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Graham Clifford to run Virgin London Marathon for Griffin Schools Trust
17 April 2018 - 04:26 pm
Last year the Griffin Schools Trust established a new tradition of a Griffin Schools Trust member of staff running the Virgin London Marathon to raise money for the Trust’s preferred children's charity of the year. Over £5,000 was raised for the NSPCC when Ange Tyler, one of Griffin Trust’s founders, started the tradition.  This year Graham Clifford, Seren author and Head of Willow Brook Primary School, will be running to raise funds for MACS charity...
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Siobhán Campbell video poem funded by British Council Northern Ireland
17 April 2018 - 02:53 pm
Siobhán Campbell’s ‘When all this is over’ is one of three poems that has been recorded to video with funding from British Council Northern Ireland, as part of the Peace and Beyond Conference in Belfast commemorating twenty years since the Good Friday Agreement. Watch the video for ‘When all this is over’, featuring images taken by Bernarde Lynn.  
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Emily Blewitt awarded Literature Wales Bursary
27 March 2018 - 02:46 pm
Seren poet Emily Blewitt is among the 25 writers who have been awarded Literature Wales Writers’ Bursaries for 2018.
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Penned Up: Jonathan Edwards writing workshops with HMP Erlestoke inmates
12 March 2018 - 10:18 am
Seren poet Jonathan Edwards, whose debut collection My Family and Other Superheroes won the Costa Prize, will this week be running poetry workshops with the inmates of HMP Erlestoke to promote the importance of literacy. The workshops have been organised as part of the Penned Up Literature Festival, now in its second year, hosted by Weston College and supported by Bath Spa University, the Arts Council, and Reading Patron David Kendall....
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Read Women: International Women’s Day 2018
8 March 2018 - 01:05 pm
Today we celebrate International Women’s Day – a day of recognition for women’s achievements, and also a time to acknowledge and challenge the gender inequality still present in society.We are also just days away from Mother’s Day, and whilst fluffy books about romance and cooking usually dominate consumers’ gift choices, we say: why not give mum, and yourself, something important instead?Until Monday, these two significant anthologies are 50% off ...
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