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It's the online celebration of the Rhys Davies Short Story Award this evening, so book your tickets here and tune in at 7pm!     To whet your appetite Naomi Paulus, Swansea-born author of the winning story 'Take a Bite', has kindly let us publish it here. This wonderfully evocative story was described by judge Julia Bell as a "delightful, wistful, satisfying piece which echoes some of the best of Rhys Davies, for a few pages giving us a window into a world which is both tender and profound", and "a winner from the moment I read it."    ...

Parthian is pleased to announce a fascinating anthology – Seventy Years of Struggle and Achievement: Life Stories of Ethnic Minority Women Living in Wales – due to be released in October. The book is a collection of inspirational and remarkable life narratives of forty ethnic minority women living in Wales. Selected and edited by Meena Upadhyaya, Kirsten Lavine and Chris Weedon, these stories contribute to the ongoing dialogue on inclusivity and diversity in contemporary society. The readers go on a journey across continents, getting an insight into different cultures and a glimpse of the tenacity and perseverance of diverse women...

Naomi Paulus has won the 2021 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition for her story Take a Bite, a “delightful, wistful, satisfying piece” in which a young woman, Rhian, returns home to the voices and rituals of her mother and aunts for an important family event. The competition recognises the very best unpublished short stories in English in any style and on any subject up to a maximum of 5,000 words by writers aged 18 or over who were born in Wales, have lived in Wales for two years or more, or are currently living in Wales. Originally established in 1991,...

Parthian is thrilled to announce the release of our first independent audiobooks.  We've been busy in 2021 collaborating with Cast Iron Productions to create our very first Parthian-produced audiobooks.  Our initial titles include memoir, translations and classic Welsh fiction: The Journey is Home: Notes from a Life on the Edge, written and narrated by John Sam Jones Buy Now   Death Drives an Audi by Kristian Bang Foss, narrated by Danish actor Lars Kudsen  Buy Now   The Book of Katerina by Auguste Corteau, narrated by The Durrells actress Anna Savva Buy Now   Keep your ears peeled folks - there's even...

From Monday September 6th 2021 until Sunday September 19th, Team Parthian will be opening a submissions window! Please note that we are ONLY looking for novels and creative non-fiction (memoirs, biography, critical essays). I’m afraid we are NOT looking for short story collections or poetry at this time. If you send your poetry or short fiction, it will not be read. And we've gone digital! So it's email submissions only please, to Team Parthian: parthiansubmissions@gmail.com Read the info below and then send us your best work! We anticipate a high volume of submissions and we'll start reading them from Monday...