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GIG ALERT: New Welsh Review and Parthian Autumn Party


Join us at Storyville Books in Pontypridd to celebrate the latest issue of New Welsh Review with readings from our contributors and special guests.

We’ll be kicking off at 7.15pm with readings from issue contributors Lesley James, Richard Huw Morgan, Natasha Gauthier, Sybilla Harvey, Sam Christie and Roberto Pastore. Special guest Crystal Jeans will also be reading from her brand-new essay collection Blueprints.

Beautifully redesigned by Olwen Fowler, and now edited by Susie Wild, come and celebrate our inaugural new look, new team edition #138.

Free entry, all welcome.

Storyville Books, 8-10 Mill Street, CF37 2SN Pontypridd, United Kingdom

Doors 7pm, Readings start 7.15pm


Lesley James was shortlisted for the Borzello Poetry Prize, part of this year’s New Welsh Writing Awards. She is part of the Representing Wales 2024/5 cohort and has work in Afonydd, Cardiff 75, Spelt and Black Iris. Earlier this year, she won a Big Welsh Rhyme Time commission from Books Trust Cymru.
Richard Huw Morgan has worked professionally in experimental arts in Wales since 1990, as a practitioner, educator and facilitator. In 2011 he instigated Pitch, a weekly arts programme on Radio Cardiff, which ran until 2020.
Natasha Gauthier is the winner of the Borzello Poetry Prize, part of this year’s New Welsh Writing Awards. A Canadian poet and journalist living in Cardiff, Natasha is also the winner of the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25. She established and hosts Tiger Bay Poetry at Chapter Arts Centre.
Sybilla Harvey was runner-up in the Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Setting in this year’s New Welsh Writing Awards. Sybilla grew up in Abergavenny and lives in Brooklyn where she is a creative director for a production company. Her fiction has been recognised in the Berlin Writing Prize, the Mslexia Fiction Competition and the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition.
Sam Christie is the winner of the Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Setting in this year’s New Welsh Writing Awards. Based in mid Wales, Sam has published prose and poetry in literary journals in both the UK and USA. He worked in forestry for several years and many of his stories look back on this time.
Roberto Pastore is a poet based in Cardiff. His first collection Hey Bert was highly commended by the Forward Poetry Prize. His second, Graveyards On Other Planets, is published in October 2025.
Crystal Jeans’ collection of stories Light Switches are my Kryptonite was awarded the Wales Book of the Year. Her recent fiction includes The Inverts and Accidental Darlings. Her debut short-story collection The Vegetarian Tigers of Paradise was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She lives in Pontypridd.










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