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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...

'This is profound poetry, spiritual and wise and while engaging with difficult themes (life often being a difficult business) it does so with grace and some humour.'

Read the review in full on Wales Arts Review