Seren at 40: A Showcase of Irish Authors

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Our first event celebrating 40 years of independent publishing at Seren, featuring four Seren authors from Ireland and Northern Ireland.

To celebrate our 40th anniversary, we’re hosting a new series of online events celebrating our authors and backlist. For this first event, we welcome four award-winning writers, from our strong and growing list of Irish authors, for an evening of poetry and fiction. <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/author/siobh%C3%A1n-campbell" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Siobhán Campbell</a> was born in Dublin. She spent a number of years in New York and San Francisco and worked as Managing Editor of Wolfhound Press before joining Faculty at Kingston University in London. Widely published in the USA and UK, she has won awards in the National, Troubadour and Wigtown International competitions. She has published six collections of poetry, most recently <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/heat-signature" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Heat Signature </a>(Seren, 2017).<a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/author/jaki-mccarrick" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jaki McCarrick</a> lives in Dundalk and studied at Trinity College, Dublin. She is an award-winning playwright and short story writer and also writes poetry and novels. Her play Belfast Girls has been performed around the world and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and BBC Tony Doyle Award. Her collection of short stories <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/scattering" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Scattering</a> (Seren, 2014) was shortlisted for Edge Hill Prize. <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/author/eoghan-walls" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Eoghan Walls</a> was born in Derry in Northern Ireland. He studied in Wales, Dublin and Belfast, where he completed a PhD in Phenomenological Poetics in the Seamus Heaney Centre. His first collection of poems, <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/salt-harvest" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Salt Harvest</a> (Seren, 2011), was shortlisted for the Strong Award for Best First Collection. His second collection <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/pigeon-songs" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pigeon Songs</a> (Seren, 2019) was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize. <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/author/angela-graham" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Angela Graham</a> is a Welsh-speaker from Belfast. She is an award-winning TV producer/director, a BAFTA Cymru-nominated screenwriter, and the producer and co-writer of the Oscar-entrant feature film, Branwen. Her debut short story collection <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/city-burning" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A City Burning</a> (Seren, 2020) was recently longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2021. Her debut poetry collection, Shoot, is under consideration with a major poetry publisher. Angela has just completed a book of prose and poetry in which, via a search for her ‘erased’ paternal grandfather and the history of her childhood home in east Belfast, she offers a rare perspective on this working-class heartland of the city. She is currently creating a poetry collection on the theme of Sanctuary in a ground-breaking collaboration with other poets.Registration for this event will close at 6:30pm, half an hour before the start of the event to ensure everyone receives the link. If you have any trouble accessing the event on the night please email sarahjohnson@serenbooks.com.Books by all four of our authors can be found on the Seren website:<a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/heat-signature" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Heat Signature by Siobhán Campbell</a><a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/scattering" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Scattering by Jaki McCarrick</a><a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/pigeon-songs" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pigeon Songs by Eoghan Walls</a><a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/city-burning" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A City Burning by Angela Graham</a>

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