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Prize Draw

Aberystwyth writers

Aberystwyth University is the oldest in Wales and has a deservedly high reputation for its teaching and for the quality of life the town offers.

Its thriving English Department hosts an impressive group of published and award-winning authors - novelists, poets, and life-writers - who benefit both from the sense of a shared literary community and from their inspiring surroundings.

Our summer prize draw features some of the finest recent work from these writers. New Welsh Review subscribers have the opportunity to win a set of seven books, both poetry and prose, as shown below. Simply email admin@newwelshreview.com before May 30th and we'll pick the winner at random. Good luck!

The books and authors:

Kink and Particle (Seren), Tiffany Akinson
Mandeville (Faber), Matthew Francis
A Lens in the Palm (Carcanet), Kelly Grovier
The Fossil Box (Cinnamon Press), Richard Marggraf Turley
Whiteout (Parthian), Richard Marggraf Turley and Damian Walford Davies
Rifling Paradise (Sceptre), Jem Poster
Megalith (Gomer), Edited by Damian Walford Davies

For more information on individual authors or Aberystwyth University follow the link below.

www.aber.ac.uk/english

Other Benefits

• 10% off tickets for Academi-run events
  Save money on events organised by Academi, the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors. Visit their website for details of events near you.
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• 10% off a subscription to Academi’s Welsh-language literary journal Taliesin
  Taliesin is Wales’s foremost Welsh language literary periodical, and is published three times a year by the Academi with the support of the Welsh Books Council. The editors are novelist and scriptwriter Manon Rhys and poet and academic Christine James. The first issue appeared in 1961 under the editorship of Gwenallt and since then, under the editorship of several other prominent names in the world of Welsh literature, Taliesin has gone from strength to strength. It publishes poems, articles, short stories, essays, reviews and translations into Welsh from other literatures. Nearly all the leading writers of the day feature among the contributors. As a platform for their work, Taliesin may be reckoned among the best literary periodicals ever published in Welsh.
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• Discounts on tickets for all Aberystwyth Arts Centre literary events
  If you live in the Aberystwyth area, or are visiting, look out for literary events at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. New Welsh Review subscribers can buy their tickets to all literary events at the concessionary rate. Events range from the small and intimate, through the Meetings With Writers series (organised in collaboration with the University of Wales, Aberystwyth English Department and the support of Academi), to larger audiences with the 'stars' such as Benjamin Zephaniah and Will Self. Visit the Aberystwyth Arts centre website to find out what's on or pick up their brochure.
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• Almanac
  Many of our readers will already know of Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays. Now published by Parthian, it has been renamed Almanac: Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English. Volume 12 will be out on March 28th and New Welsh Review subscribers can buy their copy for £12 (RRP £14.99). Contact Parthian on 01267 676633 to place an order, or look on their website for more details
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