Editorials

Jumping Frogs

I write this twenty-eight weeks into pregnancy. I write while sitting in my living room, surrounded by the detritus of baby preparations and poetry submissions...

The Hardest Button to Button

Editorial by Gwen Davies for the December 2018 Edition of New Welsh Reader.

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GAVIN GOODWIN

The Fox and The Foil Mill

New short story by Aberystwyth-based author and academic Gavin Goodwin

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JL George and Peter Goulding Named Winners of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2019

Pontypool's JL George ambitious novella with big themes and a teenage male friendship at its heart takes top prize alongside Peter Goulding's nonfiction account of the 80s Snowdonia oddball slate clim
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Last year, a message on our answerphone for our twelve-year-old son took us all by surprise. It was from the Poetry Society and told Morgan that his poem ‘Sker Beach’ had been chosen as one of the commended entries in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. He was unfazed until we were in the Southbank Centre for the ceremony, with no real concept beforehand of what it meant – but I knew. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for weeks: my boy, my clever boy...

26/06/2019

Calling a Manual Earth-lifting Device a Spade

Nigel Jarrett on how writers should be able to speak

01/05/2019

Anna Falcini, In Between the Folds are Particles, at Oriel Davies, Newtown

Ellen Bell is bowled over by this homage to Gwen John which plays masterfully with micro and macro

26/02/2019

Reclaiming Gay Rural Wales

Kaja Brown enjoys a performance about the Ladies of Llangollen and anticipates the publication of Mike Parker’s memoir about the gay couple he inherited his house from, an event in LGBT+ History Month at Ceredigion Museum

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Back in Bridgend, Hannah Austin was so posh she went horseriding, but, on a writing course in England’s capital, she discovers her background is an exotic object of pity more...