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December 4, 2013
This Week At The Seren Christmas Pop-Up Shop…
We have a great line-up of authors reading at the Seren pop-up shop in the run up to Christmas. This week we are welcoming Wales Book of the Year winner Rhian Edwards on Wednesday at 2pm, and on Thursday photographer Phil Cope tells us about the anci…
November 27, 2013
The Seren Christmas Pop-up Shop
/*–>*/ Seren will be opening a pop-up shop in Castle Arcade, Cardiff throughout December. The National Theatre of Wales have very kindly let us invade their shop front at 30 Castle Arcade, for the month of December, while they are busy promoting the…
November 11, 2013
Candy Neubert announced as a judge of the 2014 Guernsey Poetry Prize – Call for entries.
Candy Neubert has been announced as the 2014 judge for the Guernsey Poetry Prize. Candy will choose six finalists from each of the three categories: Open Poetry, Channel Island’s Poetry and Young People’s Poetry as well as 15 other outstanding poems…
November 1, 2013
Win a limited edition signed box set of all 10 books in Seren’s ‘New Stories from the Mabinogion’ Series!
Seren are giving you the chance to win a limited edition New Stories from the Mabinogion box set of all 10 titles, signed by the authors. In New Stories form the Mabinogion 10 top Welsh authors including Owen Sheers, Gwyneth Lewis and Horatio Clare r…
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…
