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The Chicken Soup Murder Shortlisted for Rubery Book Award
10 July 2018 - 02:55 pm
We are thrilled to announce that Maria Donovan’s debut novel, The Chicken Soup Murder, has been shortlisted for the 2018 Rubery Book Award’s Fiction category. The Chicken Soup Murder is one of eight titles to reach the shortlist.Part crime fiction and murder mystery, part meditation on grieving, friendship and family, The Chicken Soup Murder is a coming-of-age story narrated with resilience and humour by Michael, whose cosy young life is threatened by...
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RSL elects Barney Norris as one of 40 new fellows
29 June 2018 - 10:08 am
Award-winning playwright and author Barney Norris has been named as one of the Royal Society of Literature’s new 40 Fellows under 40. Playwrights Bola Agbaje and James Graham join him on the diverse list, which is 73% female and 30% BAME.‘We want the pulse of the RSL to keep time with the efflorescing, irrepressible, bold expressiveness of what writers are writing now, and we share a passionate commitment to what literature can do. Some of the writers will be using T S Eliot’s...
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National Poetry Day commission for Katrina Naomi
25 June 2018 - 10:42 am
In preparation for National Poetry Day, BBC Local Radio has commissioned new poems for #PoetryForAChange – twelve UK poets, including our very own Katrina Naomi (author of The Way the Crocodile Taught Me) will be writing under the theme of ‘change’: real-life changes big or small; external events that prove to be turning points for a community; or a glimpse of new possibilities that transform thoughts and feelings.The poems will be broadcast on...
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This Sunday: Kim Moore on BBC 3’s Private Passions
21 June 2018 - 10:06 am
Tune in to Private Passions on BBC Radio 3 this Sunday at 12:00pm, when Seren poet Kim Moore will be in conversation with host Michael Berkeley.In this episode of Private Passions, Kim Moore explores her musical passion for brass, from Handel's Messiah through to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, taking in the Grimethorpe Colliery Band on the way. She tells Michael Berkeley how she started writing, and about The Art of Falling, her prize-winning debut...
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In Memory of Mr Christian Brown OBE KSG
31 May 2018 - 11:14 am
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the sudden passing of Mr Christian Brown OBE KSG, who was instrumental in the creation of Cornerstone, an iconic Cardiff hub for cultural and community events in the former Ebenezer Chapel on Charles Street.Christian is pictured here with Cornerstone Poet in Residence Katherine Stansfield, who performed in the Seren/Cornerstone Poetry Festival, which took place for the first time in February 2018. The festival would not have taken...
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