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"Initially I was interested in quite abstract questions about what comprised a river. I was approaching ‘my obsession’ (for this is what it quickly became) from the philosopher’s perspective. Before long a shift occurred: the question of semantically defining a river became less important; after all, there was no denying the Teifi’s existence, as it rolled seamlessly seaward, in front of me. This freed me from focusing solely on the ‘flowing water of the Teifi’, and from this point on the project broadened its scope. I began to write about the lives of the river: its banks, its secret places...

This Sunday, 16th August, Jack Smylie Wild will be on Roy Noble's radio show talking all things Riverwise! Tune in from 4pm. Riverwise is released on September 1st, and we can't wait. You can preorder your copy here.

'I learned what it was to love and leave a place after reading Raymond Williams.'

Originally published in 1960, Raymond Williams's novel about rural working-class life resonates with readers as much today as it did sixty years ago. For the author Lynsey Hanley, it exerts the same power whenever she re-reads it.

As part of Wales Literature Exchange's open call to participate in the 2020 Ulysses' Shelter residency programme, candidates from Wales were chosen to participate in the residency programme during 2020. The candidates have been selected by a jury consisting of Sally Baker, ex-director of Tŷ Newydd, the National Writing Centre of Wales and of Wales PEN Cymru, Alexandra Büchler, director of Literature Across Frontiers, and Sioned Puw Rowlands, editor of the Welsh-language cultural magazine O’r Pedwar Gwynt. Lloyd Markham (1988) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and spent his childhood in Zimbabwe,  moving to and settling in Bridgend, South Wales, where...

We at Team Parthian are thrilled to announce that we've been selected as a Rhys Davies Trust Client Partner. This exciting initiative will allow us, over the next three years, to produce two titles annually as part of our Modern Wales series, focussing on interpretations of the Welsh condition, people, place and history.   The publications will include, among other studies, new biographies of Minnie Pallister and Gwyn Thomas, and we'll also publish Winter Sparrows,  a brand new selection of the work of Rhys Davies, Wales’s pre-eminent short story writer of the twentieth century. In an interesting new venture we'll...