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NWR 100 Preview 14 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 14; subscribe now to view the full poem, ‘So’, by Maria Apichella, by securing your copy; reduced subscription package launched this week, save up to 40% on cover price wiread more...
NWR 100 Preview 15 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 15; subscribe now to read the full story, ‘Boa Constrictor’, Rachel Trezise, by securing your copy; new reduced subscription package launched yesterday, save up to 40% onread more...
NWR 100 Preview 12 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 12; subscribe now to read the full essay, Tokyo Spaces’, Jayne Joso, by securing your copy; new reduced subscription package launched yesterday, save up to 40% on cover priread more...
NWR 100 Preview 13 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 13; subscribe now to view the full photo-essay ‘The Manufactured Coastscape in Wales’; reduced subscription package launched this week, save up to 40% on coveread more...
NWR 100 Preview 10 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 10; subscribe now to read the full story, The Tapas Machine’, by securing your copy; new reduced subscription package launched yesterday, save up to 40% on cover price withread more...
NWR 100 Preview 11 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May; teaser-taster no. 11; subscribe now to read the full essay, Julia Forster's ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, by securing your copy; new reduced subscription package launched yesterday, saveread more...
Tambourine Suckling (Issue: 99)NEW
Wales Book of the Year contender Rhian Edwards on her residency at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, due to end next week.read more...
NWR 100 Preview 8 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 8; subscribe now to read the full poem, ‘Regent’s Canal (by Danbury Street’, Jorge Fondebrider, by securing your copy; new subscription package, save up to 40% on the coread more...
NWR 100 Preview 9 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 9; subscribe now to read the full story, ‘My Mary Jane’ by Rhian Edwards, by securing your copy; today launches new reduced subscription package, save up to 40% on cover pread more...
NWR 100 Preview 6 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 6; subscribe now to read the full story by securing your copy: From ‘The Rice Paper Diaries’, Francesca Rhydderch, NWR 100read more...
NWR 100 Preview 7 (Issue: 99)NEW
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes this Saturday, 25 May; teaser-taster no. 7; subscribe now to read the full poem by securing your copy: From ‘View of Valleys High Street from Café Window’, Jonathan Edwards, NWR 100read more...
NWR 100 Preview 4 (Issue: 99)
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes a week tomorrow, Sat 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 4; subscribe now to read the full story by securing your copy: From ‘Lifeboat’, Cynan Jones, NWR 100read more...
NWR 100 Preview 5 (Issue: 99)
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes a week tomorrow, Sat 25 May. Teaser-taster no. 5; subscribe now to read the full story by securing your copy: From ‘A Perfect Queen’, Inés Garlandread more...
NWR 100 Preview 3 (Issue: 99)
NWR landmark hundredth issue publishes a week Saturday, 25 May. Here is our third preview; 'The Anatomy of Beating' by João Morais; subscribe now to read the full story by securing your copy, available in print, app & epub formats.read more...
DeviantArt Social Network (Issue: 99)
Sam Needs looks at DeviantArt social network for artists and writersread more...
NWR 100 Preview 1 (Issue: 99)
First in a series of seventeen teasers providing previews of contents for NWR's landmark hundredth issue: ‘New Man, Neuman, An Argentinian Family Memoir’ by Andrés Neumanread more...
NWR 100 Preview 2 (Issue: 99)
Second in a series of seventeen teasers providing previews of contents for NWR's landmark hundredth issue: ‘Myth’, poem by Bruce Bondread more...
Official Wales Book of the Year Shortlist (13/05/2013)
Literature Wales Book of the Year Shortlistread more...
NWR's Alternative Wales Book of the Year Shortlist (Issue: 99)
NWR Editor Gwen Davies makes her prediction for Monday's Wales Book of the Year shortlist.read more...
International Art English in Wales (Issue: 99)
Joao Morais surveys recent visual art exhibitions in south Wales and asks why artists' literature tends towards the pretentious in their use of International Art Englishread more...
All the Souls (Issue: 99)
Gwen Davies looks at the novella at the heart of Mary-Ann Constantine's collection, All the Souls.read more...
Dispatch from Slovenia Three, I Am Not an Elf (Issue: 99)
Christopher Meredith’s third and final dispatch from Slovenia.
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Bradley Manning, Baader-Meinhof & Legs Akimbo (Issue: 99)
NWR editor looks at political theatre & fiction in the digital and analogue eras, and offers insight into the creative decisions, as well as serendipity, underpinning magazine commissioning.read more...
Dispatch from Slovenia 2, Dogs and Toddlers (Issue: 99)
Christopher Meredith spent the second part of his two-centre residency at Goga publishers in Novo Mesto, Slovenia; here is the second of three dispatchesread more...
Dispatch from Slovenia 1, A Bend in the River (Issue: 99)
Christopher Meredith spent the second part of his two-centre residency at Goga publishers in Novo Mesto, Slovenia; here is the first of three dispatches.read more...
Mark Tredinnick at Aberystwyth (Issue: 99)
Australian poet and writer on landscape, Mark Tredinnick visits Aberystwyth on NWR Wales Tour.read more...
Mark Tredinnick Filmed at Aberystwyth University (Issue: 99)
Mark Tredinnick filmed reading his poem 'Stopped by the Road at the End of the World' from his collection Fire Diaryread more...
Cynan Jones on the Sunday Times Shortlist (25/02/2013)
NWR contributor Cynan Jones shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award.read more...
NWR Editor's pick of early spring 2013 titles from Wales (Issue: 98)
NWR Editor's pick of early spring 2013 titles from Wales.read more...
Poets who Translate, Richard Gwyn in Istanbul (Issue: 98)
Participating in a LAF translation workshop in Istanbul, Richard Gwyn slurps sahlep, the 'liquid polyfilla of the Levant' and considers translation weirdness on the high street.read more...
Aberaeron author Cynan Jones is £30,000 short story prize nominee (Issue: 98)
Cynan Jones, west Wales author and NWR contributor, has been longlisted for the £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award.read more...
Second Annual Flash Fiction Day, Swansea (Issue: 98)
Second annual Flash Fiction Day at Tapestri, Swansea, Thursday 23 January 2013.read more...
The Ifanca Helene James Short Story Competition (Issue: 98)
One hundred pounds first prize for short story competition in memory of a Welsh writer with Laugharne and Swansea connections.read more...
Paul Griffiths responds to Michael Nath's piece on atheism in NWR 98 (Issue: 98)
Paul Griffiths responds to Michael Nath's piece on atheism in NWR 98read more...
Forests, Rocks, Lakes (Issue: 98)
In the last of seven dispatches, novelist and poet Christopher Meredith reports from this autumn’s residency at Jyväskylä Writers’ House, Finland.read more...
Stopping to Drink, Stopping Drinking (Issue: 98)
In the sixth of seven dispatches, novelist and poet Christopher Meredith reports from this autumn’s residency at Jyväskylä Writers’ House, Finland.read more...
Pictures, Tongues, Cities (Issue: 98)
In the fifth of seven dispatches, novelist and poet Christopher Meredith reports from this autumn’s residency at Jyväskylä Writers’ House, Finland.read more...
How to Pronounce Jyväskylä (Issue: 98)
In the fourth of seven dispatches, novelist and poet Christopher Meredith reports from this autumn’s residency at Jyväskylä Writers’ House, Finland. A lesson from the master, on Finnish pronunciation and eating very very large pizzas.read more...
Finns are Very Polite People (Issue: 98)
In the third of seven dispatches, novelist and poet Christopher Meredith reports from this autumn’s residency at Jyväskylä Writers’ House, Finland.read more...
Aaltitude (Issue: 98)
The second of seven dispatches, novelist and poet Christopher Meredith reports from this autumn’s residency at Jyväskylä Writers’ House, Finland.read more...
Waterland (Issue: 98)
In the first of seven dispatches, novelist and poet Christopher Meredith reports from his residency this autumn at Jyväskylä Writers’ House, Finland.read more...
A Reader’s Christmas Holiday, Best Served Melancholy (Issue: 98)
Nia Davies celebrates the melancholy side of Christmas, in poetry and children's favouritesread more...
Support our publishing industry: buy one literary mag or book produced in Wales this Christmas (Issue: 98)
Julian Ruck on the Politics Show this weekend made the vague and inaccurate statement that there is no public scrutiny of the subsidy made to publish new editions of classic titles of Welsh writing in English in the Library of Wales imprint.read more...
Ruckus in Welsh Subsidised Publishing (Issue: 98)
Public Funding of the Arts in Wales featured on Sunday Politics Show, 2 December.read more...
Rugby Gods and a Cocktail of Bird, Blood, Snow (Issue: 97)
Lloyd Jones and Cynan Jones launch their contributions to Seren's Mabinogion series, See How They Run and Bird, Blood, Snowread more...
Curious Zoo (Issue: 97)
Preview of Jon Gower's show, 'Curious Zoo', Chapter, Cardiff, 12-15 & 19-22 December.read more...
A Day at the Literature Wales Writers’ Fair (Issue: 97)
The Literature Wales Writers’ Fair this autumn assembled a lot of talented and motivated writers, and parts of the presentation delivered useful instruction and ideas.read more...
Jon Gower at Gwyl Lyfrau Morlan, Aberystwyth (Issue: 97)
Gwen Davies in the company of Jon Gower at Gŵyl Lyfrau Morlan, the Welsh-medium annual festival for Welsh books in Aberystwyth town.read more...
New Critical Approach to Brenda Chamberlain Unveiled at Centenary Event (Issue: 97)
New critical approach to Brenda Chamberlain popularised at centenary event with editors Professor Damian Walford Davies and NWR's Gwen Daviesread more...
In Her Element at Penfro (Issue: 97)
NWR enjoys an anthology of Women and the Landscape, In Her Element, at Penfro Book Festival.read more...
Promising Starts (Issue: 97)
Juvenilia and the not so green products of our greatest writersread more...
Summer Reading 2012 (Issue: 96)
New Welsh Review editor Gwen Davies shares her private summer reading pile.read more...
gimme shelter and Tŷ Unnos (21/08/2012)
Review of Antonia Dewhurst at Oriel Davies, Newtown: gimme shelter and Tŷ Unnos Test Bed and the Park, EXHIBITION ENDS 5th SEPTEMBER 2012read more...
Quick checklist of favourites from 26 Treasures (Issue: 96)
Quick checklist of favourites from 26 Treasuresread more...
Sherman Cymru: The First Six Months (Issue: 96)
Sherman Cymru opens onto the student-dominated Senghennydd Road in Cardiff by way of a huge crescent window...read more...
The Last Hundred Years is Not an Historical Novel (Issue: 96)
Booker nominee Patrick McGuinness argues that his Ceausescu era-set novel The Last Hundred Years is not an historical novel, nor should creative writing students worry too much about research, nor indeed about their readers.read more...
New Welsh Review summer issue 2012 (Issue: 96)
HIghlights of the summer 2012 issue, out now.read more...
Wales Book of the Year Shortlist 2012 (Issue: 95)
The Book of the Year shortlist ceremony in Brecon last night was really well attended and organisedread more...
Hay; summer author interviews and books; autumn preview (Issue: 95)
Hay; summer author interviews and books; autumn previewread more...
Konstantin by Tom Bullough, Lunar travel, Four dimensions (Issue: 95)
Faith in science and imperialist mission is at the heart of Tom Bullough’s new novel, Konstantin.read more...
The Archbishop, Arts for Teens and Crashing Cars (12/04/2012)
Literary tourism programme launched by archbishop; Young People's Laureate takes teenagers around her former convent school, Tredegar House; young people from four to eighteen treated to star performances at Arad Goch's Opening Doors performance festivaread more...
Dawn Chorus and Other Performances (Issue: 95)
Fiction Fiesta, The Life of Rebecca Jones, AWWE conference on performance, Agor Drysau Opening Doors festival, ‘Dawn Chorus’ installation at Aberystwyth Arts Centreread more...
Far South for Sales (Issue: 95)
Avoid marketing hooks for centenaries such as Scott of the Antarctic's but don't miss the pearls in the snow such as Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's Banjoread more...
Rhys Davies Short Story Competition (29/02/2012)
Rhys Davies Short Story Competition and University of Glamorgan Author Interview Filmsread more...
26 Treasures (20/02/2012)
26 letters in the alphabet. 4 countries (currently) in the UK. 26 Treasures: The Book, a pan-national poetry anthology, has 10 days to get 151 supportersread more...
Chris Meredith’s new masterpiece The Book of Idiots (13/02/2012)
Christopher Meredith's last novel for adults was published in 1998, so his fanclub's been a long time waiting.read more...
Dorothy Edwards, aesthete or ‘socialist Welsh spy’? (06/02/2012)
This politically engaged author was brought up to expect imminent revolution by a mother who was a pit-head baths campaigner and a father who camped nude 'in order to establish the degree of materialism necessary for human survival.'read more...
Brave New World that Has Such Objects In It (30/01/2012)
My relationship with physical stuff was never easy.read more...
The Klezmer revival in Wales (24/01/2012)
Several Welsh bands are experimenting with the Eastern European Klezmer tradition and finding intriguing parallels.read more...
Handbag etiquette and A.N. Wilson roots for Wales! (23/01/2012)
Happy days, and yet too much pudding chokes the dog, as the Welsh idiom goesread more...
Julie Forster talks to Horatio Clare about The Prince's Pen (16/01/2012)
Horatio Clare's The Prince's Penread more...
Lobbying for Libraries (09/01/2012)
Last month I interviewed poet and author Matthew Francis for New Welsh Review about his upcoming short story collection, Singing a Man to Death.read more...
Rosie's Story (28/11/2011)
I never knew my paternal grandmother. Nor did my father. She was persuaded to leave her marriage and her infant son for $500 in 1925.read more...
Coded Sexualities and Outside Views (21/11/2011)
On Thursday, Alan Llwyd's biography, Kate: Cofiant Kate Roberts 1891-1985, was published, and its claim that our respectable grande dame of Welsh fiction was bisexual, aired last night in an S4C documentary :Kate, Y Cofiant.read more...
Resistance: Between the Page and the Screen (14/11/2011)
Ten days ago, glamorous literary figures Owen Sheers and Francesca Rhydderch met at Aberystwyth Arts Centre to preview the new film Resistance, based on Sheers' novel imagining 1944 Britain under Nazi occupation, and starring Michael Sheen.read more...
Crotch-Rot, Gay Lib, the Payrolled Poseur (The Naked Civil Servant) and Contemporary Gay Fiction (08/11/2011)
As I was an infant in the late sixties, you will forgive my ignorance of how tight men's trousers had become...read more...
Interior Worlds: in conversation with Tessa Hadley and Deborah Kay Davies (07/11/2011)
For an event last week at Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre, I was in conversation with Cardiff authors Tessa Hadley and Deborah Kay Davies (the latter via virtual interview, available in full here shortly).read more...
Halloween Poetry (31/10/2011)
The leaves are starting to fly from the trees in the park across the street, settling in pools of red and brown on the grass, and, for some reason, this makes me want to start reading poetry out loud...read more...
Rory MacLean, Berlin 'Wild Boy Clubbers', Nature Writing, Grief and Belonging (21/10/2011)
In 'Berlin Sensation: Second “Wild Boy” Found!', Rory MacLean's 6 October post on his Goethe Institut-hosted Meet the Germans blog, the Canadian travel writer traces a recent spate of Berlin 'wild boy' discoveries, one lost in the forest, the secread more...
Catherine Fisher our new Young People's Laureate and other matters (18/10/2011)
Being pushed outside your comfort zone is salutary....read more...
Smithy, Super Thursday and the Evergreen Book as Gift. (10/10/2011)
Gavin and Stacey's Smithy did shove up a Severn Bridge toll barrier to 'break into Wales'. But when all's said and done, he is no champion of Wales.read more...
New Critics Day and Seren at Thirty (03/10/2011)
Admin is the bane of our lives, whether we are teachers, nurses or literary magazine editors.read more...
Preview of Fflur Dafydd's The White Trail (26/09/2011)
Fflur Dafydd writes in the current issue of New Welsh Review about the genesis of her second English novel, The White Trail,] published on 18 October.read more...
Academic Novelists are International Wall Breakers (12/09/2011)
Unfortunately Caernarfon-based Patrick McGuinness' Bucharest-set novel The Last Hundred Days didn't make the cut at last week's Man Booker Prize shortlisting...read more...
The Realities of Profit (12/09/2011)
One blessing of the recession is that the Co-op won't start draping tinsel round its Back to School alcove just as soon as those daps sell out. At New Welsh Review, however, September is the new December, since I've just edited all twenty-two pread more...
Coming of Age For All Ages, Teenage Fiction Recommendations (03/09/2011)
My son turned fourteen last month. Despite nights lost to computer games, he does still read...read more...
Goodness Gracious Me: Wake up to Wales, Radio Four! (02/09/2011)
Following his recent piece slamming Bred of Heaven, reviewer Roger Lewis is a dead cert for the Tacsi gong...read more...
Psychogeography: Latest Novels and Nonfiction by Iain Sinclair, Jim Perrin, Tristan Hughes and Richard Collins (08/08/2011)
Guy Debord's label, eschewing urban exclusivity, is 'the study of the... specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.'read more...
Reading India, Translating Wales (05/08/2011)
The half of my family that lives in England is prone to being metrocentric. Or at least my brother-in-law is, claiming as he has that St Albans has more going for it than Aberystwyth...read more...
Seals, Saints and Bardsey as an Urban Centre (04/08/2011)
Author Jon Gower was once a warden on Ynys Enlli...read more...
Book of the Year Winner Proves Illusion will Nourish, even if it won't feed us (18/07/2011)
'Don Quixote,' John Harrison says in his Book of the Year winner Cloud Road, A Journey Through the Inca Heartland is usually portrayed as an old man who... leaves his home and steps into the world of his delusions.... I discovered in the firstread more...
The Kindle Single and Masters of Ecstasy (13/07/2011)
'The Great Master of Ecstasy' was the story that 'sent' me most out of those in Glenda Beagan's book of the same title. 'Muscles Came Easy' is easily the best from Aled Islwyn's collection Out With It...read more...
Forget the Heels (11/07/2011)
'Those shoes will send you straight to hell!' Gee told me on Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Four-inch heels and straps coiling up the leg like a pair of pervy pythons...read more...
Death and the Bread Van (27/06/2011)
Biographers, dealing as they are with lives passing, face time and death head on. Michael Holroyd, author of Augustus John's life, among others, told his Hay audience that his privilege was to write a new book for a dead author. [italic:Animal Magic: A Bread more...
Profile of YA Author Ruta Sepetys (23/06/2011)
One night a few weeks ago I began to read Between Shades of Gray...read more...
Prince Philip, Royal Rings and Sharing the Spoils (20/06/2011)
Fiona Bruce caused a minor stir in our household the other night...read more...
NWR Summer Books Choice (26/05/2011)
Getting ready for Hay next week has meant getting to know the delightful Horatio Clare, who I'll be interviewing on Monday together with Richard Gwyn, both memoirists recalling misspent youths at home and abroad...read more...
Literature Wales Writers' Bursaries (07/04/2011)
Glad to see that bursaries for authors will continue to feature as part of the brand new Literature Wales (formerly Academi) remit...read more...
Roland Mathias Prize 2011 (07/04/2011)
Bleary-eyed from a drive back from Brecon after attending the Roland Mathias award, which has just been made to poet Ruth Bidgood for Time Being (Seren)...read more...
West Papua (05/04/2011)
Outside a West London pub, Serogo repeated my name. I've been asked about it many times before but I've never got this reaction: “Ah Wales - freedom fighters!”read more...
Peter Finch to Leave Academi (04/04/2011)
Peter Finch today announced that he will be leaving Academi literature agency exactly one month hence...read more...
New Look NWR: New Opportunities for Writers (31/03/2011)
Just had the proofs back from designer Rebecca from Mo Publications. Have gone for a new image to launch a new editorial approach...read more...
Wuthering Heights on Stage (20/03/2011)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre's production company this week kickstarted their series of medium-scale literary adaptations to stage with Lucy Gough's Wuthering Heights...read more...
NWR-featured Author makes Times £30,000 Prize Longlist (10/03/2011)
Roshi Fernando is a fantastic up-and-coming author who will be showcased in my first, May, issue of New Welsh Review with an extract from her novel in progress, The Elephant's Wife...read more...
Fuzzy Logic and Inside Out (08/03/2011)
Fantastic lineup headlining Howard Marks planned for an Academi Life Writing day in May...read more...
Richard Ayoade on Submarine (04/03/2011)
Here's a good youtube clip of Richard Ayoade at the Toronto Film Festival...read more...
Underage Identity Theft on World Book Night (04/03/2011)
Aberystwyth small shopkeepers are in turmoil. They've let their usual scapegoat of charity outlets (paying reduced rates and inflated prices, apparently) scarper round the corner...read more...
New Editor Toasts Rock-Chick Hack Dreams (03/03/2011)
I'm toasting World Book Day with a bout of PC-hosted blogging through a Mac-induced migraine after an exhilarating first week as editor of New Welsh Review...read more...
Farewell (21/02/2011)
This week is my last full week at New Welsh Review. New Welsh Review 91, my final issue, will also be published this week...read more...
Jo Shapcott Takes Costa Book of the Year (26/01/2011)
Congratulations to poet Jo Shapcott who has won the Costa Book of the Year with her collection Of Mutability...read more...
And so the End is Near (19/01/2011)
Production rolls on for my final issue and soon it will be time, please...read more...
Coming Up This Spring (13/01/2011)
Currently working on my last issue of New Welsh Review...read more...
2010 Endnote (14/12/2010)
One of the most extraordinary aspects of this job is the way in which each individual issue is so very many months in the making...read more...
More on the HEFCW cuts affecting University of Wales Press (13/12/2010)
An article from The Western Mail], citing Zoe Brigley.read more...
HEFCW withdraws funding from University of Wales Press (10/12/2010)
I would like to comment on a serious issue which poses a very grave risk to the future of scholarship in both the languages of Wales.read more...
Waleshome.org (06/12/2010)
I meant to flag up this great site to readers who might not be aware of it some time ago...read more...
Dylan Thomas Prize Winner Announced (02/12/2010)
Congratulations to poet Elyse Fenton who takes the 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize, a cheque for £30,000 and the all-important profile that the win brings...read more...
Small is Beautiful (30/11/2010)
I thought I'd highlight a recently published book from Cinnamon that looks hugely promising: Exposure...read more...
Picador Poetry Prize Shortlist (29/11/2010)
A little belatedly, for the editor has been in transit, but congratulations to all those shortlisted for this wonderful initiative - the Picador Poetry Prize for an unpublished (at least, unpublished as a first collection) poet...read more...
Picks of 2010 (15/11/2010)
The year is old. And so I weigh up the fortunes of what's passed...read more...
The Michael Murphy Memorial Prize (25/10/2010)
To celebrate National Poetry Day on 8th October 2010, the English Association announced the inauguration of a new biennial prize...read more...
From Aberystwyth to Vancouver – and back (22/10/2010)
Thanks to all those who came through the cold last night to enjoy Tyler Keevil reading from and discussing his work...read more...
T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist 2010 (22/10/2010)
The shortlist for this year's T. S. Eliot Prize has been announced...read more...
In the Pipeline (05/10/2010)
A hectic and highly enjoyable few months, which have seen the editor take her first holiday in some years. But now the tan has faded and onwards we go into the autumn/winter...read more...
It's a Wonderful Job (28/09/2010)
In the thick of production here and annual reporting, to boot...read more...
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist Announced (22/09/2010)
The full 2010 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist has been announced...read more...
Bursaries from Acadmi 2011 (20/09/2010)
If you've ever wondered just how you'll manage to finish that novel, collection of poetry or creative non-ficread more...
Writers' Plaques (20/09/2010)
A new website resource has just been launched from Academi and the Rhys Davies Trust. The resource pinpoints writers' plaques across Wales...read more...
Edwin Morgan 1920-2010 (19/08/2010)
Scotland's finest poet, and one of the finest poets in the UK, Edwin Morgan, has died aged 90...read more...
Academi Baylit 2010 (18/08/2010)
Baylit: Shock of the New returns this October to push even further the boundaries of literature in Cardiff Bay...read more...
Carrie Etter's The Tethers Wins London Festival Fringe Best New Poet Award (18/08/2010)
Carrie Etter - long-time contributor toNew Welsh Review as poet, short story writer and critic -won the London Festival Fringe Best New Poet Award on 16 Augustread more...
Dylan Thomas Prize 2010 - Longlist announced (23/07/2010)
The longlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2010 is as follows...read more...
Philip Gross Scoops Wales Book of the Year (01/07/2010)
Philip Gross has scooped the £10,000 Wales Book of the Year award for I Spy Pinhole Eye, an ekphrastic collaboration with photographer Simon Denison...read more...
Hay Round Two – Trezza Azzopardi and Jon McGregor (07/06/2010)
Last day at Hay, and the festival confounded the weather forecasters. Hot and humid...read more...
Wales Book of the Year Shortlist - 2010 (07/06/2010)
The Wales Book of the Year 2010 Short List was announced in a special event on Sunday 6 June 2010, at The Guardian Hay Festival...read more...
Hay Round One - Dmitry Bykov and Rachel Trezise (31/05/2010)
Opening weekend at the Guardian Hay Festival 2010 and the weather on Saturday was pretty desperate...read more...
Congratulations... (27/04/2010)
To New Welsh Review board member Tiffany Murray, who wins a place on the shortlist of the 2010 Wodehouse Prize, alongside Ian McEwan...read more...
Wales Book of the Year 2010 Longlist announced (21/04/2010)
The longlist for the English language Welsh Book of the Year has been announced...read more...
My Aim is True (25/03/2010)
I was speaking with some new creative writers the other day, focusing on how to get published, maximizing success.read more...
Entrances (16/02/2010)
For those who've yet to discover the pleasures of Canongate's ambitious, fun and eclectic cultural hub, Meet at the Gate, here's a belated link.read more...
Jordison on The Old Devils (16/02/2010)
Nice piece by Sam Jordison in today's Guardian on Amis's 1986 Booker winner The Old Devils.read more...
Simon Harris on The Art of Finishing (16/02/2010)
It's something of an embarrassing admission, but I can't remember the last time I actually finished reading a book.read more...
Absolute Beginners (29/01/2010)
Recently, I was commissioned by Academi to write an online guide about how to become a writer...read more...
Meanwhile... (28/01/2010)
Over at Wales Home, Patrick McGuinness has an article rightly bemoaning the lack of mainstream arts coverage in Wales.read more...
Still Rock n' Roll to Me (28/01/2010)
Author of Diamond Star Halo and New Welsh Review board member Tiffany Murray on her pick of the rocks.read more...
Education, Education, Education (19/01/2010)
Sarah Waters and others on the teachers who inspired them in today's Guardian.read more...
T.S. Elliot Prize goes to Phillip Gross (19/01/2010)
The 2009 T. S. Eliot Prize has been won by Philip Gross.read more...
Synecdoche, Adamsdown (12/01/2010)
As everyone with a good dictionary knows, a 'synecdoche' is a literary term where the part stands for the whole and vice versa.read more...
Whose Voice is it Anyway? (10/12/2009)
Over the past few blogs, I've been thinking about the different elements I've had to consider as I write my biography of the woman who was briefly married to a 'Screen Giant of Electric Intensity'read more...
To Reveal or Not to Reveal? (07/12/2009)
These days it seems like any old celebrity can get a book deal to write their autobiography...read more...
What Lies Beneath (07/12/2009)
'Researching, like writing, is an individual, creative process.' So says Ann Hoffman, author of Research for Writers, one of the best books on the process.read more...
Cataloguing Lives (30/11/2009)
When you're famous and then you die, you could find yourself in the potentially awkward and deeply invasive position...read more...
Significant Others (30/11/2009)
There is a distinguished list of 'significant others' in cultural history...read more...
Borders on the Brink? (25/11/2009)
Borders facing possible administration, the Guardian reports.read more...
Danie Abse Wins 2009 Wilfred Owen Poetry Award (24/11/2009)
Dannie Abse has won the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award for a distinguished body of work which includes notable war poems.read more...
John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry 2009 (24/11/2009)
I was one of the judges for the 2009 John Tripp Award in Cardiff last week.read more...
Patrick Hannan, Broadcaster and Journalist, 1941-2009 (15/11/2009)
The great Welsh broadcaster and journalist Patrick Hannan sadly died on October 11th.read more...
Questions of Identity (13/11/2009)
I'm writing a biography of a woman routinely described as Welsh and sometimes, more specifically, Cardiff - as in 'Cardiff girl', 'Cardiff actress' etc.read more...
Questions of Identity (13/11/2009)
I'm writing a biography of a woman routinely described as Welsh and sometimes, more specifically, Cardiff - as in 'Cardiff girl', 'Cardiff actress' etc.read more...
Arthur Giardelli (12/11/2009)
Celebrated artist Arthur Giardelli has died at the age of 98. David Moore's obituary in the Guardian outlines his life and career here.read more...
Machen in the Guardian (30/10/2009)
A blog on Machen in yesterday's Guardian online by Damien G. Walter.read more...
Up Close and Personal (28/10/2009)
A couple of weeks ago I went to the launch of Blown, a new magazine for the culturally intelligent in the National Museum in Cardiff.read more...
Dic Jones 1934 - 2009 (04/10/2009)
A fine obituary of Welsh poet Dic Jones who recently died.read more...
Aeronwy Thomas-Ellis, Daughter of Dylan Thomas, Dies Aged 66 (29/07/2009)
Tributes paid following the sad news of the death of Aeronwy Thomas. Read the full story hereread more...
Forward Prize Nomination for Merion Jordan (23/07/2009)
Congratulations to Meirion Jordan, who has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Read the story here.read more...
TV Matters and Culture Coming Out of the Closet (30/06/2009)
A blog post over at The Kenyon Review on the power of television in bringing literature to the people, picking up on the sales hike for poets featured on the Beeb's recent poetry season.read more...
Wales Book of the Year: 2009 (17/06/2009)
Many congratulations to Deborah Kay Davies on winning the Wales Book of the Year 2009 for her debut collection of short stories...read more...
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