HIGHLY COMMENDED WRITERS IN THE NEW WELSH WRITING AWARDS 2022 RHEIDOL PRIZE FOR PROSE WITH A WELSH THEME OR SETTING

‘A Killing Frost’ Novella extract by Jo Mazelis

‘When the Library Closes’ Novella extract by Giancarlo Gemin

‘Blinks and Shards’ Novella extract by Beck Collett

FURTHER FICTION

‘The Silence Project’ Exclusive novel preview by Carole Hailey

‘Hearth’ Story by Jem Poster

‘Day 1: The Boneyard’ Novel extract from The Sandstone City by Elaine Canning

NONFICTION

‘Tidelands: Pembroke Dock and the ‘Blessed Haven” Angela Evans (in the third of a series celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Wales Coast Path) reports on master shipbuilders, Nelson and the Amazonian oyster women of Llangwm (photographs © David Street)

‘Still Life’ Angharad Penrhyn Jones on what nature can teach us about slowing down and staying still

POETRY

‘Heard at the Hay Farm’ Christina Thatcher

‘No poem, not even this one, can capture her’ Christina Thatcher

‘She never steeples her hands’ Christina Thatcher

Jem Poster, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, is the author of two novels, Courting Shadows (Sceptre, 2002) and Rifling Paradise (Sceptre, 2006), as well as a collection of poetry, Brought to Light (Bloodaxe, 2001). He is editor of volume III in the six-volume Edward Thomas: Prose Writings (Oxford University Press, 2018) and co-author, with Sarah Burton, of a handbook for fiction writers, The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write (Cambridge University Press, 2022).