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March 18, 2011
‘The Colour of Grass’ book launch
Nia Williams The Colour of Grass book launch You are invited to celebrate the publication of The Colour of Grass by Nia Williams at George & Delila Café, 104 Crowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JE April 5th 2011 5.30pm Who did she think she was? Helen’s…
March 18, 2011
‘The Colour of Grass’
Seren has a new release The Colour of Grass by Welsh author Nia Williams. The Colour of Grass by Nia Williams is a story about families, past and present, and life’s unexpected connections. Helen’s family is falling apart. There are no answers from h…
March 17, 2011
Roshi Fernando shortlisted for 2011 Sunday Times EFG Bank Short Story Award
Swansea-based author Roshi Fernando is one of six authors shortlisted for the 2011 Sunday Times EFG Bank Short Story Award, with the winner to be announced at the Oxford Literary Festival on April 8th 2011. Roshi, whose work was first anthologised by…
March 10, 2011
Ruth Bidgood’s ‘Time Being’ Shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize
Ruth Bidgood’s 10th collection Time Being (Seren 2009) has been shortlisted for one of Wales’ top literary prizes to be awarded next month. The £3,000 Roland Mathias Prize for Welsh writing in English will be awarded on 8th April 2011. The biennial p…
March 7, 2011
Wales says YES! So what’s next?
Martin Shipton writes for Seren after the stunning victory of the Yes campaign in the referendum on full lawmaking in the National Assembly. “The decisive Yes vote delivered by the people of Wales marks the National Assembly’s transition from being a…
March 7, 2011
Peter Conradi becomes Fellow of Royal Society of Literature
Congratulations to Peter Conradi who has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Newly elected Fellows are inducted in a ceremony which takes place at the Society’s AGM and summer party. While the President reads a citation for each, t…
March 4, 2011
‘Daniel’s Beetles’
Seren has a new exciting release! Seren is proud to announce that the Winner of the Daniel Owen Prize for Pryfeta has adapted his originally Welsh-language novel into English. Daniel’s Beetles is the upcoming novel from Tony Bianchi, originally from…
March 4, 2011
‘A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees’ Reviews
A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees by Clare Dudman. An intensely moving novel based on stories about the trails and triumphs of nineteenth-century Welsh immigrants attempting to set up a Welsh-speaking colony in Patagonia. The protagonist Silas James…
March 4, 2011
Patagonia Release
Last night at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Welsh director Marc Evan’s premiered his new film Patagonia starring the Welsh-born-Hollywood-turned actor Matthew Rhys and Grammy Award winner Duffy. The film is about the Welsh Colony, Y Wladfam in Pa…
March 4, 2011
Welcome
Welcome to Seren Books’s WordPress! Seren Seren is an independent publisher driven by quality writing across a wide-ranging list which includes poetry, fiction, translation, biography, art and history. Many of our books and authors are shortlisted fo…
March 4, 2011
Celebrate Women’s International Day with Seren
Get Women’s Work, edited by Eva Salzman and Amy Wack (Hardback editon), for only £12.50 (Was £25) – for a limited time only. See Seren Stars at Monmouth Women’s Festival Sunday 6th March 2,30pm, Mavis Nicholson What Did You Do In The War, Mummy? will…
March 3, 2011
Celebrate World Book Day with Peter Finch.
Peter Finch will be reading from his poetry collections tonight at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (3rd March). Finch is a poet, critic, author and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff, Wales. He is best know for his declamatory poetry readings, his…
