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September 10, 2014
Poetry Wales Celebrates 50 Years!
Poetry Wales will be holding a special event in September to mark its 50th Birthday. The magazine was founded in 1965 and has been publishing poetry and criticism from Wales and beyond for nearly 50 years. The first issue of the 50th Volume was publi…
August 22, 2014
10 Amazing Facts You Didn’t Know About Hay-On-Wye
To celebrate the launch of Jim Saunders’ new book, Hay – Landscape Literature and the Town of Books, here’s 10 amazing facts you may not known about the famous festival town. 1) Despite its Herefordshire postal address, Hay-on-Wye is actually in Wale…
August 20, 2014
Sunday Poem – Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Kim Moore’s Sunday Poem is the brilliant Boom! by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
August 14, 2014
A New Short Story For August
Seren’s short story for August comes from writer and translator Eluned Gramich. Eluned’s story, Pulling Out, highlights a developing problem in Japan of young men and women withdrawing from everyday life, locking themselves away in their bedrooms. Th…
July 11, 2014
Francesca Rhydderch wins Fiction Prize at Wales Book of the Year
Francesca Rhydderch’s debut novel The Rice Paper Diaries, has been awarded the prestigious Wales Book of the Year English Language Fiction Prize. Owen Sheers scooped the overall prize of Wales Book of the Year as well as the Roland Mathais prize for…
July 3, 2014
Nine reasons to vote for The Rice Paper Diaries for the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award.
Francesca Rhydderch has been shortlisted for The Wales Book of The Year Award for her debut novel The Rice Paper Diaries. Nine of the shortlisted English language titles will also compete for the People’s Choice Award, where you get to have your say…
June 5, 2014
Francesca Rhydderch Needs You!
Francesca Rhydderch needs your votes to help her come out on top in the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award. the nine shortlisted Wales Book of the Year English language titles will complete for the People’s Choice Award, and we need you to…
May 16, 2014
Jaki McCarrick is on the 2014 Edge Hill Short Story shortlist!
The Scattering by Jaki McCarrick has been shortlisted for the 2014 Edge Hill Short Story award. Jaki’s story The Visit has already won the Wasafari prize for new fiction. Joining Jaki on the £5000 shortlist is fellow Welsh publisher, Parthian’s Rache…
May 16, 2014
Jaki McCarrick Shortlisted for the 2014 Edge Hill Short Story Prize
The Scattering by Jaki McCarrick has been shortlisted for the 2014 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Jaki’s story The Visit has already won the Wasafari prize for new fiction. Joining Jaki on the £5000 prize shortlist is fellow Welsh publisher Parthian’s…
