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Beyond Words Poetry Night

Seni’s next reading in London will be at Beyond Words Poetry Night on Tuesday May 6th – 7.30 As well as booking headline performers for all to enjoy the event hosts a platform for new, amateur and up and coming talent.Beyond Words is a monthly poetry event in South London that hosts talent from the world of […]

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25th Aldeburgh Poetry Festival

DARK LIGHT Saturday  9 November  – 9.30 to 10.00 Bill Jackson in discussion with Seni Seneviratne against the backdrop of his Aldeburgh exhibition READING: ALTERNATIVE VOICES Sunday 10 November – 12.00 to 1.00 Seni Seneviratne’s mixed Sri Lankan and English heritage both informs her natural lyricism and enlarges her empathy for the marginalised and traumatised across the world. DARK LIGHT […]

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IN OUR OWN WORDS – San Francisco

SRI LANKAN WOMEN WRITERS IN CONVERSATION on March 27th 2013 17.30 TO 19.30 at San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco Dharini Abeysekera, Nayomi Munaweera, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Seni Seneviratne, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Arany Uthayakumar In conjunction with Women’s History Month, Kearny Street Workshop proudly presents In Our Own Words: Sri Lankan Women Writers in Conversation at the […]

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Read Regional Events in February 2013

Last year I was selected as one of 13 authors to appear in libraries and bookshops across the NE and Yorkshire between September 2012 and May 2013.  www.readregional.com You can hear me read from and discuss my collection, The Heart of It, at libraries in Leeds, Sunderland and Gateshead in February.  On 5th February, I […]

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The Next Big Thing

My interactive artist friend Maya Chowdhry has introduced me to The Next Big Thing where I write about one of my books – my poetry collection – The Heart of It Where did the idea come from for the book? I published my first collection, Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin, in 2007 and started work […]

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November 21-28 in Cairo with Sahar El Mougy

Egyptian poet and novelist Sahar El Mougy has invited me to Cairo in November.   Read an article about her.  On Saturday November 24, I will join the writers group Ana Elhekaya to share stories on the theme of Writing the Body – how we perceive our bodies, the role played by (more…)

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