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We've so many great poetry titles coming to you this autumn! I can't wait to introduce you to these two first full collections! Please join us in Cardiff for the launch of Hey Bert by Roberto Pastore and Sliced Tongue and Pearl Cufflinks by Kittie Belltree. I love Cardiff MADE so much I got married there earlier this year, and the event is free to you all, with some free wine and then an open cafe bar for the evening. 9 October, 7.30pm, Cardiff MADE, 41 Lochaber St, Cardiff CF24 3LS (Arrive at 7 for a 7.30 ish start of readings and...

In May 2020 we will be launching Christina Thatcher's second poetry collection, How to Carry Fire. Ahead of her new online course for the Poetry School, Christina has written a blog post about the burning down of her childhood home, and why, over 10 years later fire still fascinates her. Here's an extract: 'More than ten years on, I still think of our burning home. Every time I sit next to beach bonfires, roast marshmallows, shove kindling into a woodstove, I consider again what fire brings and takes away from us. As a writer, I am fascinated by how fire...

Congratulations to all the overall winners and shortlisted writers of the PENfro Festival Writing Awards. They will all be published in the inaugural Penfro Festival anthology Heartland, which will be launched on Saturday 12 October at PENfro Festival at lunchtime, with judges Rhiannon Hooson and Niall Griffiths present. We really hope to see you there! The overall winner of the Short Story Prize, Richard Owain Roberts, will be releasing his debut novel Hello Friend We Missed You through us in May 2020 and his debut short story collection All The Places We Lived is available from our online store. Richard won for his story...

In association with Ledbury Poetry Festival and with support from Arts Council England, we will be launching a new anthology of poetry in translation, Home on the Move: Two Poems go on a Journey as part of Ledbury Book Festival's Poetry Salon at Ledbury Books and Maps, Ledbury High Street, Ledbury from 7-9pm on 4 October  (the launch part of the event with an introduction to the book, readings and a Q&A will take place between 7 and 8pm). The evening will also include the ever popular Ledbury Open Mic! Tickets £5 on the door (includes a drink). For more info please see...

The Vagabond King is Jodie Bond's first novel and Part One in the Vagabond King fantasy trilogy, launching this October. Jodie was born in Aberystwyth and grew up in the wild hills of mid Wales. She had an unconventional childhood, dividing her time between a quiet life on her mother’s farm and her father’s home which was infamous for holding some of the UK’s biggest raves in the 90s.  She attended a Welsh language school, learning to read and write in Welsh before English. She was passionate about books and writing from a young age, winning the crown at her...