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Eric Ngalle Charles
Eric Ngalle Charles is a Cameroonian born, Wales based writer, poet and playwright. His first play "My mouth brought me here" was performed at London’s South Bank Centre in August 2016 and at the Hay Festival on the 30th May 2017. Eric’s latest Play "The Last Ritual" will be performed at Hay on the 28th May 2018 (event number 165).
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Eluned Gramich
Eluned Gramich was born in Haverfordwest and is a Welsh-German writer and translator. She won the People and Places: New Welsh Writing Award in 2015 with a memoir based on her experiences of Hokkaido, Japan,
Woman Who Brings the Rain. She was also runner-up in the Bare Fiction Prize 2017, the Terry Hetherington Award 2015 and short-listed for the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2011. Her writing has appeared in
New Welsh Short Stories, Stand, The Lonely Crowd and
Rarebit, Wales Arts Review, New Welsh Review, and
Notes on the Underground.
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Rhian Elizabeth
Rhian Elizabeth was born in 1988 and lives in Cardiff. Her novel, Six Pounds Eight Ounces, was shortlisted for The International Rubery Book Award. Her debut poetry collection is due to be published by Parthian. She will travel to Sweden this summer to represent Wales at the Coracle Europe International Literary Residency.
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Louise Walsh
Louise Walsh is a novelist and former amateur boxer. Her first novel,
Fighting Pretty (Seren Books), drew on her knowledge of the amateur boxing world in Wales. Her second novel,
Black River (Carreg Gwalch), was inspired by her research into press intrusion at Aberfan following the 1966 disaster. Louise lives in Cardiff where she is working on a third novel set against the backdrop of the 1984 miners’ strike in Wales.
Twitter -
@LouJaneWalsh1
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Wendy White
Wendy’s first children’s book, ‘Welsh Cakes and Custard’ (Gomer Press), won the Tir Nan’Og Award in 2014. She has three other children’s books published with Gomer. She writes for adults as Sara Gethin and her debut novel, ‘Not Thomas’ (Honno) was shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize 2017.
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Emily Blewitt
Emily Blewitt was Highly Commended in the 2016 Forward Prizes. She has published poetry widely in magazines and anthologies, and is the poetry submissions editor for
New Welsh Review. Her debut collection of poetry,
This Is Not A Rescue, was published by Seren Books in April 2017.
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Jane Fraser
Jane Fraser lives and works in Gower, spending her time writing fiction in English and being Creative Director at NB: Design. She is seeking a publisher for a short story collection and an historical novel. In 2017 she was a finalist in the Manchester Fiction Prize and in 2018 gained 2
nd place in the Fish Memoir Prize. PhD Creative Writing 2017.
Website -
www.janefraserwriter.com
Twitter -
@jfraserwriter
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Hanan Issa
Hanan is a mixed-race Welsh writer whose work has been featured on ITV Wales and BBC Radio Wales, published in Banat Collective, Hedgehog Press, Sukoon mag, and
MuslimGirl.com, and performed at the Bush Theatre’s Hijabi Monologues. She is the co-founder of Cardiff's BAME open mic 'Where I'm Coming From' and is currently working on a feature film project in partnership with Film4.
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Durre Shahwar
Durre Shahwar is a writer, creative practitioner, Associate Editor for Wales Arts Review and co-founder of ‘Where I’m Coming From’ (open mic promoting BAME writing in Wales). She writes about a broad range of topics, including identity, gender and mental health. Durre has been published in various magazines and anthologies including Know Your Place (2017), The Lonely Crowd, Cheval, and We Shall Fight Until We Win (2018).
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Elan Grug Muse
Grug Muse is a PhD student at the Welsh department in Swansea University. She won the chair at the 2013 Urdd eisteddfod; is co-editor of
Y Stamp; a member of the
Cywion Cranogwen collective; and in 2017 published her first volume of poetry,
Ar Ddisberod with Cyhoeddiadau Barddas.
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Samantha O’Rourke
Samantha O’Rourke is a playwright, originally from Cheshire now living in North Wales. She is currently Writer on Attachment with Liverpool’s Everyman Playhouse. Recent projects include ‘No Persons Only Women’ (Volcano Theatre, Swansea), Liverpool First (Everyman/Williamson Tunnels) and Quantum (YEP, Everyman Theatre).
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Gareth Evans-Jones
Gareth lives in Traeth Bychan, Anglesey and he is a lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Bangor, Bangor University. He was awarded a New Author Scholarship by Literature Wales in 2017, and his first volume of creative prose,
Eira Llwyd, will be published in the autumn this year.
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Emily Vanderploeg
Emily Vanderploeg has an MA and PhD in Creative Writing (Swansea University), and teaches at Queen’s University and with the Young Writers’ Squad. Her writing has been published in both the UK and Canada, and was shortlisted for the Impress Prize. Originally from Aurora, Ontario, Canada, she lives in Swansea.
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Morgan Owen
Morgan comes from Merthyr Tydfil, and is a poet and writer. Last year, he won the D Gwyn Evans Memorial Trophy, awarded to the best poem by a poet under 25 (by Barddas). In September, Morgan will start a PhD at Bangor University in Welsh literature. He contributes frequently and regularly to Welsh publications such as
Barddas, O’r Pedwar Gwynt and the
Stamp.
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Eloise Williams
Eloise Williams writes fiction for young people. A Literature Wales bursary recipient, her second novel
Gaslight (2017 Firefly Press), won Wales Arts Review Young People’s Book of the Year 2017 and is shortlisted in the Tir na n-Og Awards 2018. Eloise is currently working on her fourth novel, set in Llantrisant, where she (almost) grew up.
Website -
www.eloisewilliams.com
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Catrin Kean
Catrin Kean is a Welsh writer who has won many awards including Bafta Cymru 2016 for her short children’s film ‘Dad’. Her short stories have been published in Riptide Journal, Bridge House Anthologies and The Ghastling. She lives in Cardiff and is working on her first novel.
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Alison Powell
Alison Powell, originally from South Wales, writes short fiction that has appeared in various publications, including
Mslexia. She is also working on a novel and won runner-up prize in 2016’s Bridport First Novel Award. She is co-founder of the Bristol-based WriteClub and is currently co-editing the National Flash Fiction anthology.
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Ruth Richards
Ruth Richards lives in Anglesey. She divides her writing between the past and present, and the rest of her time between lobbying for the Welsh language and studying photography and Welsh literature in the nineteenth century for a PhD at Bangor University.
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Meg Elis
Meg was born in Aberystwyth in 1950, but has lived and worked in Gwynedd since 1976. She is a freelance translator and writer, who graduated in Welsh from Bangor in 1972 and obtained a doctorate in Creative Writing from Bangor, 2017. She is the author of 3 novels, 1 volume of short stories and is a regular contributor /reviewer to Welsh press.
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Rufus Mufasa
Rufus is a literary activist and lyrical genre hopper, and has travelled and toured profusely but always returns to Pontypridd, which she has made her home. Rufus' work explores a cocktail of disciplines, the avant-garde "ness" of multilingualism, the threading of ancestry, filled with hope and heart. Currently developing a poetry collection with support from a Writers Bursary from Literature Wales.
