Editing and Submitting with the Seren Poetry Editors

Rhian Edwards is a multi-award-winning poet and poetry editor at Seren Books. Her first collection Clueless Dogs (Seren, 2012) won Wales Book of the Year 2013 and was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2012. Rhian also won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, winning both the Judges and Audience award. Rhian’s second collection The Estate Agent’s Daughter (Seren, 2020) was a National Poetry Day Recommended Read for 2020. Rhian’s poems have appeared in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, New Statesman, Spectator, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Arete, London Magazine, Stand and Planet. 

Zoë Brigley is a Welsh-American writer who works as Assistant Lecturer at the Ohio State University. She is an award-winning writer, receiving an Eric Gregory Award for the best British poets under 30, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Zoë is the editor of Poetry Wales and Poetry Editor for Seren Books, together with Rhian Edwards. She has three Poetry Book Society recommended collections: The Secret (2007), Conquest (2012), and Hand & Skull (2019) all published by Bloodaxe. Her poetry chapbooks include Aubade After a French Movie (Broken Sleep, 2020) and Into Eros (Verve Publishing, 2021), and her non-fiction work include Notes from a Swing State (Parthian Books, 2020) and Otherworlds: Writing on Nature and Magic (Broken Sleep, 2021). In 2021, Zoë co-edited 100 Poems to Save the Earth (Seren) together with Kristian Evans, and she is also an editor for Modron magazine, writing on the ecological crisis.