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S BERYL JONES

The Woman at the Well

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...


NEWS

Attention All Authors! New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 Now Live!

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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ESSAY HANNAH ENGELKAMP

Swimming Women

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?


BLOG

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

13/02/2019

Love Welsh Poetry, A Journey Like No Other

Kaja Brown commends an innovative trail of love poems to celebrate the Welsh Valentines season at Ceredigion Museum in Aberystwyth

09/01/2019

Christmas Days and Winterson at Hay Festival Winter Weekend


Kaja Brown found the perfect Queer winter author at Hay Festival Winter Weekend

New Multimedia

This spring 2019 season, we present George Carr chairing our Bookclub Podcast discussing Jane Aaron's collection as editor of historical short stories from Wales, A View Across the Valley, Eluned Gramich who reviews the novel Dignity by Alys Conran (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Mabli Roberts (Paula Brackston) who talks about her latest novel God's Children with George Carr. A Poetry Showcase: four poems connected by the theme of memory, and finally a review by George Carr of the novel Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi (Bloomsbury).

OPINION HANNAH AUSTIN

Exquisitely Rough: Outsiders, Social Class, and the Iceberg of London Publishing

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...

VINTAGE GEMS

CRYSTAL JEANS

My Bukowski

There’s this guy. He must be around fifty, maybe fifty-five. I don’t know if he’s homeless or what. He hangs out in the lanes behind Whitchurch Road, by the allotments. He’s always wearing a pair of jeans and a leather jacket. He has light red hair, turning grey; a beard. Old scars and pits on his face. Skin rough and red from sun exposure. Dirty more...





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