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Get a preview of our showcase authors each season by browsing our exclusive on-line interviewsMary-Ann Constantine (Issue: 99)
I dislike it when writers explain too much, but I’m aware I probably err on the mean side when it comes to context, to back-stories, and the like. I know what’s going on, and expect readers to work it out (which isn’t quite the same as letting them make it up, is it?). Beginnings and ends tend to look after themselves, I find.read more...
Tristan Hughes (Issue: 99)
There’s something genuinely unnerving about Richard Hughes’s portrayal of how children’s minds work. The children in A High Wind in Jamaica inhabit a mental world in which the perceptual and moral settings of adulthood are oddly skewed or superficial or absent. They see things differently – not just as miniature adults. I guess I was interested in writing a story in which what seems to be the most important event actually isn’t – not for Cory anyway. I liked the idea of trying to play with this disjuncture. What Cory actually sees in what he sees isn’t quite what you’d expect.read more...
John Harrison (Issue: 99)
Some travel books are Grail narratives, they have a particular goal, at least nominally, to see a snow leopard, a Sumatran rhino, the perfect wave, find the palace of Xanadu or whatever it is. You run the risk that you don’t see one or find the place, and you need to fill that gap, usually with some philosophy. At the end of the day any narrative is a fabrication, and a travel writer needs to be mindful that suspension, hooks, and all the tricks of a fiction writer are available for use. I think it was when I realised this that travel writing clicked with me.read more...
Tom Anderson (Issue: 98)
Tom Anderson is from Porthcawl, south Wales, and has written three travelogues based on his all-consuming passion, surfing.read more...
Mark Tredinnick (Issue: 97)
Feature-length interview with Mark Tredinnick, winner of the Cardiff International Poetry Competion 2012read more...
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch (Issue: 96)
NWR Talks to Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch about her new poetry collection Banjoread more...
Horatio Clare (Issue: 96)
Ellie Rees refs a ‘return match’, her first since her pupil was sixteenread more...
Gee Williams (Issue: 96)
NWR Talks to Gee Williams about her third short fiction collection, A Girl’s Armread more...
Chris Meredith (Issue: 95)
Christopher Meredith’s superb, fourth new novel,The Book of Idiots, will be published by Seren on 3 April and is previewed in the spring issue of New Welsh Reviewread more...
Jane Yeh (Issue: 95)
Jane Yeh talks to New Welsh Review’s Sophie Long about her debut poetry collection, Marabouread more...
Robert Minhinnick (Issue: 95)
NWR Talks to Robert Minhinnick about his debut short fiction collection, The Keys of Babylonread more...
Tessa Hadley (Issue: 94)
This interview with Tessa Hadley is based on one conducted by Gwen Davies at the Dylan Thomas Centre as part of their festival, November 2011.read more...
Deborah Kay Davies (Issue: 94)
This interview was conducted via email by Gwen Davies for a Dylan Thomas Centre festival 2011 event focusing on Deborah Kay Davies and Tessa Hadley.read more...
Jim Perrin (Issue: 94)
Jim Perrin's latest book, West, A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss, was out in paperback from Atlantic this spring.read more...
Roshi Fernando (Issue: 92)
NWR interviews Roshi Fernando, author of Homesick and 2011 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and Edge Hill Prize nominee.read more...
Plus Gainsbourg Que Gainsbourg (Issue: 92)
Based on a conversation between the authors and NWR editor Gwen Davies at Hay Festival, 30 May, 2011read more...
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