Green Man 2018: Talking Shop Owen Sheers, the BAFTA-nominated Welsh novelist, poet and playwright, who will read from To Provide All People – a poem to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS – and also provide comments on The Green Hollow, his remarkable memorial to the Aberfan mining disaster. More information: www.greenman.net

Aberfan: The Green Hollow receives Television Drama Award Gwobr Drama Deledu i Aberfan: The Green Hollow Owen Sheers receives the Writer award Llongyfarchiadau i Owen Sheers am y Wobr Awdur More: www.bafta.org/wales/awards/winners-announced-2017-british-academy-cymru-awards

Owen Sheers Reformations 11: Men Hay Festival 2017, Tuesday 30 May 2017 Questions of masculinity have been at the heart of Sheers’ writing for 20 years. This event is available to listen via the Hay Player. Price: £1.00 To purchase, or for more information, please visit: www.hayfestival.com/p-12261-owen-sheers.aspx

Aberfan: The Green Hollow, written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster has been nominated for a BAFTA TV Award. The 2017 British Academy Television Awards will be held on 14 May 2017: www.bafta.org/television/awards

Pink Mist Tour Between 23rd January 2017 and 1st April 2017 this Bristol Old Vic production will visit 12 venues in Bristol, Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Ipswich, Oxford, Edinburgh, Eastbourne, Bangor, Swansea, Winchester, Birmingham and Leeds. Bristol Old Vic 23 – 28 January, 7.30pm, 2.30pm (Saturday matinees) Post show Q&A with Owen Sheers, Friday 27 January. Join Pink Read More …

Catalyst Global Media, the London production company led by Charlotte Walls, is to make a movie based on poet and novelist Owen Sheers’ verse-drama “Pink Mist,” which explores the human cost of modern warfare, inspired by interviews with soldiers and their families. Sheers said: “The ongoing issue of the shadows cast by conflict into civilian Read More …

Pink Mist is back for a national tour kicking off in January 2017. Pink Mist tells the story of three young Bristol men deployed to Afghanistan. Returning to the women in their lives who must now share the physical and psychological aftershocks of their service, Arthur, Hads and Taff find their journey home is their Read More …

Conversations on a bench BBC Radio 4 4.30pm 16th October 2016 A specially commissioned work by poet Owen Sheers draws on the voices and stories of those who sit and contemplate the inscription, “Born to be Wild – Dinks Nash – Loved Forever.” The views from the bench of the Gower Peninsula and the threatened Tata Read More …

A Poem in the voice of Aberfan Then and Now, by Owen Sheers A drama portraying the events surrounding the deaths of 144 people in a Welsh village will be aired to mark the 50th anniversary of the tragedy. In 1966, a coal waste tip slid down a mountain above Aberfan, south Wales, onto the village Read More …

Swansea University has been awarded funding to hold events during the ‘Hopes and Fears’ festival week, 17 – 25 November 2016. During this year’s Festival, Swansea University’s hub ‘Dreams, Demons and Discovery’ will inspire you to express your hopes and fears in creative ways. Join us for a range of free events across the festival Read More …