Dylan’s Great Poem and Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award Need More Welsh Entries

Doing poetry as a job means you meet many similar sorts along the way. Not other poets, exactly, but rather those people who actively promote and propagate the artform which we love, whether through journalism, organising events, marketing and promotion, teaching, or whatever else. They might be poets as well, of course, but also they……

How to Exit a Burning Building Launch (Part II) – Photos!

On Friday, March 4th, young writers gathered with their friends and family to celebrate the secondary launch of How to Exit a Burning Building. This anthology showcases the winning and commended work from the Robin Reeves Prize for Young Writers 2015. In December, they met for the first time at Chapter to hear the winners, Natalie Ann Holborow, Eve Elizabeth……

How to Exit a Burning Building Launch – Part II

Join us for our second How to Exit a Burning Building Launch Party! We’ll be gathering on Friday, March 4th from 7-9pm at the Little Man Coffee Co. in Cardiff. This anthology, published by Parthian, showcases the winning and commended work from the Robin Reeves Prize for Young Writers 2015, an award established by the……

Natalie Ann Holborow wins the Robin Reeves Prize for Young Writers 2015

A Swansea writer has become the second person to be awarded the Robin Reeves Prize for Young Writers by the Welsh Writers’ Trust 24-year-old Natalie Ann Holborow will be presented with her £500 prize on Sunday 13 December 2015 at an awards ceremony at Chapter, Cardiff’s iconic arts centre. Runners-up Eve Elizabeth Moriarty and Mari……

Writer Feature: Mab Jones

Welsh Writers Trust sat down with Mab Jones, writer and performer, and chatted to her about the residency she is doing at the Dylan Thomas Boathouse in Laugharne. You are doing a residency at the Dylan Thomas Boathouse, what does this residency entail? They have a few resident writers over the course of a year……

Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan

Cardiff Metropolitan is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. In 2014, it recorded it’s highest ever level of overall student satisfaction and remains the highest ranked ‘new’ (post 1992) university in Wales. It is also one of the few universities that offers a joint honours English and Creative Writing BA (Hons) in Wales. The creative……

Writing at Bangor University

Situated in the dramatic landscape of North Wales, Bangor University provides inspiring views on its doorstep. From the Snowdonia Mountain range to the serene British coast, the location is definitely one of the reasons students choose to take a course in Bangor. It was rated amongst the top 10 universities in the UK for student……

Tŷ Newydd

Tŷ Newydd is a house in Abercain which runs writing courses for people of all capabilities. It was opened in 1990 to the public as a writing centre by the writers Gillian Clarke and Robert Minhinnick. Clarke said it was her dream to open a house of words, “somewhere which belonged to all writers”. Prime……

Places to Inspire Writing in Cardiff

All writers have experienced that dearth of inspiration; the time when we scrabble through articles in newspapers, sift through old diaries and scour every object that surrounds us to find something, anything, that might spark some much craved creativity. In those trying times when nothing seems to mean anything and you are left staring at……

Welsh Writer’s Trust Poem of the Month

Peace 75 Peace is found in the corners; the fall of light on glass. The rattle of sea on a stone. With a corner we can think. Lean by a wall, feel the sun on our faces, enjoy the pregnant nowness of it all. Peace doesn’t arrive with a fanfare, or from beneath a magician’s……