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Curated by Richard Gwyn, Fiction Fiesta is an intimate but international festival, specialising in fiction and poetry in translation. The plan is to team novelists and poets from Latin America with talent from Wales and the rest of Britain. Join us on 22 November for this year's instalment.

Jodie Bond has collected yet another glowing review of her debut fantasy fiction novel, The Vagabond King!

Congratulations to all the overall winners and shortlisted writers of the PENfro Festival Writing Awards. They will all be published in the inaugural Penfro Festival anthology Heartland, which will be launched on Saturday 12 October at PENfro Festival at lunchtime, with judges Rhiannon Hooson and Niall Griffiths present. We really hope to see you there! The overall winner of the Short Story Prize, Richard Owain Roberts, will be releasing his debut novel Hello Friend We Missed You through us in May 2020 and his debut short story collection All The Places We Lived is available from our online store. Richard won for his story...

Glen James Brown's bestselling debut Ironopolis has officially been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. 

Glen James Brown’s debut novel Ironopolis – ‘a tapestry of working-class life in all its glory and pain.’ (Anthony Cartwright) – has stormed the shelves since its release last year. With reams of gleaming reviews and a recent longlisting for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, we are now thrilled to announce plans to release an audiobook edition of the novel with Audible. The editor of the project, Victoria Haslam, said this about the book: “I absolutely fell in love with Ironopolis by Glen James Brown. The writing is beautiful, and I love how the stories are woven together. And...