New Welsh Review

Award-winning author, Peter Goulding writes, with humor and warmth, in his essay 'On Slate', about a group of north-western English punks, who escaped the 80s recession to claim dole in Llanberis and climb the rock faces of former slate quarries.

Utopias and dystopias predominate in this selection of novella extracts from Wales. Includes the winners and nominations in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 Aberystwyth University Prize for a Dystopian Novella, plus a photo essay by Tim Cooke and Ben Absalom on the Bridgend estate, Wildmill, and a column by editor and translator Gwen Davies on her adaptation of Caryl Lewis' gothic, evocative novel of possession and surrogacy, The Jeweller. With fourteen photographs.

Anthology of creative work from Wales and beyond, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, photography and artwork. This edition's theme is 'contrary', and features the poetry of the prizewinning Robert Minhinnick and a linocut by the renowned artist Dan Llywelyn Hall, as well as, a feature on dentistry and concepts of 'welfare' through history; a philosophical spotlight by musician Jeb Loy Nichols on a 'contrary' project of passion, Westwood recordings Country and Western label of 70s and 80s mid Wales; an essay on the concept of radio community portraiture in relation to Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, in addition to stories of environmental revenge by Jem Poster, of middle-aged Spanish dropouts by Dan Anthony, and of successful conception, with the aid of witchcraft, by Wales Book of the Year nominee Mari Ellis Dunning.

Anthology/journal of creative writing from Wales and beyond on the theme of sea change, including essays, biography, memoir, literary essays, history, natural history, book extracts, fiction, writing of place, nature and poetry, plus original artwork, illustration and photography. * Excerpts from the three winning and three highly commended entries from the 2020 New Welsh Writing Awards. Comprises the winner, UEA graduate Susan Karen Burton from Norfolk, second place writer, Cardiff-based Ruby D Jones and the COSTA award-winning runner up from Newport, Gwent, Jonathan Edwards as well as highly commended authors Angela Evans, Mark Blayney and Janice Jones who reside, respectively, in Burry Port, Penarth and Bangor * Poetry and artwork from Robert Minhinnick & Dan Llywelyn Hall * Exclusive preview of Skomer Island by Mike Alexander Showcase of the entries from the 2020 New Welsh Writing Awards Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting which was judged by Gwen Davies and awarded to the top three winning writers. 'The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima' by Susan Karen Burton, an essay about a Welsh migrant experience in Japan and Catharine's embodiment of hybrid identity, was praised by Gwen Davies as being 'so superb [in its] visualisation of physical space and loving detail lavished on objects and the places we call home that I assumed the author must be a professional writer on architecture'. Ruby D. Jones' 'An Anatomy of Shame' explores both the difficulty and the power of self-acceptance and Jonathan Edwards' 'The Substitute' is a first foray into short fiction for the COSTA Award-winning poet. Among the highly commended entries is 'Tidelands' by Angela Evans, a reflective piece about an unsung industrial coastline, from Burry Port to Cefn Sidan, and two novellas - 'The Confidence of Water', a novella extract of a young middle-class couple attempting to adapt to sudden, catastrophic change, by Mark Blayney and 'Scenes from a Life', a humorous LGBTQ story of love and vaudeville by Janice Jones. 'The Extinction Circus' by poet and climate change campaigner Robert Minhinnick is accompanied by a stunning interpretation of the poem by the esteemed Welsh artist Dan Llywelyn Hall. Mike Alexander's forthcoming book on the history and natural history of an island National Nature Reserve is previewed in 'Skomer Island', ahead of publication in November 2020 of Skomer Island: The History and Natural History of an Island National Nature Reserve, by Y Lolfa. And the meditative piece, 'Hare', by Aberystwyth writer Suzy Ceulan Hughes talks about those times when nature makes our space its own.

An anthology of high quality prose and poetry by prizewinning authors from Wales and beyond, on the theme of Wild Unassuming Spaces. Philip Gross contributes two preview poems from his forthcoming collection for Seren, Troeon/Turnings. Thrice Wales Book of the Year winner Robert Minhinnick offers 'Ffynnon Wen', part of a project called Our Square Mile / Ein Milltir Sgwar, curated by Sustainable Wales, from which selection we also publish Laura Wainwright's superb essay 'Bird-singing Land', which melds the poetry of Supertramp WH Davies with her experience with her children of nature in east Newport during the spring lockdown. Third in this project on wild places is Peter Finch's psychogeographic essay on rediscovering his roots during lockdown in east Cardiff (Roath and Penylan). JL George offers a supernatural urban story, while Morgan Davies' forthcoming novel for Victorina Press, The Burning Bracken, is previewed. And Tim Cooke's feature-length essay explores a traumatic personal schoolboy memory, sparked off by a true crime, that finds its echoes in the media, photography, time and space.

This edition/anthology focuses on photography, commemoration and reinvention, with particular attention paid to the memories that pass from father to daughter. Photographer MR. Thomas writes about the October 1999 day that he shot the iconic group portrait of cultural legends RS Thomas, Kyffin Williams and Emyr Humphreys, at RS Thomas' home in Pentrefelin, in Gwynedd. MR. Thomas recreated the pose and attitude of an historical and historic photograph in the public domain that has come to be known as The Penyberth Three (of Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis and DJ Williams, the founders of the Welsh nationalist movement), transforming it into a new artefact, The Pentrefelin Three, which is published for the first time in these pages. Yvonne Reddick drew on memories of the loss of her father in the mountains, in her debut poetry pamphlet, Translating Mountains. In her memoir published here, illustrated by her partner Jonny Kinnear's atmospheric black and white photographs, she further probes that loss. More than that, she pitches it into the public global arena by setting her true story on the Instagram mecca of the crash site of the Bleaklow Bomber in the Peak District, where the US reconnaissance plane 'Over Exposed' crashed in 1948, having previously photographed images of the nuclear blasts on Bikini Atoll. Meanwhile, exploring the father-daughter legacy in relation to the growth of rural rave culture in 1990s mid Wales, 'Bass in the Blood' by Jodie Bond recounts how she and her brother weathered parties marked by drugs, music, natural beauty and benign neglect, leaving her with magical and yet conflicted memories of her father's rediscovery of himself, post-divorce.

European female-led literature with an emphasis on place in prose, the narrative voice in fiction, diversity in poetry and beauty and imagination in photography. This anthology takes the theme of metamorphosis, and presents a feature-length profile of trans pioneer and travel author Jan Morris; the stunning photographs, by the multiple international prizewinning Vanessa Winship, of rural Ohio and the Amish community; a literary essay on female nature essayists, plus poems by the Costa Awardwinning Jonathan Edwards.

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.

Edited by Gwen Davies Featuring Phước Tiến, Susan Karen Burton, Jayne Joso and Deidre Brennan Female-led literature with an emphasis on place, nature and authenticity in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, ideas for our times in the literary essay, and illustrative panache overall. Originating in Wales and with international ambition. Here we bring together the best of NWR's online essays and review-essays within a showcase of new work previewing forthcoming titles from some of this country's key English-language publishers. Plus, there's new work from Phước Tiến, Susan Karen Burton, Jayne Joso and Deidre Brennan, and 'Hi Mawari', the lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo).

Bringing together the best of Wales' review-essays, including a comparison of new editions of nature classics, 'Back to the Land' by Pippa Marland. The books under review, Thomas Firbank's 'I Bought a Mountain' and Margiad Evans' 'Autobiography' take contrasting blustering and humble approaches to stepping over the sub/urban doorstep into nature. A showcase of new nonfiction, previewing forthcoming titles from some of Wales' key English-language publishers, exploring books on anti-Welsh media vitriol covering the early Manic Street Preachers, and historical flooding and the riches of an Eton-owned Benedictine fishery on the Gwent Levels. In original fiction: a wonderful story about a teenage boy on the cusp of bodily and emotional change, 'Trout', by Satterday Shaw, and a second, finely crafted story about the effect of geographical dislocation on teenage identity emergence, 'Another Place' by Philippa Holloway, set on Crosby beach. Plus Editorial by Gwen Davies and a new opinion feature, Last Page, by Richard Lewis Davies, in which the writers note that magazines in Wales are undergoing a transition, during which readers and subscribers will need to step up to the plate if a commitment to expressing - without interference - our particular place and time, is to be maintained.