Sarah O'Connor

Sarah O'Connor

Sarah O’Connor is a writer and playwright from Hamilton, Ontario. She has written articles for The Sartorial Geek and book reviews for the Literary Review of Canada’s Substack Bookworm. Her plays have been performed in the HamilTEN Festival, Mind Play Theatre Festival, and Emerson Arts Fright Night: A Night of Horror. In 2021 her flash fiction story “A Candle for Lucy” was an honourable mention for gritLit’s...
Sarah O’Connor is a writer and playwright from Hamilton, Ontario. She has written articles for The Sartorial Geek and book reviews for the Literary Review of Canada’s Substack Bookworm. Her plays have been performed in the HamilTEN Festival, Mind Play Theatre Festival, and Emerson Arts Fright Night: A Night of Horror. In 2021 her flash fiction story “A Candle for Lucy” was an honourable mention for gritLit’s 2021 flash fiction contest. In 2022 her short script “Dead Serious” was produced as an episode in Rad-io Shorts second season on Spotify. Most recently, her short story “A Guided Meditation for the End” was shortlisted for gritLit’s 2023 writing contest. In 2015 she co-created Stuck in a Story Productions with her sister and their three web series can be watched on Youtube.

Plays

  • A Spell for Schoolgirls
    On a dark night, the teenaged witch Tansy begins a spell to give her answers on her love life. Her roommate Dora sneaks in during the spell and panics at what Tansy’s doing. The two then start talking about Tansy’s witchcraft and where Dora was sneaking off to, when Tansy reveals that she saw Dora kissing one of their classmates. The girl’s then get into a discussion on school, parents, and the expectations put upon them.
  • Beep
    Two weeks after her mother dies, Abby hears her mother’s recorded voice on the answering machine. She attempts to deal with her own shock of hearing the voice while her acquaintance Eden attempts to comfort her in all the wrong ways.
  • Dead Serious
    A couple have found a listing online that they are curious to find is true or not. Offers going to dead serious buyers only.
  • The End of July
    Six-year-old July Jenkins has gone missing and anyone who’s anyone is following the case; each person coming up with different theories about what happened to her. Kristen is just as invested in the young girl’s disappearance, but she knows more about what happened to July than she’s willing to admit. A shortened ten minute version of the play is also available for performance.