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Welcome to our blog where you can catch up with the latest news and read guest posts by our writers.
November 10, 2025
Perfect Gift Books for Christmas 2025
With Christmas fast approaching (seriously, how is it that time again already?) we’ve rounded up our top bookish gift suggestions for all your family and friends, because who doesn’t love getting books at Christmas!
October 9, 2025
A new look for a new era
You may have noticed that our website looks a little different! We’ve been working away on a new brand and are excited to finally share our refreshed look. We’ll be rolling it out across our books and in person appearances between now and the spring…
October 8, 2025
Guest Post – Alex Hubbard: Have you ever seen the rain?
Alex Hubbard shares some of the songs he listened to whilst writing his debut novel ‘Storm‘. Find his book in bookshops and here on our website!
October 6, 2025
Poetry Wales Press awarded $30,000 Grant from Hawthornden Foundation
Poetry Wales Press, which includes Seren Books and Poetry Wales magazine, has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the US-based Hawthornden Foundation.
October 3, 2025
Bethany Handley and Alison Binney are Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes 2025
We’re delighted that Highly Commended poems Bethany Handley and Alison Binney feature in the Forward Book of Poetry 2026.
September 19, 2025
Friday Poem – ‘Testimony’ by Alison Binney
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Testimony’ by Alison Binney from her collection ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’.
August 8, 2025
Friday Poem – ‘One-sided Conversation with a Hydrozoan’ by Katrina Naomi
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘One-Sided Conversation with a Hydrozoan’ by Katrina Naomi from her collection ‘Battery Rocks’ which recently won the Holyer an Gof Award for Poetry.
August 7, 2025
Calling all readers, writers, and bookworms: take part in our Readership Survey (and maybe win some books)!
Fill in our 2025 Readership Survey for a chance to win this fabulous book bundle, worth around £150. It will only take around 25 minutes of your time.
July 29, 2025
Announcing the writers chosen from our Fiction and Non-fiction Call-out
We’re excited to announce the three writers chosen to develop publications proposals for our Publications Sub-committee following our recent call-out for Fiction and Non-fiction.
July 17, 2025
Abeer Ameer shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Single Poem
We’re delighted to see that Abeer Ameer, author of Inhale/Exile, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written for her poem ‘At Least’ first published by MODRON. Abeer is shortlisted alongside Tom Branfoot, Tim Tim Cheng, Nick M…
July 11, 2025
Friday Poem – ‘(i)’ by Deryn Rees-Jones
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘(i)’ by Deryn Rees-Jones, the first in a sequence of sonnets from her collection ‘Hôtel Amour’.
June 27, 2025
‘Battery Rocks’ by Katrina Naomi shortlisted for the Holyer an Gof Award
Katrina Naomi’s poetry collection ‘Battery Rocks’ has been shortlisted for the Holyer an Gof Award.
