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  26th November Carmarthen Waterstones  3pm 26th November Rhoysgilwen Arts Centre Cardigan 7pm Swansea Waterstones Friday 3rd December 2pm Storyville Pontypridd  Saturday 4th of December 10 am Griffin Books Penarth Saturday 4th of December 1 pm Bookish Crickhowell  Sunday the 5th of December   1 pm     When 'Hymns and Arias' rang out at Cardiff Arms Park some fifty years ago, those great Welsh anthems 'Calon Lân' and 'Cwm Rhondda' had found a companion and the valleys of south Wales had produced a new folk hero. He captures the spirit and the story of the people of Wales with a...

Parthian are proud to be supporting so many October panels and we really hope that you enjoy the range of voices across these unmissable events. Read our summary and buy tickets here!

Parthian author Miren Agur Meabe has been awarded the 2021 Spanish National Poetry Award for her latest poetry collection, Nola gorde errautsa kolkoan (Holding ashes close to the heart)! It's the first time in history that poetry written in Basque receives the highest poetry award in Spain. 'This award is for Euskara, my beloved language, and for the Basque Country,' Meabe said upon receiving the prize. Parthian published Meabe's novel A Glass Eye in 2018, and will be releasing Burning Bones, its follow-up short story collection--both translated by Amaia Gabantxo--by the end of 2021. Holding Ashes Close to the Heart...

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...