Seren Events Archive
The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
Join Julie Brominicks for the Swansea launch of her new book The Edge of Cymru at Elysium Gallery. She will be discussing her walk and journey to becoming a writer, and will be joined by Gower-based photographer Stuart Cambell Argue, who provided the cover photograph of her book. The Edge of Cymru is the story of Julie Brominicks’ walk around Wales in the course of a year. As an educator she knew a lot about the country’s natural resources. But as a long established incomer from England and more recent Welsh learner, she wanted to know more about its history, about Wales today, and her place...
Katrina Naomi will be reading at Belfast’s Crescent Arts Centre with Maureen Boyle, Csilla Toldy and Heather Richardson at an event marking one year from the start of the war in Ukraine. Katrina is an award-winning poet, performer, mentor and judge. Her poetry collections have won an Authors’ Foundation Award and Saboteur Award, and she is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize. Katrina’s poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Poetry Please, and in The TLS, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. She has published two collections for Seren,...
Voicebox is Wrexham's very own creative showcase featuring poets, rappers, musicians, comedians, theatre and more! This month they have partnered with Grove Park Theatre for an event with Julie Brominicks about her new book The Edge of Cymru. The Edge of Cymru is the story of Julie Brominicks’ walk around Wales in the course of a year. As an educator she knew a lot about the country’s natural resources. But as a long established incomer from England and more recent Welsh learner, she wanted to know more about its history, about Wales today, and her place in it. As her walk unwinds the...
Later this year, in partnership with Inclusive Journalism Cymru and supported by the Books Council of Wales, we’re publishing a new book of essays by writers in Wales called Cymru and I. Join us and the editorial team from Inclusive Journalism Cymru online on Monday 6th February for a free informal Q&A about the project. Cymru and I will be an anthology of ten essays, written by members of Inclusive Journalism Cymru. It’s open to anyone, regardless of whether you’ve been published before. You can find out more about the book and the application process here. At this Q&A, you’ll be...
This month Seren First Thursday welcomes poets Kathryn Bevis and Sammy Weaver to Zoom to read from their debut pamphlets Flamingo and Angola, America. Kathryn Bevis’s Flamingo introduces us to a troupe of wild, unique, and captivating poems. Life and our own embodiment are brought sharply into focus as we encounter a variety of subjects including work, survival, love, and mortality. Formally inventive, these hopeful and sometimes surreal poems are not afraid to confront complex or difficult emotions. Cancer is posed as a ring-tailed lemur, capering through the sufferer’s body, and the title...
In this event at Cletwr, local author Julie Brominicks will be giving a talk about her new book The Edge of Cymru as part of their 10 year milestones series. Publication of her book in 2022 marked 10 years since she set out to walk around the edge of Wales. Her journey, which happened in 2012, took her past many milestones as she completed her long-distance walk along the Welsh Borders. This event celebrates how anniversaries, and the passing of time, can be part of our future maps, as Cletwr celebrates it’s 10th Birthday this year. The Edge of Cymru is the story of Julie Brominicks’ walk...