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 …
Read more
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 …
Read more
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 …
Read more
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 …
Read more
Roman Wall Blues
In this edition, the past is glimpsed through secretions of silt and mud. In ancient times at Ephesus, silt buries the temple of Artemis; in 1922, a h …
Read more
Precision and Clarity
Last month at Hay, Cath Barton was awarded this year’s New Welsh Writing Awards Americymru Prize for the Novella with ‘The Plankton Collector’. In her …
Read more
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 …
Read more
SEARCH