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
Rosy Adams
Rosy Adams 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. (Un)common: Anthology of new Welsh Writing In this anthology, we tread the common ground of “not having”. But our lives are very different and each of our voices spins a different tale. Read on, and you will discover (un)common worlds. There are dragons, cloud-circling and deep-dwelling. Characters travel by bus and by train. They walk, run or even fly, through the pin-drop silence of libraries, through moon-frosted streets and winter-chilled parks, farms, houses, shops, cafés, and possibly the grottiest pub in existence. Family ties are important, and not always the ones you’re born with. Transformation can liberate but also imprison us. We encounter isolation, addiction, tragedy and grief, but we also find love, connection, and hope.
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.
Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts
Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts 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. 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 …
Catrin Lawrence
Catrin Lawrence 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. Gwyllion Language: Bilingual English and Welsh (1 Welsh flash fiction with an accompanying English translation, 8 English short stories) 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.
Guinevere Clark
Guinevere Clark 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). 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
Barbara Hughes-Moore
Barbara Hughes-Moore Twitter Lnr-graduation-hat Link Barbara Hughes-Moore is a writer and law lecturer from Cardiff. Her research, teaching, and creative writing is concerned with the Gothic, haunted by ghosts and the specters of lives, and loves, unled. Her short stories have been published by Horror Scribes, Roath Writers and The Folks. Your browser does not support the audio element. Your browser does not support the audio element. 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
Charly White
Charly White Link Instagram Book-open Charly White is a poet, author and musician from Wales. Her writing focuses on mindfulness, nature, and well-being. She released her first poetry book: A Collection of Wildflowers (Arkbound UK) in March 2024. Her poems are featured in the anthology Mental Health and Poetry for Mental Health (Robin Barratt), the online literary journal Poemstellium, and the literary magazine Coffee People Zine. You can follow her journey @the.poetrygarden on instagram. Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… ‘A Collection of Wildflowers’ by Charly White A Collection of Wildflowers is an eccentric amalgamation of poems, thoughts, questions and simple words written during the authors expeditions around the world. From Welsh mountains, Parisian cafés, temples in Thailand and train journeys in Canada, these words offer the reader a sanctuary to escape the constantly shifting world and to connect with nature, their own mind and the people around them. This collection of poetry invites the reader to join the author in her journey to acknowledge every experience, however mundane, every emotion, however raw, and the undeniable beauty that exists both within us and within nature. MENTAL HEALTH It is undeniable that putting thoughts, feelings and emotions into words, on paper, either with poetry or in a short story format, can be both therapeutic and an incredibly effective method of self-help and healing. In this brave and uncompromising collection, 99 writers and poets around the world explore the themes of mental health, either from their own personal perspectives and experiences, or from the experiences of friends, family and people close by. Covering a broad range of mental health issues, an anthology on this subject is undoubtedly thought-provoking and emotional, but also positive and uplifting too as, for many, putting their feelings into words has set many on the road to creativity, healing and ultimately recovery. Forget Me Not: Poems on Loss Poems written in the aftermath of losing loved ones, from ‘The First Day’ to reflections surfacing years later. We all experience loss in some form during our lifetimes, and those we hold close always leave the biggest mark, whenever their time comes to leave. These words act as the marks left by my grandparents in my own life. I hope they offer some comfort in a chance to come together and connect via the grief and devastation that we all must bear. Thank you for being here. 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 A Collection of Wildflowers Read MENTAL HEALTH Read Forget Me Not: Poems on Loss Read TPS
M. R. Smith
M. R. Smith M.R.Smith is a poet and fiction writer from South Wales. Her work has been published in Zines’ such as Myth & Lore Zine and themed Zines from Coin Operated Press. M.R.Smith loves writing about her relationship with nature and adores all things folklore. She hopes to publish her first chapbook of poetry this year. Your browser does not support the audio element. 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