Books Books
Category: Anthologies, Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 256
ISBN: 9781781722343
Publication date: April 7, 2015
Price: £9.99
Out of stock
Category: Anthologies, Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 256
ISBN: 9781781722350
Publication date: April 7, 2015
Price: £7.99
Out of stock
‘All of these short stories crackle with creative skill.’ – The Short Story
The best of contemporary Welsh short-story writing, New Welsh Short Stories offers a wide-ranging view of a country from new and established writers including Stevie Davies, Trezza Azzopardi, Joe Dunthorne, Cynan Jones, Deborah Kay Davies and Rachel Trezise. Stories range from the personal to the universal; from the streets of urban south Wales to the wilder reaches of small town and countryside; from film sets to the limits of time and space.
Other authors include Joao Morais, Zillah Bethell, Sarah Coles, Tyler Keevil, Jo Mazelis, Kate Hamer, Mary-Ann Constantine, Tom Morris, Maria Donovan, Robert Minhinnick, Carys Davies and Holly Múller.
Francesca Rhydderch
Francesca Rhydderch has a degree in Modern Languages from Newnham College, Cambridge, and a PhD in English Literature from Aberystwyth University. She was Editor of the literary magazine New Welsh Review from 2002 to 2008.
Her short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Wales.
She has been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award 2015 and her début novel, The Rice Paper Diaries, won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2014. It was also longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2014. She was recently awarded a Literature Wales bursary to develop a collection of short stories, and has edited New Welsh Short Stories (Seren, 2015).
Other projects include a play in Welsh, Cyfaill, about iconic Welsh-language writer Kate Roberts, commissioned by Theatr Bara Caws, for which she was shortlisted for the Theatre Critics Wales Best Playwright Award 2014.
Picture credit: Keith Morris
