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March 18, 2011
John Fuller
John Fuller is a prize-winning poet and novelist. The author of eighteen collections of poems, most recently Pebble and I (2010), his work is known for a strong humanistic civic note and a formal skill, both of which are to the fore in Writing the Pi…
March 18, 2011
David Hurn and John Fuller present ‘Writing the Picture’
Join Seren in celebrating Writing the Picture with authors David Hurn and John Fuller Thursday April 7th 2011, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 7.30pm and Tuesday 12th April 2011 at the Drill Hall, Chepstow. Admission £2.00, redeemable against purchase…
March 18, 2011
Clare Dudman
Clare Dudman was born in North Wales. She has a PhD in Chemistry and has worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate in UMIST, a development scientist in industry, a science teacher, a lecturer and as a creative writing tutor for the WEA and the MA i…
March 18, 2011
Nia Williams
Nia Williams is a freelance author and musician, living in Oxford and originally from Cardiff. She is the author of two other novels, The Pier Glass and Persons Living or Dead, which was longlisted for Wales Book of the Year and her short stories hav…
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…
