Sarah Courtauld won the Funny Women Comedy Writing Award in 2012 and the BAFTA/Rocliffe New Writing Forum 2012, judged by a panel including Jennifer Saunders and Chris Addison. She also does stand-up and improv, as well as working part-time as a writer for Usborne Children's Books. Her debut novel, Buckle and Squash: The Perilous Princess Plot, won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award for Fiction Ages 5-9.