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T here are some new fictional words from me in Issue 3 of  The Lampeter Review , out now:  http://lampeter-review.com/

Lila Azam Zanganeh: 'I've always wanted to push myself to do things I don't know how to do' Lila Azam Zanganeh loved Nabokov from an early age and has now turned her passion into a book. But be warned – it's like nothing you've read before http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/26/lila-azam-zanganeh-nabokov-interview

Blog home Spotlight: Embracing the e-ink Guest blogger and Cardiff writer  Susie Wild  takes a look at new innovations in Welsh publishing which are being celebrated with a launch do in the city tonight Share Comments ( 0 ) Changes are afoot in the world of books and publishing – and a Welsh publisher is embracing them. With attention spans shrinking, short stories, sudden fiction, essays and novellas are rising in popularity and a new digital pamphlet format, thus far only launched in the US is embracing this shift. Now Parthian Books intends to launch four new ebooks in this format – including my novella Arrivals which we'll be celebrating with other Cardiff writers at a launch party tonight. Amazon describes the  Kindle Single  as an ebook that's 'twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book'. The l0,000 to 30,000 word digital pamphlets will be produced by writers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politic...

Hello. The Guardian Cardiff local blog project finished on Friday. I've been a guest blogger for them over the last year, so this is me pulling  a sad face :(  My last Guardian Cardiff blog will go live tomorrow afternoon. To find out what will be happening with Cardiff Blog meetings, tweets and other stuff read on... " Regular readers will have aptly noticed this is the last week of the Guardian Cardiff blog – with our final day  this Friday 27 May . This week we'll be celebrating some of the great reader submissions for the blog including the  best Flickr submissions ,  guest posts  and stories covered on the blog in the last year – and we welcome you to add your comments below on what you've enjoyed. It might also be worth stating here what will happen to some elements of the blog and projects run by Guardian Cardiff. Here's a round up of what will happen to some of what we've been doing in the last year: Cardiff Bloggers Meet Ups   – The meetin...

> REVIEWS FOLK THE OWL | LIVE REVIEW BY  SUSIE WILD   ⋅  MAY 23, 2011  ⋅   POST A COMMENT FILED UNDER    CARDIFF ,  DAVID THOMAS BROUGHTON ,  FOLK ,  FOLK THE OWL ,  GARETH BONELLO ,  JOE COLEMAN ,  MEILIR ,  MEILIR TOMOS ,  MUSIC , THE GATE ,  THE GENTLE GOOD 22 May 2011, The Gate, Cardiff **** Featuring Joe Coleman, The Gentle Good, Meilir and David Thomas Broughton. I don’t know where the folk the audience were, but at least the glorious folk was there in spades. For some reason the crowd stayed away from the  Folk The Owl  gig on Sunday, but despite this, and the sloshed, shambolic host, the evening session was enjoyable due to being blessed with four professional musical talents. Lovely folkster youngster  Joe Coleman , the first of the four bearded rising stars to stand in front of the statement wallpaper, sang a pretty pastoral set of songs accompanied by guitar...

Right all my young, talented writing and publishing and media friends, listen up... The deadline for entry into this year's Dylan Thomas Prize is on 31 May 2011 AKA One Week Tomorrow. So please please enter/ spread the word. You could make yourself/ someone talented £30,000 richer. http://www.dylanthomasprize.com/

Uh oh. Watch out bank account, this website wants me to spend all my money on really good short story collections:  http://meandmybigmouth.typepad.com/shorts/ If you like shorts, read this :)

Event 276  •  Thursday 2 June 2011, 6.45pm  •  Venue: Elmley Foundation Theatre TEN POUND POMS, FISH CAUGHT IN THE WIND AND EVERYTHING I FOUND ON THE BEACH Griffiths emigrated to Australia as a seven year old. Thirty years later he revisits and remembers why he left in the first place. Jones’s second novel  Everything I Found on the Beach  returns to the west Wales coast in the shape of a taut sharp thriller. Wandering American poet Gholson’s novel is about a shoal of fish and the dance troupe who once got naked at the Vatican. http://www.hayfestival.com/p-3640-niall-griffiths-cynan-jones-and-christien-gholson-talk-to-susie-wild.aspx Price: £5.00

'After a boozy intermission, Round 2 featured author/journalist/editor  Susie Wild  (author of  The Art of Contraception ,  winner of the Fiction Book of the Year in the Welsh Icons Awards) going up against Cardiff-born,  John Tripp Spoken Poetry Audience Prize  champ  Mab Jones  (who represented Wales at the  Smithsonian Folklife Festival  in Washington, DC). Wild fired first with a Japan-infused fiction offering, followed by Jones who reeled off three performance poems that had the crowd in throes.'  'Again the judges were turned to, with Whitehead claiming Wild's skewed version of Japan was exactly as he remembered it, Glenn loved Wild's "metronome knees" and mention of ginger nose hair.'  http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/cardiff-ep-1.html

words:  SUSIE WILD It is that time of year again. Time for a trip to join the literati in the town of books. Hay-on-Why-the-hell-not?! Hay Festival has plenty to offer punters in 2011. Much to entertain and even more to expand your mind with, for the ‘Woodstock of the Mind’ is no longer just about books. Among the headline guests will be Nobel Laureates VS Naipaul, JMG le Clezio, Paul Nurse and Mohammed ElBaradei. There will be music, too, thanks to performances from Afro Celt Sound System, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ojos de Brujo, Penguin Cafe, Cerys Matthews and Bob Geldolf. Children are well catered for with Hay Fever, a festival for tots, teens and inbetweens ( www.hayfeverblog.net ) including storytelling, workshops and carnival extravaganzas and run concurrently with the main festival. There will be laughs thanks to comedians Mark Watson, Paul Merton, and Jo Brand. There are historians Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Wood, Bettany Hughes and Niall Ferguson, broadcasters Chris Evans, Je...