Editorials

The Long & Short of It

David Lloyd and Gwen Davies introduce the new issue of New Welsh Reader, which focuses on the novella and includes entries from this year's New Welsh Writing Awards.

The Ultimate Existential Form

Chris Moss introduces this special issue of New Welsh Reader, which focuses on Memoir and the entries to the this year's New Welsh Writing Awards.

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KATHERINE STANSFIELD

The Magpie Tree

An exclusive extract from The Magpie Tree by Katherine Stansfield, published by Allison and Busby on 22 March

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Longlist of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2018 Announced

Longlist of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2018 Announced
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A first-person dark European fairytale about abuse, cross-dressing and Claudette’s desperate attempts to escape a cruel, dead father’s shadow and a living brother’s evil intent. The unusual, unsettling language here is compelling, as is our heroine’s immediate voice. This novella is enriched with references to modern Paris, as well as writers such as Baudelaire and Sartre. Third Prize in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2017: AmeriCymru Prize for the Novella

09/05/2018

Civilisations and Civilisation: 2018 versus 1969 (Part 1)

Adam Somerset compares this spring’s TV cultural series Civilisations with Kenneth Clark’s 1969 counterpart, and finds the former lacking

24/04/2018

Nofio/Swimming Multimedia Exhibition at Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Reginald Francis seeks the emotional side of wild swimming but finds mainly the seizure of control in depicting the female human form, as well as powerful nudity

18/04/2018

Three Tales by Cynan Jones: Book Launch and Review

Eleanor Howe writes that these tales for children, a first for the author, do not lack his trademark sucker punch

New Spring Multimedia

Suzannah V Evans on an otherworldly collection bound by place, as political as it is lyrical more...