Sarah R. Persson
Author
About
Sarah R. Persson is a writer and educator who earned a distinction from the Creative Writing M.A at Swansea University (2023). This March, she featured in the New Welsh Voices edition of Poetry Wales and her first novel ‘The Flaxen Child’ has just been requested in full by a literary agent as part of the Mslexia Extravaganza.
Last year, Sarah’s poetry was published in Mslexia and in a 6-week series for Nation Cymru. She was invited to perform at Tranås Arts festival in Sweden and at Dylan Thomas’s birthplace. Sarah’s poetry was highly commended in the Classical Association poetry competition.
Sarah recently collaborated with visual artist Nick Davies to write ‘Moon Merging Women’, exhibited at Penwith Gallery in Cornwall until January 2025.
Sarah is committed to the power of creative communities is a founder of These3Streams arts festival. She runs a monthly Poetry and Pints night.
In December, Sarah started a ‘radio show for writers’ which airs each month on Bro Radio. She intends to grow her audience, which has already reached Italy, and become a powerful voice in championing Welsh authors.
Areas of Interest and Specialism:
Poetry: writing and reviewing
Arts events and organisation: building creative communities
Education: teaching of Creative Writing, particularly within girls' education
Myths, legends, folklore and the history of South Wales
Scandinavian myths: the Poetic Edda
Short Stories
