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Lindsay Comer

Lindsay Comer X-twitter Comments Link Lindsay holds an MA in Creative Writing and is based in South Wales. Her short stories, flash fiction and poetry has been published internationally in lit mags and journals including: Gwyllion Magazine, Wishbone Words, The Unwritten, The Daily Drunk Mag, The Viridian Door, Litmora Literary Magazine, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, The Dirigible Balloon, The Hooghly Review, Periwinkle Pelican and The Maudlin House. Her short stories also feature in anthologies including Laughs in Space (Slab Press) and Grimm Retold (Speculation Publications.) You can find her on Twitter- or her website Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… Gwyllion Gwyllion can be many things. The ghosts and spirits that haunt the halls at twilight, the dusk wanderers up to no good. The scoundrels and the miscreants. The wise old fae who take no nonsense from humans. Hags and witches, wisps and sprites, the gwyllion are every malevolent trickster that wanders the night in search of mischief. They are not your friends. Any who are so unfortunate to encounter the gwyllion are led astray, haunted, frightened quite to death. Cackling laughter and strange cries across the moor, voices hidden in the storm. Our magazine is a place you can get lost, if only for a moment, only to emerge to find a hundred years have passed. Our stories will enchant you, if you would let yourself be enchanted. We cannot promise you comfort, we cannot promise you safety. Only this; an experience, an adventure, a moment set apart from the mundane hum to find glory in the dark and hidden spaces in between. We will not be held responsible if you lose your way. Grimm Retold Gwyllion can be many things. The ghosts and spirits that haunt the halls at twilight, the dusk wanderers up to no good. The scoundrels and the miscreants. The wise old fae who take no nonsense from humans. Hags and witches, wisps and sprites, the gwyllion are every malevolent trickster that wanders the night in search of mischief. They are not your friends. Any who are so unfortunate to encounter the gwyllion are led astray, haunted, frightened quite to death. Cackling laughter and strange cries across the moor, voices hidden in the storm. Our magazine is a place you can get lost, if only for a moment, only to emerge to find a hundred years have passed. Our stories will enchant you, if you would let yourself be enchanted. We cannot promise you comfort, we cannot promise you safety. Only this; an experience, an adventure, a moment set apart from the mundane hum to find glory in the dark and hidden spaces in between. We will not be held responsible if you lose your way. Laughs in Space Donna Scott is an established science-fiction editor, who recently won the BSFA Award for Best Collection for The Best of British Science Fiction 2022. She just so happens to be a stand-up comedian too – an Old Comedian of the Year finalist, Some Antics Comedy finalist, and part of the multi-award-winning cast of The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen and has performed comedy at numerous science-fiction conventions over the years. With Laughs in Space, Donna looked for incisive science-fiction stories from the cream of the genre’s contemporary authors, but with a funny twist. Stories that are funny, quirky, eyebrow-raising and heartwarming – or bleak and sweary if that’s more your thing. Read stories about tech going wrong; broken spaceships; alien housemates; the tribulations of dating outside one’s species, and the odd chicken. I mean really odd. There is black humour, there’s absurdism, clever funny, silly funny – all kinds of funny! These Pages Sing: Autumn 2024 Published in 2024 Autumn 2024 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Autumn 2024 Wordsmiths: Sue Moules, Gareth Writer-Davies, Carolyn Thomas, George Sandifer-Smith, Sheila Jacob, Catrin Mari, Sue Regan, Angela Graham, Elizabeth Lockwood, Angela Arnold, Charly White, M.R.Smith, Barbara Hughes-Moore, Guinevere Clark, Catrin Lawrence, Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts, Rosy Adams, Jonah Jones. Cover Illustrated by Kornelia Urbaniak. Read Gwyllion Read Grimm Retold Read Laughs in Space Read TPS

Aneeta Sundararaj

Aneeta Sundararaj Instagram Im-amazon Star Aneeta Sundararaj is the recipient of the Trisha Ashley Award in 2022 and the 2022 H.E. Bates Short Story Prize. She was longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2023 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2024. The stories for these prizes / nominations are included in Aneeta’s latest collection of short stories, ‘Tapestry of the Mind and Other Stories’ (Penguin Random House SEA, June 2024). To date, she’s worked multiple book projects and has contributed articles and stories to a national newspaper, magazines, ezines and journals. Her most recent and bestselling novel, The Age of Smiling Secrets was shortlisted for the Anugerah Buku 2020 organised by the National Library of Malaysia. Throughout, Aneeta continued to pursue her academic interests and, in 2021, successfully completed a doctoral thesis entitled ‘Management of Prosperity Among Artistes in Malaysia’. To know more, please visit http://www.aneetasundararaj.com. She occasionally tweets at @httags. Read More… The Moth Box Landscape and nature take centre stage in this practised collection. Here we have a bird’s – or perhaps moth’s – eye view of the natural world and the ways in which we interact (and often fail to interact) with it. The Moth Box also interrogates our various environments: ecological, linguistic, national – even astrological and philosophical. Camouflage, too, plays a role; certainly with creatures such as the eponymous moth, but also the disguises in which we cloak ourselves. This is a collection teeming with life, but for all the cats, moths, birds, trees, The Moth Box never forgets what it is to be human. How To Tell A Great Story How To Tell A Great Story will equip you with powerful storytelling techniques that master storytellers have used throughout time to amaze and engage their audiences. This simple, but powerful beginner’s guidebook, makes learning storytelling techniques easy and explains things in simple language. When you read this book, you will learn how to start telling your own story quickly and effortlessly; construct a fascinating, well-structured story from scratch; use powerful master storytelling techniques to amaze your family and friends; find interesting ideas and inspiration for your stories; and, vividly and expertly describe the characters and settings in your stories. The Age of Smiling Secrets “No woman should ever have to lose her child. And not in the heart-breaking way that Kamini lost hers.” Malaysia is in a unique position where both the laws of Syariah and the Civil Law are practised concurrently. This has given rise to a conflict in jurisdiction in certain cases. For instance, where a non-Muslim couple is married under the provisions of the Civil Law, confusion arises when one party converts to Islam and converts their children as well. A custody battle often ensues where the Syariah Court can grant custody of the children to their newly converted Muslim parent while the High Court of Malaya can grant custody to the non-Muslim parent. THE AGE OF SMILING SECRETS is a work of fiction that is based on this legal position. These Pages Sing: Autumn 2024 Published in 2024 Autumn 2024 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Autumn 2024 Wordsmiths: Sue Moules, Gareth Writer-Davies, Carolyn Thomas, George Sandifer-Smith, Sheila Jacob, Catrin Mari, Sue Regan, Angela Graham, Elizabeth Lockwood, Angela Arnold, Charly White, M.R.Smith, Barbara Hughes-Moore, Guinevere Clark, Catrin Lawrence, Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts, Rosy Adams, Jonah Jones. Cover Illustrated by Kornelia Urbaniak. Read Tapestry of the Mind Read How To Tell A Great Story Read The Age of Smiling Secrets Read TPS

Jonah Jones

Jonah Jones Jonah Jones lives in Llantwit Major and has several short stories and poems published in various anthologies and magazines, together with stage and radio scripts produced and broadcast. He also writes and directs short films. Read More… These Pages Sing: Autumn 2024 Published in 2024 Autumn 2024 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Autumn 2024 Wordsmiths: Sue Moules, Gareth Writer-Davies, Carolyn Thomas, George Sandifer-Smith, Sheila Jacob, Catrin Mari, Sue Regan, Angela Graham, Elizabeth Lockwood, Angela Arnold, Charly White, M.R.Smith, Barbara Hughes-Moore, Guinevere Clark, Catrin Lawrence, Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts, Rosy Adams, Jonah Jones. Cover Illustrated by Kornelia Urbaniak. Read TPS

Rosy Adams

Rosy Adams Location-arrow Instagram Info Rosy Adams grew up in the Bannau Brycheiniog where she spent most of her time in the library or up the mountain. Her writing has been published by The Lampeter Review, Grim & Gilded, Lucent Dreaming, and The Amphibian amongst others, and she edited and contributed to (un)common: anthology of new Welsh writing published by Lucent Dreaming. She is inspired by myth and fairy tale, and is currently working on a short story collection. Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… Spring 2025 | Vol. 60 Issue 3: The 60th Anniversary Issue A landmark issue for Poetry Wales, featuring sixty new Welsh poets chosen by Editor Zoë Brigley as ‘poets to watch’. Plus, an extended reviews section with reviews from top names in Welsh literature. Folding Rock 004: Telling Tales Featuring new work from writers including Lucie McKnight Hardy, Tom Bullough, Fríða Ísberg and Sadia Pineda Hameed Time tells us that one story can branch into a great oak of different tales. Folklore, it seems, is tightly woven into our lives, our histories, and the way we understand the world – no matter where we come from. From Welsh chapels in the hills of Mizoram, to ancient stones on Yns Môn. From Icelandic shores to a lakeside in Yr Eryri. Hidden secrets, haunting losses, confessions, obsessions and transformations… Issue 004 spreads its boughs far further than the pages of the Mabinogion. These Pages Sing: Autumn 2024 Published in 2024 Autumn 2024 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Autumn 2024 Wordsmiths: Sue Moules, Gareth Writer-Davies, Carolyn Thomas, George Sandifer-Smith, Sheila Jacob, Catrin Mari, Sue Regan, Angela Graham, Elizabeth Lockwood, Angela Arnold, Charly White, M.R.Smith, Barbara Hughes-Moore, Guinevere Clark, Catrin Lawrence, Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts, Rosy Adams, Jonah Jones. Cover Illustrated by Kornelia Urbaniak. Read Poetry Wales Read Folding Rock Read TPS

Catrin Lawrence

Catrin Lawrence Instagram Jltma-material-icon-filter_vintage Link Catrin Lawrence is a writer of the strange, fantastical, and morbid. Her short fiction has been published by Gwyllion Magazine, and appeared in anthologies by Black Hare Press and Parthian Books. Read More… Gwyllion Issue 7 Gwyllion is a non-profit, bi-annual genre fiction semiprozine which focuses on publishing science fiction, fantasy and horror from Wales. We publish two online issues a year as well as a limited run of physical copies. Cheval 12 A poet watches a fox in her garden. A fruit seller is confronted by the Terrible Tunisian Tigress. An office worker longs to escape the confines of his desk job. For twelve years the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award has provided a platform for emerging young writers from and living in Wales. In this year’s edition of Cheval, we celebrate the very best stories and poems which were entered into the latest award. These Pages Sing: Autumn 2024 Published in 2024 Autumn 2024 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Autumn 2024 Wordsmiths: Sue Moules, Gareth Writer-Davies, Carolyn Thomas, George Sandifer-Smith, Sheila Jacob, Catrin Mari, Sue Regan, Angela Graham, Elizabeth Lockwood, Angela Arnold, Charly White, M.R.Smith, Barbara Hughes-Moore, Guinevere Clark, Catrin Lawrence, Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts, Rosy Adams, Jonah Jones. Cover Illustrated by Kornelia Urbaniak. Read Gwyllion Read Cheval 12 Read TPS

Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas Instagram Twitter Threads Carolyn Thomas is from Tonna, a village in the Neath Valley in South Wales, but has lived on Tyneside since her days as a student at Newcastle University. Now retired after a career of teaching in Further, Higher and Adult Education, she is now enjoying the freedom to write. She has reviewed for Stand and published poetry in Dreich, Impossible Archetype, The Ekphrastic Review and elsewhere as well as stories in two anthologies published by Honno Press, Lipstick Eyebrows and Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, which contains her account of life as a gay woman in the 1970s. She lives with a misanthropic cat, still thinks of Wales as home and, stereotypically, sports a dragon tattoo. Recent Work Road Closed Fingertips Salt marsh, Llanrhidsian Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More from These Pages Sing… Autumn 2025 – We Ran Like Townies Your browser does not support the audio element. Spring 2025 – Toasting Muriel With Ice Cream Your browser does not support the audio element. Spring 2025 – Dydd Sul Y Blodau Your browser does not support the audio element. Your browser does not support the audio element. Your browser does not support the audio element. Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… Lipstick Eyebrows Chosen for their contemporary edge in both setting and story, this collection reflects the lives of contemporary women of mixed age and background. The collection hosts an all-female cast covering themes of travel, arrival, change, reconciliation, departures, estrangement, death, survival and the intricacies of women’s lives. Stories included: Kate Waddon: Wild Romances, Carolyn Thomas: The King of the Fairies, Gosia Buzzanca: Summer’s End, Silvia Rose: By the Water’s Edge, Naomi Paulus: Lipstick Eyebrows, Julie Primon: Something about weddings, Tracey Rhys: Pearls Before Swine, Chinyere Chukwude-Okeh: To buy an expensive dream, Ellen Davies: Scab Painting the Beauty Queens Orange The ‘70s wasn’t all glam rock and flares, punk and pogo-ing… In Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, the women who lived the decade reveal what it meant to push boundaries, claim your identity, and carve out your place amidst the winter of discontent, the scorching summer of ‘76 and the rise of Thatcherism. One young woman says a forced goodbye to her newborn baby. Another grasps new opportunities and sets sail on a LGP Tanker with a crew of men. A third asserts her sexual identity. A fourth sets up a kitchen table business that launches an international brand. These stories of ambition and adventure, motherhood and marriage, are by turns heart-breaking, humorous, and honest. These Pages Sing: Autumn 2024 Published in 2024 Autumn 2024 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Autumn 2024 Wordsmiths: Sue Moules, Gareth Writer-Davies, Carolyn Thomas, George Sandifer-Smith, Sheila Jacob, Catrin Mari, Sue Regan, Angela Graham, Elizabeth Lockwood, Angela Arnold, Charly White, M.R.Smith, Barbara Hughes-Moore, Guinevere Clark, Catrin Lawrence, Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts, Rosy Adams, Jonah Jones. Cover Illustrated by Kornelia Urbaniak. Read Lipstick Eyebrows Read Painting the Beauty Queens Orange Read TPS

Gareth Writer-Davies

Gareth Writer-Davies Gareth Writer-Davies is from Pencelli, Wales. His work has been recognized multiple times in various competitions, including being shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2014 and 2017. He was also commended in the Prole Laureate Competition in 2015 and 2021, and was named the Prole Laureate for 2017. Gareth received commendations in the Welsh Poetry Competition in 2015 and was highly commended in 2017. In 2023, he won the Wirral Festival Poetry Competition and was the runner-up in the Spelt Poetry Competition. In 2024, he was the runner-up in the Mid Wales Poetry Prize. Gareth was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2019. His published works include Bodies (2015) and Cry Baby (2017) by Indigo Dreams. He has also published The Lover’s Pinch (2018), The End (2019), and Wysg (2022) by Arenig Press. Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… Wysg In WYSG Gareth Writer-Davies is instantly recognisable, as he navigates the borderlands of Wales, seeking to bridge the new and the familiar; the streaming of our lives, our conflicts with nature, getting older and always, where we have been and where we are going? Katherine Stansfield: “In these sharply-worked, elegant poems, Gareth Writer-Davies takes the reader on a voyage of mid Wales which invites us to see this landscape in a vivid light. Along sheep paths and riverways, up mountains and through churchyards, the body attempts to ‘catch what the water is saying’. An engaging iconoclasm ripples through the rivers and lakes of these poems – this watery, hilled place often offers up darkly funny conciliations for those who explore. Poems have a quiet insistence on being present in this place of water and ruins which resolutely reminds human beings of our transitory position and of nature’s deep presence. Watched by sheep and owls, wagtails and otters, kites and trout and the effigies of long-dead knights, we roam and return in this rich world. Though we find we’re ‘no good shepherd’ for this place, we keep walking, keep listening, and there is so much that we can learn.” The End Poems from the edge of annihilation, leavened with black humour and pastiche, musings upon poetry and posterity even as death beckons. The Lover’s Pinch Gareth Writer-Davies fleshes out his twin subjects of love and sex in poems of affection, sardonic humour and a characteristic lightness of touch that makes his first collection both exceptionally readable and an intimate pleasure. Summer 2020 | Vo. 56 Issue 1 | Tryweryn at 55 Featuring writing from: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Gareth Prior, Jeni Williams, Jon Gower, Moniza Alvi, Cris Paul, Nerys Williams, David Clarke, David Morley, Anna Woodford, Huw Jones, Llŷr Lewis, Joanna Ingham, Michael McKimm, Helen Tookey, Jannat Ahmed, Mari Ellis Dunning, Michael Arnold Williams, Tishani Doshi, Philip Gross, David Briggs, Carrie Etter, Nicholas McGaughey, Gareth Writer-Davies, Bryony Littlefair, Sampurna Chattarji, Luke Samuel Yates, Jon Stone, Kathy Miles, Benjamin Palmer, Ifor Thomas, Rob Miles, Paul Henry, Dai George, John Greening, Kirsten Irving, P.C. Evans. Edited by Jonathan Edwards. Read Wysg Read The End Read The Lover’s Pinch Read Poetry Wales

Jonah Jones

Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts

Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts Link Facebook Instagram Rebecca Roberts is a writer and translator from Prestatyn in north Wales. The author of ten novels (published by Gomer@Lolfa, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch and Honno), she writes in both English and Welsh. Her first YA novel, #helynt, won the 2021 Tir na n-Og Award and 2021 Children and Young Person’s Book of the Year award. Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… Mudferwi Merch dawel a swil yw Alys, sy’n ddigon hapus yn gweithio yng nghegin ysgol y pentref… hynny yw, nes i’r gegin honno gau. Penderfyna wneud cais am swydd mewn bwyty lleol sydd newydd gael ei brynu gan gogydd teledu enwog – cogydd sydd ddim yn hoffi’r syniad o ferched yn gweithio yn ei gegin. Eat. Sleep. Rage. Repeat When Caitlin Bennet returns to her old school as a new teacher, she is determined to turn the lives of her students around. Disruptive classes – no problem. An unsupportive head teacher – fine. Then, she finds herself accused of a crime which could end her teaching career. She sets out to clear her name, but to do so she must revisit the hellish past she has tried so hard to escape. #Helynt ENILLYDD GWOBR TIR NA N-OG 2021 & CHATEGORI PLANT A PHOBL IFANC LLYFR Y FLWYDDYN 2021 Mae colli’r bws i’r ysgol yn gallu newid dy fywyd di … Penderfyna Rachel fynd ar antur yn nhre’r Rhyl yn hytrach na mynd adref, gan ganfod ei hun mewn clwb nos ar lan y môr. Yn y clwb nos mae hi’n cyfarfod â Shane, dyn golygus, llawn dirgelwch sy’n gwybod rhywbeth am ei gorffennol … cyfrinach allai chwalu ei theulu. Ond mae Rachel yn awchu i gael y gwirionedd ganddo … Read Mudferwi Read Eat. Sleep. Rage. Repeat Read #Helynt Anfarwol Mae chwech disgybl cwrs trochi Ysgol Uwchradd Glan y Gors yn mynd ar drip ysgol i wersyll Coed Daniel. Ond nhw ydi’r unig ddosbarth sy’n llwyddo i gyrraedd pen y daith. Mae’r criw yn gaeth yn y gwersyll, mae’r goedwig gyfagos yn llawn bwystfilod, ac mae eu hathrawes yn sâl. A fedran nhw weithio gyda’i gilydd er mwyn achub ei bywyd hi a ffoi rhag y gelyn anfarwol? Diwedd y Gân Mae Sophie a gweddill band Konquest yn dal i chwilio am lwyddiant ac enwogrwydd, ond tydi’r llwybr ddim yn un esmwyth. Pan gaiff y band gynnig cytundeb recordio ar yr amod fod Sophie yn gadael fel prif leisydd, mae gan y criw benderfyniad anodd i’w wneud. Dilyniant i Curiad Gwag. These Pages Sing: Autumn 2024 Published in 2024 Autumn 2024 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Autumn 2024 Wordsmiths: Sue Moules, Gareth Writer-Davies, Carolyn Thomas, George Sandifer-Smith, Sheila Jacob, Catrin Mari, Sue Regan, Angela Graham, Elizabeth Lockwood, Angela Arnold, Charly White, M.R.Smith, Barbara Hughes-Moore, Guinevere Clark, Catrin Lawrence, Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts, Rosy Adams, Jonah Jones. Cover Illustrated by Kornelia Urbaniak. Read Anfarwol Read Diwedd y Gân Read TPS

Guinevere Clark

Guinevere Clark Facebook Twitter Link Sun Guinevere Clark holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University, on the poetics of motherhood, sexuality, and place, exploring liminal spaces, gender inequality and the mother-child relationship. She teaches poetry at Swansea’s Taliesin Arts Centre. Recent award short listings are: The Wales Poetry Award, Poetry London, Hammond House, Cinnamon Press, and a longlisting in The Nature Chronicles Prize. She’s published widely: Poetry Wales, Atlanta Review, Magma, Minerva Rising and Demeter Press. She leads Poetry Into Light, an enterprise that celebrates and empowers community through poetry. Her first collection is Fresh Fruit & Screams (Bluechrome, 2006). Your browser does not support the audio element. Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… Fresh Fruit and Screams Fresh Fruit and Screams is a vivid collection of poetry travelling through sexual highs and lows, club culture, urban depression and spiritual awakening. Guinevere even attempts to re-write a few hard and fast tales, broaches contemporary politics and offers heart felt comment on the world’s conflict. There’s a definite Mother Earth feel to her work. She reveres the natural world exploring stunning seascapes, magical forests and megalithic monuments. There is humour in Guinevere’s poetry as well as deep metaphysics. Her work ranges from autobiographical to pure fantasy, or is it? She writes with awe, passion and emotional intelligence. Fresh Fruit and Screams is a cornucopia of rare and engaging poetry which seems to touch on all things important. Here is a new and exciting voice to contemporary poetry. ‘She is innovative and in love with language.’ Angela Topping. ‘Clark’s work is vivid, dramatic, sometimes unsettling, maybe even downright disturbing, but whatever you wish to call it, it is extremely well written. There is certainly a dark, Plath-like edge …’ New Hope International Poetry Into Light Poetry Into Light CIC is a new South Wales 2025 start-up, not-for-profit organisation, offering workshops, projects, and productions. We facilitate and promote poetry from grassroots to professional levels. Our group is a Community Interest Company (CIC) to reflect our goals around engaging diverse, ambitious, and less-represented voices through poetry and creative writing. We are supported by Business Wales, Richard Newton Consultancy, The University of South Wales and the Bright Ideas Den. These Pages Sing: Autumn 2024 Published in 2024 Autumn 2024 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Autumn 2024 Wordsmiths: Sue Moules, Gareth Writer-Davies, Carolyn Thomas, George Sandifer-Smith, Sheila Jacob, Catrin Mari, Sue Regan, Angela Graham, Elizabeth Lockwood, Angela Arnold, Charly White, M.R.Smith, Barbara Hughes-Moore, Guinevere Clark, Catrin Lawrence, Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts, Rosy Adams, Jonah Jones. Cover Illustrated by Kornelia Urbaniak. Read Fresh Fruit and Screams Learn More About PIL Read TPS