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Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 15h
Had fun writing this!
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 15h
Have you ever wondered what writers listen to when working on a book? In today’s guest post, @alhub.bsky.social shares some of the songs he listened to whilst writing his debut novel ‘Storm’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/10/gues.... Find his book in bookshops from today!
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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 15h
WOHOO
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 17h
In @alhub.bsky.social’s scintillating debut the university town of Aberystwyth is held captive by a violent storm. With weird things happening all over town, Josephine is caught in the middle. But something is watching and it’s about to go walking again... Buy now www.serenbooks.com/book/storm/
This cover shows the clock tower in Aberystwyth standing ominously tall in the midst of a violent storm. A young woman with an umbrella walks along the promenade. The text reads: Storm, Alex Hubbard.
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 15h
Have you ever wondered what writers listen to when working on a book? In today’s guest post, @alhub.bsky.social shares some of the songs he listened to whilst writing his debut novel ‘Storm’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/10/gues.... Find his book in bookshops from today!
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 17h
In @alhub.bsky.social’s scintillating debut the university town of Aberystwyth is held captive by a violent storm. With weird things happening all over town, Josephine is caught in the middle. But something is watching and it’s about to go walking again... Buy now www.serenbooks.com/book/storm/
This cover shows the clock tower in Aberystwyth standing ominously tall in the midst of a violent storm. A young woman with an umbrella walks along the promenade. The text reads: Storm, Alex Hubbard.
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 5d
We’re delighted that both Bethany Handley and @alisonbinney.bsky.social are Highly Commended in this year’s @forwardprizes.bsky.social www.serenbooks.com/2025/10/beth.... Their Highly Commended poems are both in the ‘Forward Book of Poetry 2026’.
Photo of the Forward Book of Poetry alongside copies of The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning and Cling Film.
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 6d
You can now take @natholborow.bsky.social’s ‘Wild Running: South Wales’ with you on the go! Buy the ebook on our website through our partners Glassboxx or from your favourite ebook provider www.serenbooks.com/book/wild-ru...
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 6d
Treat yourself to some new poetry this #NationalPoetryDay! There’s a whole range of great poetry books waiting to be discovered on our website www.serenbooks.com/books/poetry/
Copies of I Sing to the Greenhearts, Cling Film, Octopus Mind, Significant Wow, Into the Same Sound Twice and The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning.
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Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social · 6d
Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Let's hear it for the poets and poetry publishers who enrich our lives! Here are just a few to get us started ❤️

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 7d
Published today, ‘Gwrachod Cymru | Welsh Witches’ by Efa Lois is the perfect autumn read 🍂 ✨ This fascinating compendium explores the stories of over 100 witches from Welsh history & folklore, exposing the misogyny in their narratives & celebrating female power www.serenbooks.com/book/gwracho...
Photo of Gwrachod Cymru Welsh Witches laid out against a plush blanket surrounded by autumnal decor.
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Nia Broomhall @niaandthepoems.bsky.social · 8d
Absolutely loved this from @alisonbinney.bsky.social and @serenbooks.bsky.social. It’s so full of love.
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 9d
In ‘Film & TV Places of Wales’ Celyn Jones and Frances Turpin zoom in on Wales’ cultural and artistic links to cinema exploring homegrown classics, TV favourites and Hollywood epics from Wales’ on-screen history. Publishing 20 October. Pre-order now www.serenbooks.com/book/film-tv...
This cover shows a wide shot image of people in a truck filming a white car driving into the distance beneath a bright blue sky. The text reads Film & TV Places of Wales. Celyn Jones and Frances Turpin.
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 15d
From today you can hear @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social talking about the poetry, wild swimming and ‘Battery Rocks’ on the BBC Countryfile #Plodcast. Listen here www.countryfile.com/podcast. Buy your copy of ‘Battery Rocks’ from your local bookshop!
Katrina Naomi holding up a copy of Battery Rocks and her Holyer an Gof Prize certificate.
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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 16d
✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨

✨'This is not a play: mixing up the genres' with Amanda Dalton
Mon 29 Sept, 7pm

✨'Self-Portrait, with Poems' with Jonathan Edwards
Tues 30 Sept, 11am

Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 19d
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Testimony’ by @alisonbinney.bsky.social from her collection ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/09/frid...
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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · 23d
Here's my 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter for Sept: info on 'dance as if' launch events in Cornwall & London @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social & recommending @mptmagazine.bsky.social Plus an article on how I write @serenbooks.bsky.social See mailchi.mp/10e91fb65935...
#danceasif #poetry #howiwrite
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 23d
So much looking forward to this! @serenbooks.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 23d
Reading with @notjustdancing.bsky.social & Louise Machen on Saturday 27 September with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang. What fabulous company!! 🤩https://poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/sasha-dugdale-louise-machen-with-music-from-li-lu-lulu-yang-27-september-2025/
Sasha Dugdale, Deryn Rees-Jones & Louise Machen with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang: 27 September 2025
Please join us on Saturday 27 September 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need re…
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8
Coming soon: Laura Wainwright’s debut poetry collection is a powerful exploration of resilience in the face of ecological and human crises. Publishing 15 October. Pre-order now www.serenbooks.com/book/the-sto...
This cover shows a lino cut print of a jagged seed head bursting against a blue sky. The text reads: The Storm's Flora, Laura Wainwright
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8
“...an excellent present for anyone interested in a slightly offbeat view of Wales.” – Desmond Clifford reviews ‘Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory’ for @nation.cymru. Catch Carwyn Jones in conversation with Adeloa Dewis at #WaterstonesCardiff tomorrow, 9 September, to find out more!
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · Sep 6
At the heart of all these stories is what might be called the heritage dilemma. As RS Thomas famously notes, there is no future and no present in Wales, only the past! ✍️Desmond Clifford nation.cymru/culture/revi...
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8
Don’t forget you can pre-order ‘Wild Running’ on our website or in your local bookshop www.serenbooks.com/book/wild-ru...
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Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social · Sep 7
A little extract of Wild Running in The Independent this morning, exploring Pen Y Fan and focusing on women's safety in running 🏃‍♀️ @serenbooks.bsky.social

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Wild running gives me freedom, but I’m always looking over my shoulder
In this abridged extract from award-winning poet and writer Natalie Holborow’s new book ‘Wild Running’, she follows a trail around the Brecon Beacons in South Wales while reflecting on women’s safety
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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Sep 3
I'll be running two online #creativewriting courses this autumn 🍁 createdtoread.com/more-online-... There's also a fee waiver scheme & free places for Aber uni students & staff!
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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · Sep 3
This is an incredible, awe inspiring book @serenbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #poetry
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3
Coming soon: This autumnal weather 🍂 has us excited to reveal the cover for Efa Lois’ new book ‘Gwrachod Cymru | Welsh Witches’! Publishing on 1 October, her illustrated guide to the witches of Wales is a must-read for anyone interested in Welsh history & folklore www.serenbooks.com/book/gwracho...
This cover is illustrated in Efa Lois' signature style. It shows five of the witches from the book framed by dandelions, mushrooms and animals. The text reads: Gwrachod Cymru Welsh Witches. Efa Lois.
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 1
On Tuesday 9 September, Carwyn Jones will be at Waterstones Cardiff discussing his new book ‘Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory' with Adeloa Dewis, presenter of the ITV Wales TV show of the same name. Get tickets here www.waterstones.com/events/vanis...
Vanished Wales: An evening with Carwyn Jones and Adeloa Dewis. Join us in welcoming Carwyn Jones and Adeloa Dewis as they discus ITV Wales' popular television show Vanished Wales and celebrate the publication of a book based on the new series. Tuesday 9 September, 7pm.
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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Aug 30
I have a new #ekphrastic poem in the @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social responding to this painting by Gainsborough from the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social collection - www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast... @serenbooks.bsky.social
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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · Aug 27
Alex Hubbard's debut 'Storm' is set to be disruptive, turbulent and mesmerising... Watch out! ⛈️

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Pre-order now – Publishing 8 October 2025 Josephine is already haunted. At university in Aberystwyth, she is grateful to be away from home, and further everyday from the past. When she kisses Glynn on...
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