Sarah Persson
@sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social
Author 🐺 Poet. English teacher ♥️ Writing for pleasure. Folklore of Sweden 🇸🇪 and Wales. 🏴 Host of ‘First Draft’ at Bro Radio 📻 Co-founder of These3Streams arts festival ✍️ MA in creative writing from Swansea. www.sarahpersson.com
Great to have @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social at Poetry and pints on Sunday!!
Poet travels to the Old Swan Inn in Llantwit Major for a feature and Bardic Vintage bookshop on Sunday.
Thank you Sarah and Kath for making me feel so welcome. 💫 🏴
@sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social
Thank you Sarah and Kath for making me feel so welcome. 💫 🏴
@sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Great to have @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social at Poetry and pints on Sunday!!
I’m delighted too! Such an honour to be amongst such great writers!!
Delighted to reveal the shortlisted writers and poets in the New Welsh Writing Awards! The winners (announced on the 3/7) for both The Rheidol Prize & The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize will receive a development publishing contract with @parthianbooks.bsky.social!
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April 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I’m delighted too! Such an honour to be amongst such great writers!!
One of the best things about festivals, is meeting other writers. Wanted to write about Louise’s visit to Wales with her ‘benching’ project. We met at Tranås Fringe last summer. nation.cymru/culture/swed...
Swedish poet visits Anglesey for Benching Project
Sarah Persson Swedish poet Louise Halvardsson visited Wales this February to continue with her poetry project ‘Benching’. Louise began the ‘Benching’ project to mark her 40th birthday as a protest aga...
nation.cymru
March 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
One of the best things about festivals, is meeting other writers. Wanted to write about Louise’s visit to Wales with her ‘benching’ project. We met at Tranås Fringe last summer. nation.cymru/culture/swed...
March 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@marcellenewbold.bsky.social doing lots of great things!!
And here she is, fresh off the @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social press🔥
Read all the poems here: fullhouseliterary.com/issue1-2025
Read all the poems here: fullhouseliterary.com/issue1-2025
March 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
@marcellenewbold.bsky.social doing lots of great things!!
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This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Whisper It’ by @emilycotterill.bsky.social from her collection ‘Significant Wow’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/02/frid...
February 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Whisper It’ by @emilycotterill.bsky.social from her collection ‘Significant Wow’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/02/frid...
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Exciting news! A free-to-attend summer school in September in Oxford on fantasy with publishers, authors and experts, generously sponsored by Bloomsbury. All the details here:
fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/home
fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Oxford–Bloomsbury Fantasy Summer School 2025
fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk
February 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Exciting news! A free-to-attend summer school in September in Oxford on fantasy with publishers, authors and experts, generously sponsored by Bloomsbury. All the details here:
fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/home
fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Could you do a quietish place with an Alexa playing/ some wifi headphones to tune into whatever you’re playing? You’d need wipes for in between users, but could be lovely with beanbags / crafts while people listen. Have a blackboard saying what’s playing when all dat… Just my thoughts! Good luck!
February 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Could you do a quietish place with an Alexa playing/ some wifi headphones to tune into whatever you’re playing? You’d need wipes for in between users, but could be lovely with beanbags / crafts while people listen. Have a blackboard saying what’s playing when all dat… Just my thoughts! Good luck!
So delighted to be in amongst such amazing writers in the new. Thank you @poetrywales.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
So delighted to be in amongst such amazing writers in the new. Thank you @poetrywales.bsky.social
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Take this week-long Digital Detox to unplug on a fully catered retreat led by a certified yoga practitioner and find space to disconnect from the online and reconnect with your writing in a tranquil, supportive, and safe environment.
Please share :)
Please share :)
Digital Detox Retreat: Reconnect with yourself and your writing - Canolfan Ysgrifennu Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre
tynewydd.wales
February 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Take this week-long Digital Detox to unplug on a fully catered retreat led by a certified yoga practitioner and find space to disconnect from the online and reconnect with your writing in a tranquil, supportive, and safe environment.
Please share :)
Please share :)
Ah well… you did ask 😂
February 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Ah well… you did ask 😂
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new from @lucentdreaming.bsky.social ming
'Beyond/Tu Hwnt'
Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers
📖 sample to peek inside and share
www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...
'Beyond/Tu Hwnt'
Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers
📖 sample to peek inside and share
www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...
Sample of "Beyond/Tu Hwnt"
Peek inside this book and discover another great read.
www.jellybooks.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
new from @lucentdreaming.bsky.social ming
'Beyond/Tu Hwnt'
Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers
📖 sample to peek inside and share
www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...
'Beyond/Tu Hwnt'
Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers
📖 sample to peek inside and share
www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...
www.pushcartprize.com I think some of the Welsh presses nominate people. I think it means your poem was great!
Welcome to Pushcart Press: Publishers of The Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
www.pushcartprize.com I think some of the Welsh presses nominate people. I think it means your poem was great!
Handwritten note with @newwelshreview.bsky.social. What a totally lovely touch.
February 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Handwritten note with @newwelshreview.bsky.social. What a totally lovely touch.
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The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025
Please share :)
www.writingtheheroine.com
Please share :)
www.writingtheheroine.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025
Please share :)
www.writingtheheroine.com
Please share :)
www.writingtheheroine.com
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The Open University/Institute of English Studies are delivering a series of 3 Seminars on Creative Writing and Neurodivergence
Tue 18 Feb 2025 to Tue 4 Mar 2025. The seminars are free, but booking is essential.
Details in the link.
Please share :)
Tue 18 Feb 2025 to Tue 4 Mar 2025. The seminars are free, but booking is essential.
Details in the link.
Please share :)
Contemporary Cultures of Writing
This seminar series looks at the ways in which neurodivergence intersects with creative writing, providing an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and teachers to explore linkages, disconnects ...
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February 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Open University/Institute of English Studies are delivering a series of 3 Seminars on Creative Writing and Neurodivergence
Tue 18 Feb 2025 to Tue 4 Mar 2025. The seminars are free, but booking is essential.
Details in the link.
Please share :)
Tue 18 Feb 2025 to Tue 4 Mar 2025. The seminars are free, but booking is essential.
Details in the link.
Please share :)
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The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below.
Please share :)
www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...
Please share :)
www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...
February 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below.
Please share :)
www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...
Please share :)
www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...
Lots of treats as you go!
February 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Lots of treats as you go!
Just seen this- hope it went well xx
February 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Just seen this- hope it went well xx
@carolehailey.bsky.social shared the best phrase: write like a dog: edit like a cat. I thought this was amazing. You aren’t mauling, you’re making your work precise, balancing it on top of a fence with no chance of falling. And that turned out as a poem. Well, well.
February 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
@carolehailey.bsky.social shared the best phrase: write like a dog: edit like a cat. I thought this was amazing. You aren’t mauling, you’re making your work precise, balancing it on top of a fence with no chance of falling. And that turned out as a poem. Well, well.
Beginning to research Welsh standing stones, and stone circles for a collaboration project with some fantastic artists. Makes my brain very excited!
February 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Beginning to research Welsh standing stones, and stone circles for a collaboration project with some fantastic artists. Makes my brain very excited!
This is the loveliest of books. Welsh and English versions of each story, and gorgeous, bright, inviting illustrations. Great for schools!
The Mab is now out in paperback - available instore or online
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The Mab
Eleven stories from the Welsh classic The Mabinogion, being some of the oldest stories ever written down, retold by contemporary authors, in a beautifully illustrated dual language edition. The Mab is...
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February 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This is the loveliest of books. Welsh and English versions of each story, and gorgeous, bright, inviting illustrations. Great for schools!
Congratulations
February 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Congratulations