Bean Sawyer has written a YA novel, The Lost Song which was longlisted for the 2021/2022 Bath Children’s Novel Award and is currently out on submission. She has also won The Writers and Artists Killer fiction competition in 2015 with a queer protagonist, and the Globe Soup Micro Flash in 2022, which was published in the ‘Fuel Flash charity anthology’ by Tania Hershman, in 2023.

In 2023 her poems were selected by Skear Zines, to publish my Zine, ‘I am Not Afraid of Storms’. She was involved in the creative process of this from start to finish.

In 2023, she started a postal poetry project, The Murmuration of Words, where poems are written one verse at a time from many voices. She has had 53 members to date and in 2024, she exhibited a selection of the poems, along with her film poetry and artwork at Oriel y Parc, St Davids. The project is ongoing.

She is currently in the fourth year of a part-time Creative Writing MA with UWTSD, working on her dissertation, The Source, a hybrid poetry/prose novel exploring queer ecology, perimenopause, and the nature of water.

Sawyer is also a visual artist, working primarily in Stained Glass, cyanotype and found poetry collage. She teaches stained glass part-time with Pembrokeshire Lifelong Learners at multiple venues in Pembrokeshire. She also offer private 1-2-1 sessions at her home studio and runs day workshops in various glass practices.

She has been creating a series of poetry films which she is currently submitting to film festivals and competitions, Including the Iris Prize.

Sawyer leads creative found poetry workshops. She is a member of two local poetry critiquing groups, Narberth poets and PenFRO Poets and a regular attendee of open mic nights.

Narberth Poets currently have a Protest as Poetry exhibition at Narberth Museum, running until October 1st, where we are combining art and poetry together to offer a more visual way of engaging with poetry. This will be moving to Oriel y Parc, St Davids in January 2026.

She is also part of the creative team behind a series of queer events run by Span Arts in Narberth this September.