Category: Editorial
Editorial for Issue 121
This autumn 2019 issue, New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 winner Peter Goulding writes, with humour and warmth, in his essay ‘On Slate’, about a group of …
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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 su …
Read moreThe Hardest Button to Button
The room is way up high. So far that the first time I went, I could send what I saw into nothing, just with the press of lashes to the wrong end of my …
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Citizen Thinker Ed
The New Welsh Writing Awards, established by ourselves to promote long-form creative prose forms in a programme of rotating categories, completed its …
Read moreLetter to Mr Powell
Dear Mr RS Powell Thanks for your letter recalling my cri de coeur (editorial, NWR 112, autumn 2016), in the wake of the EU referendum. You rightly me …
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The Long & Short of It
The novella is an inbetween form: shorter than a typical novel but longer than a typical short story – though there are no precise strictures on lengt …
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What’s the Time, Mr Wolf?
Wales’ enduring flair for the short story is gradually being recognized on an international stage, with our best writers in the form, including Cynan …
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Spuds and Lobster
To have power is to be sufficiently motivated and assertive to execute our desire, with or without the cooperation of others. Children often lack it, …
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Punks and Safety Pins
Even as we are all still in shock following the folly of the EU referendum, now is the time to try and counteract the potentially evil influence of a …
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