Join Professor Dai Smith and Professor Peter Stead as they look back on the life and legacy of Gwyn Thomas in this event organised by the Learned Society of Wales. The evening will start at 7pm in Barry Arts Central and is free, but ticketed so registration is required through the event’s webpage. Light refreshments will be available from 6.30pm.
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Art critic, novelist and poet Sue Hubbard will be reading from her latest collection, The Forgetting and Remembering of Air on Thursday 17th October at the Dylan Thomas Centre. The evening will include an open mic night and tickets are priced at £4 or £2.80 for concessions. For more information visit the Dylan Thomas Centre website.
The shortlist for the 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced, with three novels, two collections of short stories and two poetry collections making up the shortlist for this prestigious prize. Seven authors have been shortlisted, instead of the usual six, with judges praising the high quality of this years entrants.
The Prize, which was established in 2006, is open to any English language author under the age of 30 and offers a £30,000 prize to the winner. The competition was first won in 2006 by Rachel Trezise and has since been claimed by writers from around the globe, including Nam Le, Lucy Cadwell and 2012 winner Maggie Shipstead. A winner will be announced at a special ceremony in November. 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist Novels Tim Leach, The Last King of Lydia (Atlantic Books) Marli Roode, Call It Dog (Atlantic Books) Majok Tulba, Beneath the Darkening Sky (OneWorld) Short Stories Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn (Granta) Prajwal Parajuly, The Gurkha’s Daughter (Quercus) Poetry James Brookes, Sins of the Leopard (Salt Publishing) Jemma King, The Shape of a Forest (Parthian) |
AuthorWriting Wales Archives
June 2015
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