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October 30, 2013
Spooktacular Halloween Deals
/*–>*/ To get you in the mood for Halloween Seren are offering some of our spooky titles at prices so good, they’ll send a shiver down your spine. Witch £2.99Damian Walford DaviesA striking portrait in verse of a small town in England struck by the…
October 23, 2013
Pascale Petit wins the 2013 Manchester Writing Prize for Poetry
Pascale Petit has been awarded the Manchester Writing Prize for Poetry 2013. Pascale received the award ahead of other shortlisted poets Abigail Parry, Wayne Price, Victor Tapner, Carolyn King and Debra Marquart at an awards ceremony held in Manchest…
October 9, 2013
‘New Stories from the Mabinogion’ Grand Finale – London Launch
A brave youngster from downtown Splott in Cardiff and a mysterious clinic in a remote borderlands town are the unlikely subjects to complete Seren’s ground-breaking series of New Stories from the Mabinogion. From the pens of acclaimed authors Trezz…
October 7, 2013
Book Now for ‘The Wild Life of Poems’ with Pascale Petit
Booking is now open for ‘The Wild Life of Poems’ – a poetry writing course at Chateau Ventenac in the South of France with Pascale Petit, 17th – 23rd May 2014.
October 3, 2013
New Books, Exciting Events
The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness sees the Seren list, like Keats’ vines, loaded and blessed with fruit round our thatch-eaves. New poetry titles include Dai George’s first collection, The Claims Office, prize-winning Kathryn Simmonds’ seco…
September 27, 2013
The Mosaic Rooms Effigies: a collaboration between Syrian Kurdish painter Lawand Al-Attar and Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit was commissioned by the A. M. Qattan Foundation to write fifteen poems for an artbook collaboration, Effigies, with Lawand Al-Attar on the occasion of his his first solo UK exhibition ‘Lawand: Equinox, Between Beirut and London’.
September 3, 2013
Literature Wales Celebrate Dannie Abse’s 90th Birthday!
/*–>*/ This September marks the 90th birthday of author, Dannie Abse. To celebrate this special occasion, Literature Wales invite’s you to join Dannie for a delicious meal at the Mughal Emperor, Cowbridge’s award-winning Indian restaurant, on Mon…
July 19, 2013
Clueless Dogs by Rhian Edwards named Wales Book of the Year 2013
/*–>*/ Rhian Edwards’ Clueless Dogs is named Wales book of the year 2013. Edwards claimed the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry ahead of fellow Seren author, Deryn Rees-Jones, (Burying the Wren) and Picador’s Samantha Wynn-Rhydderch (Banjo), before go…
July 8, 2013
Marianne Burton’s She Inserts the Key Shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
*/ Marianne Burton’s She Inserts the Key is on this years shortlist for the Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, whilst Christoper Meredith’s ‘The Record Keepers’, taken from his collection Air Histories has been highly commended.The…
June 14, 2013
‘Seren Shorts’ Ebook
Summer 2013 and Seren launches its first-ever ebook exclusive, containing nine selected short stories absolutely free! Available to download from June 15, Seren Shorts includes top stories from our two recent spring collections, All the Souls by Mary…
May 13, 2013
Rhian Edwards and Deryn Rees-Jones on shortlist for Wales Book of the Year 2013
Seren is celebrating after the announcement that two poets – Rhian Edwards and Deryn Rees-Jones – are shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Award, the poetry category of Wales Book of the Year 2013. Rhian Edwards is a winner of the John Tripp Award, and…
May 9, 2013
Francesca Rhydderch talks about ‘The Rice Paper Diaries’
Seren has produced a short film for The Rice Paper Diaries in which Francesca Rhydderch discusses the themes and inspiration behind her debut novel. The Rice Paper Diaries is a story of war told from the edges, with much of the action taking place…
