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For LGBTQ History Month, Parthian caught up with Julia Bell, whose superb, intriguing 'memoir in verse', Hymnal, will be published in April. A writer and academic, Julia is the author of four novels, the bestselling Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan) and the book-length essay Radical Attention (Peninsula Press). Her essays and short stories have been published nationally and internationally including in the TLS, the White Review and the Paris Review and broadcast on the BBC. Her poetry has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Prize. She is a Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London....

This Cyril James Morris published his debut book The Herring Man; a beautiful tale about dealing with grief and searching for hope. Learn more about The Herring Man. Step into Cyril's Writer's Corner to see what makes him tick!

The annual Rhys Davies Short Story Competition is now open for entries, until 16th March 2023. That gives you all just over 3 months to get your entries in, so start scribbling! The winner of the 2022 competition was Laura Morris, an English teacher from Caerphilly, for her story ‘Cree’. The anthology was launched this autumn in Swansea Waterstones and was a lovely celebration!   Find out all the info you'll need to enter the competition here.

On day 5 of our literary advent calendar, you can get stuck into the first 30 pages of The Incandescent Threads - named as one of the Sunday Times Best Historical Fiction Books of 2022! Read here! 

It is day 4 of the Christmas countdown and for all the short story lovers out there you can grab 25% off Cree: The Rhys Davies Short Story Award. Today only! Dip in and out of these stories celebrating the very best of contemporary Welsh writing in the short story form.