Terezin Dreams considered the poetry written by her German-Jewish great aunt Rose Scooler, while she was in a concentration camp. She lives in Birmingham and has been the city’s Poet Laureate.

Over the years Sibyl has helped many writers realise their ambitions, and artists she has worked with have gone on to win literary prizes and awards.

Find her on LinkedIn here.

If you’d like to work with Sibyl, get in touch with our Writer Support team; tell us about your book and what you’d like support with, and we’ll help you identify your next steps.

Very insightful and thoughtful

Sibyl, thanks so much for your very insightful and thoughtful comments. I will take your suggestions on board and try to implement them.

Kathyrn K

Great and useful feedback

Sibyl has given me great and useful feedback on my writing.

Sam C

Honest feedback

I want to tell you how much I appreciate your honest feedback. I can see now how I could improve my opening chapters.

AM Orlina

Excellent, thought provoking feedback

Thank you so, so much for your report. I think I have read it through as many as 8 times now. And am going to read it again this evening.<br /> <br /> You answered every question I had in my head about what to take forward, what to give up and what to improve. I really am delighted at your excellent, thought provoking feedback.<br /> <br /> I can't thank you enough. I will definitely be going forward with a post editorial review and mentoring service in the near future.

Laura C

Provided editorial support for Bleaker House

Published by Picador

Sibyl provided support for Bleaker House, which was successfully published by Picador.

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Sibyl's specialties

Fiction

Contemporary

Literary (Including ‘bookclub’)

Crime / Thriller / Action

Women’s

Comic/satire

Young Adult

Non-Fiction

Memoir/autobiography

Why we love Sibyl

Sibyl’s short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in multiple magazines and e-zines. Her poems have also been widely anthologised and broadcast.

What Sibyl says about editing

I enjoy helping aspiring writers, because I have received so much valuable help myself! Without other artists’ input I would probably have had a few pieces published in obscure places. But accessing professional feedback has allowed me to become more successful, skillful and self-aware. I always find it exciting to start reading a new manuscript. The writer may only just be setting out, struggling to work out what they have to say, how best to say it. But somewhere between the lines there is bound to be a unique voice. My task is to listen carefully and describe what I hear. I enable writers to focus on what lies at the heart of their work, to hone the power of their words.

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