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Cheval 11 Launched at the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Awards!
Last night at the Dylan Thomas Centre, the late Neath poet Terry Hetherington was honoured once more. The evening featured readings from 25 young poets and writers, all of which are featured in Cheval 11. The ceremony marks the culmination of the £1000 prize which took submissions from all over the UK.
Thomas Tyrrell Reflects on Tŷ Newydd Writing Retreat
For the second year running I’d won second prize at the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award, open to all authors under 30 born, living or working in Wales. I thought by now I understood the way things would unfold. The competition anthology, Cheval 11, would be launched at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea. I’d do a reading, get a cheque, a bottle of wine and a grinning photo in the Western Mail. It was awesome last year, and I was looking forward to doing it again.
Parthian Remembers Candy Royalle
We're incredibly saddened to hear of the death of Candy Royalle, aged 37. The Lebanese-Palestinian Australian, an award-winning poet, storyteller, spoken word performer and activist, toured the UK in 2015 and delivered a blisteringly energised and powerful performance at The Cellar Bards in Cardigan, west Wales.
Rhian Elizabeth's Writing Residency in Tranås, Sweden
Since the summer of 2014, the year of Dylan Thomas’ centenary, the small, ordinary town of Tranås in Southern Sweden annually becomes a hub for the activity of language artists from all over the world. A small group of writers, poets and storytellers is selected to spend a month in each other’s company and create an international community that explores how practitioners from different cultures develop and deliver the spoken and written word within literary traditions.
New Play 'Old Soldier' Remembers Frank Richards
Frank Richards' title of his Library of Wales classic Old Soldiers Never Die has proven a prophetic one. On 30th June, his legacy endures with a new play inspired by his experiences, called 'Old Soldier' which has its world premiere at The Melville Centre in Abergavenny.
