Female-led European literature with a focus on place in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction and diversity in poetry. Plus illustrations by Katherine Cleaver. This edition presents the winner of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting: ‘Invisibility’ by Mark Blayney, a fictionalised biography of Thomas Picton, Tyrant of Trinidad. Plus poems by Graham Mort and Carson Wolfe.
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NONFICTION
In My Father’s House — Memoir by Elizabeth Griffiths
The King of Swansea — Nonfiction and illustrations by Katherine Cleaver
FICTION
Invisibility — Novella preview by Mark Blayney
The Signature of Gates — Novella extract by Sam Lewis
The Visitor Centre — Novella extract by Pete Barker
The Last Day by Owain Owain — Translation preview from Y Dydd Olaf by Emyr Wallace Humphreys
POETRY
Love Poem: Rain — Jayant Kashyap
Naming Her Hungers — Rachael Davey
Littoral — Rachael Davey
It’s Hard to Hear — Carson Wolfe
Only Accessible by Water — Carson Wolfe
Unseasonal — Graham Mort
Moles — Graham Mort
Sister Dora Arrives in Walsall — Laura Stanley
The Legend of Sister’s Arm — Laura Stanley
The Riverfly Census — Jackie Wills
Under the Hut — Jackie Wills
Об авторе
Mark Blayney won the Somerset Maugham Award for his story books, Two Kinds of Silence, and is currently a Royal Literary Fellow based at Cardiff University. His entry ‘Invisibility’, a fictionalised account of the life of Thomas Picton, won the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh theme or setting, which was presented at Hay Festival in summer 2023. The entry will be developed, with judge and editor Gwen Davies, into a book for publication on the magazine’s New Welsh Rarebyte imprint