Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English, edited by Katie Gramich, is a stimulating academic journal featuring new research by established and emerging critics in the field. Almanac aims to engage in a lively and informed way both with the Welsh literary past and with contemporary writing, looking towards the future and outwards towards the rest of the world.

Editions 12, 13 and 14 are published by Parthian.

Guidelines for Contributors

The almanac publishes essays on literary topics, not on purely Welsh historical matters. While its primary concern is the study of Welsh writing in English, papers on Welsh-language authors, written in English, will be considered; the Yearbook will also consider papers which relate the two literatures of Wales or discuss the literatures of Wales in international, comparative contexts.

Papers should not normally exceed 8,000 words in length. Manuscripts (two copies) should be typed on one side of the page, double spaced, and produced a$ccording to the current MHRA Style Guide.

Include a computer disk with the hard copies, and note the word-processing programme used. All contributions will be refereed. While a decision will be made as expeditiously as possible, allow three months for a decision.

Contributors of published papers receive two complimentary copies of the issue in which their paper appears.

Acknowledgements

Almanac is published with the financial support of the Welsh Books Council; the editor also gratefully acknowledges the support of the Association for Welsh Writing in English. We are as ever indebted to those scholars who have found time in busy schedules to act as readers of papers submitted for publication; their advice and guidance are indispensable.

The almanac web page, which includes information on past issues, is at:

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/journals/periodic/welshwrit.html

Correspondence and contributions for publication should be addressed to the editor:

Dr Katie Gramich,

School of English, Communication and Philosophy,

Cardiff University,

Humanities Building,

Colum Drive,

Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Email: GramichK@cf.ac.uk

Contents for Almanac 14 vol 14 | 2009–10

Editor: Dr Katie Gramich, Cardiff University

Associate Editors:

Professor Jane Aaron, University of Glamorgan

Professor M. Wynn Thomas, Swansea University

Professor Tony Brown, University of Wales, Bangor

Contents:

1. ‘Civilizing the Natives: Henry M. Stanley’s and Joseph Conrad’s Narratives of Identity’ | Steve Hendon

2. ‘Winding silkworms' cocoons without a reel: Betsy Cadwaladyr, Jane Williams (Ysgafell) and the Writing of The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis’ | Gwyneth Tyson Roberts

3. Original Preface to The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis | Jane Williams (Ysgafell)

4. ‘Visions of Wales: The Welsh Outlook, 1914–1933’ | Alyce von Rothkirch

5. ‘Spaces of International Comparison in Welsh Periodicals in English: 1882–2008’ | Malcolm Ballin

6. ‘Exact Mystery: Some Aspects of Vernon Watkins’s Poetics’ | John Powell Ward

7. ‘Vernon Watkins, Dylan Thomas and the Poetry of Lorca’ | Gwynne Edwards

8. ‘Defamiliarising Idris Davies: A Reassessment of Gwalia Deserta and “Gwalia My Song”’ | Alan Vaughan Jones CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE ESSAY £4.99

9. ‘Hugh MacDiarmid and Keidrych Rhys: The Arrow from Wales’ | Hugh Manson

10. ‘The Burial of T. J. Llewelyn Prichard: An Addendum to a Note Concerning the Finding of a Prichard Manuscript’ | Sam Adams

11. Bibliography of Criticism 2008 | Catherine Phelps