Rhian is a multi-award winning poet. Her first collection of poems Clueless Dogs (Seren 2012) won Wales Book of the Year 2013, the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry 2013 and Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice 2013. It was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2012.
Rhian’s second full collection The Estate Agent’s Daughter (Seren 2020) was a National Poetry Day Recommended Read for 2020.
Rhian also has two pamphlets of poems Parade the Fib, (Tall-Lighthouse 2008), which was awarded the Poetry Book Society Choice for autumn 2008. Brood (Seren 2017) is an illustrated pamphlet of bird poems, containing beautiful and original charcoal magpie drawings by artist Paul Edwards.
Rhian is also the current winner of the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, winning both the Judges and Audience award. She was also the first Writer in Residence at Aberystwyth Arts Centre from March to June 2013.
Rhian’s poems have appeared in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, New Statesman, Spectator, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Arete, Prague Revue, the London Magazine, Stand, Planet Magazine, the New Welsh Review and the Lampeter Review.
Rhian is a poet and musician and has delivered over 400 stage, radio and festival performances world-wide. She lives in South Wales with her daughter Megan.
THESE THREE STREAMS FESTIVAL
COCKTAILS & POEMS AT THE OLD SWAN
FRIDAY 7TH JUNE 2024
Venue: The Old Swan Inn,
Address: Llantwit Major, CF61 1SB
Time: 5.30PM
Cost: £20 (including mini cocktails)
Where the poems match the potions. Join us for an hour of poetry and cocktails in this exciting opening event featuring award-winning poets, Rhian Edwards and Bethany Handley, and our own local heroes, Sarah Persson and Laura Sheldon. Ticket price includes mini-cocktails. A lubricating start to the festival…
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POETRY & WELLNESS WORKSHOPS @ BRIDGEND CARERS CENTRE
4 X creative writing workshops, incorporating mindfulness and wellness
TUESDAY 25TH JUNE, 2ND JULY, 9TH JULY & 16TH JULY 2024
Time: 10AM TO MIDDAY
Venue: Bethlehem Church Life Centre, Cefn Road, Cefn Cribwr, Bridgend, CF32 0AA
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SUBMITTING & EDITING POEMS WITH ZOE BRIGLEY
MONDAY 29TH JULY TO FRIDAY 2ND AUGUST 2024
Event: Sunday Published During the Pandemic
Date: Monday 29th July to Friday 2nd August 2024
Cost: £725 per person
Tutored retreat with award-winning poets Zoe Brigley, editor of Poetry Wales, and Rhian Edwards, who are both joint poetry editors at Seren with a guest reading by Abeer Ameer.
Are you looking to submit your poetry for the first time? Are you looking to better understand and craft your creative voice? Do you want to learn how to create a concise and cohesive body of work? Join us for a replenishing, instructive and motivational week of poetry writing and editing with the multi-award-winning poets and joint poetry editors of Seren Books, Rhian Edwards and Zoë Brigley.
During the week, Zoë and Rhian will run group workshops on editing your poems, collating your poetry into collections and pamphlets, and will be on-hand to offer tips and advice on how to best pitch your work to magazines and publishers for consideration. A one-to-one tutorial with Zoë and Rhian will be offered to each participant and you will be invited to send a up to two poems each ahead of the course for comments and editorial advice.
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PONTY POETRY: POETRY & OPEN MIC
Feature Reading with Rhian Edwards
WEDNESDAY 14TH AUGUST 2024
Time: 7PM to 9.30PM
Venue: Catch Cafe, YMa, TAff Street, Pontypridd, CF37 4TS
Join us for Ponty Poetry, an opportunity for established poets and budding writers in South Wales to read, and listen to, each other’s poetry in the convivial atmosphere of the Cwtch Cafe.
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