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As 2021 draws to a close, Team Parthian thought it would be nice to hold an actual in-person event. Please see the schedule below for NUTS II, and keep the date free!     Saturday 11th December at the Media Point Room, Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1QE 11am: Publishing Wales/Cyhoeddi Cymru reception for the new organisation representing publishers in Wales (Tickets £1, available here.) 1pm: Just So You Know. A reception with editor Durre Shahwar and guests to mark the publication of this engaging anthology of essays, one year on. (Tickets £1, available here.) 2.15pm: 'Fact or Fiction'...

To celebrate the lead up to Christmas, we at Parthian thought we’d publish a series of author interviews with the writers who were shortlisted for The 2021 Rhys Davies Short Story Award, continuing from where we left off with Naomi Paulus. Today we are kicking this series off with Elizabeth Pratt, who shared her experience writing the short story, ‘James, In During’. Elizabeth Pratt, who also writes under Elizabeth Ardith Aylward, is an enthusiastic short story and flash fiction author. Having previously won the HE Bates Short Story Competition in 2018, the Frome Festival Short Story Competition in 2020, and...

We realise that we hadn’t released a review round-up for a while, so we thought we'd do a quick overview of the last couple of months! As it gets a bit colder and the darkness settles in, we find ourselves wrapping up in our thermals, scarves, and our favourite bobble hats, book in hand and nestled in our favourite chairs, hopefully near a window with a view...   Poetry Mab Jones’ offers her thoughts on a plethora of poetry: https://www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-polly-atkin-patrick-jones-topher-mills-october-feature/   Sex on Toast by Topher Mills  "Evocative, engaging, and entertaining, this is a true gem of a book."     Fuse/Fracture...

Holly Porter reviews one of the latest events to come from Swansea University’s Cultural Institute’s Literary Salon Series, ‘Voice and Form in Contemporary Fiction: Women Authors from Wales and Europe in conversation’ and explores where these critically-acclaimed female authors fit within the literature of today.