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Win a copy of Georgia Carys William's lyrical debut novel Unspeakable Beauty, with Mslexia. Competition closes on the 11th of December, full details on the Mslexia instagram.  Growing up in a lonely house on the edge of a wild common, Violet Hart is a quiet and sheltered only child who has always dreamt of becoming something extraordinary: a ballet icon as famous as Margot Fonteyn. Guarding her dream closely after suffering catastrophic loss, Violet falls further into quietness, learning to speak only with her feet as she pursues a path to a career in dance. On the cusp of adulthood, she...

Read the first 30 pages of sci-fi classic The Last Day by Owain Owain, translated from Welsh by Emyr Wallace Humphreys.

On day 6 listen to the This Place Podcast; writer and creator Kathryn Tann meets with poet Natalie Ann Holborow on her daily walking route down the salt marshes of North Gower. Rambling down the Loughor Estuary to discuss Natalie's latest poetry collection and the importance of creative exploration: of getting out in nature, and out of comfort zones, but also those safe places with familiar rhythms and memories that we often turn back to.  Natalie Ann Holborow is a celebrated poet and winner of the Terry Hetherinton Award and the Robin Reeves Prize. Her poetry collections include And Suddenly You Find Yourself, Small and...

Get 50% off Woman's Wales?: The Dissonance and Diversity of Devolution Through the Lives of Women in Wales. Just use code ADVENT5 at the checkout -running for 24hours only!

'Autobiographical, alluring, with keen evocations of Welsh setting and clever reworkings of Christian images, Julia Bell’s Hymnal is a hymn to “the possibilities of … life unfolding”. Amen to that.' – Mab Jones, Buzz Magazine