Seren Events Archive
The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
Writing a first novel workshop with Hammad Rind. This workshop will be followed by by readings from Hammad's debut novel Four Dervishes (Seren 2021) and a Q&A session. Hammad's stories and articles have appeared in a number of UK and international magazines including The Madras Courier, James Joyce Broadsheet and Y Stamp. He regularly leads community and online workshops on storytelling and Eastern literature. Tickets: £7.50. For further information visit: www.these3streams.uk
This month’s Seren First Thursday is back on Zoom and we’re breaking tradition by running on the second Thursday of the month 9th June because of the Jubilee Bank Holiday. We're delighted to be joined by guest readers Paul Henry reading from As If To Sing and Susie Wild reading from Windfalls (Parthian). Our main readings will be followed by our usual open mic.Tickets are £2 (plus Eventbrite admin fee) available here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/352766834097. Open mic readers are asked to stick to 1 A4 page of poetry or prose to ensure we have time for everyone. Please email sarahjohnson@serenbooks...
Kate Noakes forthcoming book, Real Hay-on-Wye (Seren, 2022), combines memoir, anecdote, social history and arcane facts with subversive wit to provide an affectionate portrait of the town famed for its secondhand shops (and Hay Festival). She describes how it faces the challenges of any small market town, with a rich rural hinterland, and a landscape vying for attention with the best that metropolitan culture has to offer. In Finding Hay: A Journey Up Broad Street (Logaston Press, 2022) Rosie Hayles has written the story of one street in Hay seen through history, in a narrative rich in the...
The celebrated Welsh writers and poets read their work in a special evening for poetry. Robert Minhinnick has been awarded this year’s Hay Festival Medal for Poetry which will be presented on stage at this event. His new short prose book is Delirium, his sixteenth book with Seren, a kaleidoscopic collection in which poetry jostles consumerism, the implacability of the algorithm, local history, nature and much else. Clarke’s most recent book is The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen, which charts the fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year 600 AD, when the men of the...
Three sessions of reading and writing with Cath Drake. The most enjoyable way to share and learn poetry is in a regular small group. In the first hour of these workshops we’ll discuss an inspiring themed batch of poems sent in advance with a particular theme. We’ll look in depth at the poems and poetic techniques with expert guidance. The discussions in themselves are rich and life-enhancing. Then, after a short break, we’ll write together inspired by the poems and share our writing. These workshops are designed to help you develop a regular poetry reading and writing practice for those...
A monthly online international poetry feedback session to polish your poems led by Cath Drake. How do you make a good poems really good? Join a high quality online poetry feedback group to focus on honing your poetry. Receive encouragement, inspiration and constructive feedback, and get your poems ready for submission. These small groups, with a maximum of six participants, are for poets who are generating work and passionate about continuing to expand their practice of writing poetry. Both assessing the work of others and listening to how people receive your work is crucial in building...
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