This is going to be great! Readers added include Mari Ellis, Natalie Ann Holborow, Mark Blayney, Rhys Owain Williams, Tracey Rhys, Lee Prosser plus music and readings from Siôn Tomos Owen and Tyler Keevil and his brother. More TBA! We are there 11am-12noon Sat and 11am-3pm Sun (music on Sunday too) and as a bonus, I'll be reading too. Come along! (Friends who fancy reading too drop me a line and I'll see if I can fit you in).
Huge congratulations to Natasha Gauthier, Winner of the Borzello Trust Poetry Prize – winning a £500 development publishing contract with us – announced at our New Welsh Writing Awards ceremony in Abergavenny last night. It was a great pleasure to judge this award with Niall Griffiths. And congratulations to all the shortlisted poets whose work you can read in our next issue (138). Also, many congratulations to Sam Christie who won the The Rheidol Prize in the New Welsh Writing Awards with his story ‘The Widowmaker’ (judged by former NWR editor Gwen Davies and author David Lloyd Owen). Winning a £1000 development publishing contract with us. The two runners-ups prizes went to Natalie Ann Holborow with her story ‘The Man Who Knew Things’ and Sybilla Harvey with her story ‘The Flattening’. Both winning a creative residency with Gladstone's Library and Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre. You can read all three stories in our next issue of New Welsh Review .
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