Sarah R. Persson

About

Sarah R. Persson is a writer and educator living in Wales.  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; she is committed to the power of creative communities is a founder of These3Streams arts festival.   She also runs a monthly Poetry and Pints night.  Sarah is also an experienced facilitator of workshops.

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.

Sarah has an M.A in Creative Writing from Swansea University (2023- distinction)

Areas of Interest and Specialism:

• Poetry: writing and reviewing

• Middle Grade Fiction

• Building creative communities

• Education: teaching of Creative Writing, particularly within girls' education

• Myths, legends, folklore of Wales and Sweden

• Short Stories 

• Presentation skills