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Editorial by Gwen Davies for the December 2018 Edition of New Welsh Reader.
Editorial of the 1 September 2018 issue of the New Welsh Reader.
When I got out at the station I found the only way of getting to the house was on foot. Jameson, a little man with a thin moustache and turn-down collar, took me first of all a three-mile climb on a rough road; then we crossed a colliery tramway...
The New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 is now open for entries across two categories: Aberystwyth University Prize for a Dystopian Novella and the Rheidol Prize for Writing with a Welsh Theme or Setting
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Wild swimming is the most free I can imagine being right now, for a brief time between chores, my phone left on the shore, my toddler in someone else’s care. A recent swimming multimedia exhibition, Swimming, at Aberystwyth Arts Centre called to me like a siren’s song. The artists were all women, and their artwork invited me to submerge my mind with them, in wild, cold Welsh water. They are not alone in feeling the joy; wild swimming is hot right now. What can we take from their work? Is it significant that they are all women?
Kaja Brown commends an innovative trail of love poems to celebrate the Welsh Valentines season at Ceredigion Museum in Aberystwyth
Kaja Brown found the perfect Queer winter author at Hay Festival Winter Weekend
Eleanor Howe admires these humorous, engaging poems about being ill, being in love and abusive relationships, in which the reader is made privy to some of life’s startlingly intimate happenings
‘Skin alight’, having joined the swimming revolution, the author, in this homage to Roger Deakin, fails to cure his own anxiety, writes Jane MacNamee, but all the same makes a heartfelt account to resist the pale shadow of virtual reality more...
Richard Gwyn was invited to Buenos Aires in the summer of 2005 to represent Parthian Books at a conference held by the Foundation for Theory and Practice in the Arts to promote contemporary Argentine fiction. An unexpected act of violence on the first evening of his stay irrevocably changed his perception of the city... more...