New Welsh Writing Awards

About the New Welsh Writing Awards

The 2023 New Welsh Writing Awards: Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting is now closed for entries.

To read judge Gwen Davies’ call for entries, click here, but entries are now closed. Terms and conditions can be found here.

Since 2015, the New Welsh Writing Awards have sought the best writing in short form (5,000 – 30,000 words) over a variety of categories. Previous winners include:

Tim Cooke for River, 2022
Jasmine Donahaye for Reading the Signs, 2021
Susan Karen Burton for The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima, 2020
Peter Goulding for Slatehead:The Ascent of Britain’s Slate-climbing scene, 2019
JL George for The Word, 2019
Ed Garland for Earwitness: A Search for Sonic Understanding in Stories, 2018
Catherine Haines for My Oxford, 2017
Cath Barton for The Plankton Collector, 2017
Mandy Sutter for Bush Meat, 2016
Eluned Gramich for Woman Who Brings the Rain, 2015

The winners have received £1,000 cash as an advance against e-publication, a critique by leading literary agent Cathryn Summerhayes and a year-long subscription to New Welsh Review.

We have worked with a variety of sponsors over the years, but since 2015, we have always partnered with Gladstone’s Library, Tŷ Newydd Writers’ Centre, Literature Wales and Cathryn Summerhayes at the literary agency Curtis Brown. The New Welsh Writing Awards 2022: Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting is sponsored by the philanthropist RS Powell.

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