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Claire Williamson wins second place in Sentinel Literary Quarterly Competition
23 January 2018 - 10:13 am
Poet Claire Williamson, whose third collection Visiting the Minotaur is forthcoming from Seren (April 2018), has won Second Place in the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition, for her poem ‘Extremities’.Judge Abegail Morley selected ‘Extremeties’ from amongst 308 entries, including poems from previous Sentinel Champions. All the commended and winning poems will be published in print and online on 31st January 2018 in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine. View...
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David Hurn to photograph the Seren/Cornerstone Poetry Festival
10 January 2018 - 12:10 pm
Celebrated Welsh photographer David Hurn will be joining us for the duration of the Seren/Cornerstone Poetry Festival (16-18 February) to take portrait photographs of the poets involved. Hurn is a leading British documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He has published several books of his work, including Living in Wales and Writing the Picture.There is currently an exhibition of photographs from Hurn’s private collection at the National Museum...
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All our books are half price for one week only
5 January 2018 - 10:35 am
2018 has arrived and with it, our January sale. For one week only, please enjoy 50% off all our books!If you’re a poetry reader, then why not buy a copy of Kim Moore’s award-winning The Art of Falling, and a copy of Paul Deaton’s PBS-recommended debut, A Watchful Astronomy.For nature lovers, Iolo Williams’ Wild Places: Wales’ Top 40 Nature Sites will reveal our stunning local wilderness as you’ve never seen it before.If you’re on the hunt for new...
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Jo Mazelis wins Jerwood Prize

Tuesday 12th May, 11:27
Jo Mazelis is one of eight winners of the2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for her striking debut novel Significance. The winners were announced on 18th June at a reception at the Jerwood Space, London. Each of the winning authors received £5000.Now in its 5th year, the Jerwood Fiction Unco...
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Writing Workshop | 'The Blank Page' with Jo Mazelis

Friday 24th July, 09:27
Join Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner Jo Mazelis at this year's PENfro Book Festival at 12:30pmon Saturday 12th September for a two hour workshop onstarting, and continuing, to write.Tickets are £10 and can be booked here....
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Celebrating Significance with Jerwood Fiction Uncovered

Tuesday 25th August, 10:43
Throughout the summerJerwoodFiction Uncovered have beencelebrating the eight winners of their 2015 prize, and this week it's Significance's turn!Read the first chapter of Mazelis' absorbing debut novel here, and keep your eye on the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered website for more updates. Don...
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Festivals Galore!

Tuesday 1st September, 12:28
September has arrived, autumn is on its way, and so many of our authors are gearing up to participate in some exciting events all over the world through September and beyond!In September alone Ivy Alvarez will be at theBrisbane Writers Festival, Kim Moore will be at theCarlisle Book Festival, and Jo...
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Francesca Rhydderch and Jo Mazelis at Velvet Coalmine

Friday 4th September, 15:00
Join Francesca Rhydderch, author of the 2014 Wales Book of the Year The Rice Paper Diaries, and Jo Mazelis, author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning Significance, for Literature Sunday at Preachers Bar where they will be discussing their fantastic novels as part of the 2015 Velvet Coalm...
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Jo Mazelis Nominated for Pushcart Prize

Monday 16th November, 09:54
Jo Mazelis, author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning novelSignificance, has been nominated for The Pushcart Prizefor her short story, 'Whose Story is this Anyway?'.Since 1976 The Pushcart Prize has accepted nominations of poetry, short stories and essays exclusively from small m...
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Significance by Jo Mazelis in Wordery’s Top 10 Fiction list

Tuesday 26th January, 11:43
Significance by Jo Mazelis, a winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015, has been chosen by Wordery as one of the top ten independent fiction books of 2015. Other titles listed include Marlon James’ Booker Prize-winner, A Brief History of Seven Killings, and Grief is the Thing with Fe...
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First Thursday with Katrina Naomi, Jo Mazelis and Kerry Lee-Powell

Thursday 24th March, 17:20
Celebrate new poetry and fiction at April’s First Thursday at the Chapter Arts centre. This month's event features poet Katrina Naomi and her new collection: The Way the Crocodile Taught Me, Jo Mazelis and her haunting new collection of short stories, Ritual, 1969, as well as special guest...
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Meet Jo Mazelis at Galerie Simpson | Ritual, 1969 book launch

Tuesday 5th April, 15:38
Join Jo Mazelis at Galerie Simpson, Swansea, for the launch of her haunting new short story collection, Ritual, 1969.Jo’s novel Significance was a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner, and this new collection of stories ups the tension by introducing an elusive strand of the otherwordly.Jo w...
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Ritual, 1969 book launch at John Smith’s, Swansea

Wednesday 6th April, 14:35
Join Jo Mazelis at John Smith’s bookshop, Swansea, for the secondRitual, 1969launch event.Jo’s novelSignificancewas a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner, and this new collection of stories ups the tension by introducing an elusive strand of the otherwordly.Jo will be reading and sign...
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Jo Mazelis in conversation with Judith Barrow, Llangwm Literary Festival

Monday 8th August, 19:23
Jo Mazelis will read from and discuss Significance(Seren 2014), which won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2015. Shewill also read from her latest book, Ritual, 1969, a darkly gothic collection of storieswhichexplores the unsettling borderland between reality and the supernatural. Tickets: &po...
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Four Seren authors at the inaugural Llangwm Literary Festival

Thursday 11th August, 09:42
The inaugural Llangwm Literary Festival begins tomorrow, and among the many fantastic events in store are three with Seren authors.Taking place in a beautiful former fishing village nestled on the Cleddau,on the edge of the Pembrokeshire Coastal National Park, the Llangwm Literary Festival features ...
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Win a copy of Significance, Jo Mazelis’ Jerwood Prize-winning novel

Monday 6th February, 11:03
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Jo Mazelis’ award-winning novel,Significance.To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st March:https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signupSignificance was a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner, 2015. Up for grabs in this giveaway is a cop...
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Ritual, 1969 Longlisted for Edge Hill Prize

Tuesday 21st March, 10:35
The longlist for the Edge Hill Prize 2017 has just been announced, with Jo Mazelis’ gothic and uncanny short story collection, Ritual, 1969, featuring alongside forty other titles from both new and established writers, such as Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), Su...
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Jo Mazelis | Llandeilo Lit Fest

Sunday 2nd April, 10:54
The atmospheric Horeb Chapel is the perfect location for a moonlight reading of Jo Mazelis’s award winning poetry. Jo is a novelist, short story writer, poet, photographer and essayist who was born and educated in Swansea, where she currently lives with her husband, the historian, Mark Matthew...
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Two Seren authors shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year

Tuesday 10th October, 09:42
The Wales Book of the Year shortlist has been revealed, and it features not one but two Seren authors.In the running for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award is Rhiannon Hooson’s beautifully resonant debut poetry collection, The Other City, with its sharply-focused poems, some referencing Greek myt...
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