Catherine McCarthy

Catherine McCarthy X-twitter Social_rss Instagram Pen-alt Catherine McCarthy is a Welsh working class writer who weaves dark tales on an ancient loom. Her short fiction can be found in publications such as Gamut Magazine, Dark Matter Magazine and Haven Spec Magazine. She has also published several novellas and novels, and continues to put the proverbial pen to good use on a daily basis. Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… The House at the End of Lacelean Street It’s midnight and in the midst of an ice storm when Claudia Dance boards the bright yellow bus to Lacelean Street, a destination she has never heard of. She has no coat, no luggage, and no clue as to why she left home. In fact, she has no memory of her past whatsoever, and yet she feels compelled to make the trip. She will come to realize that salvation lies within the red-brick house at the end of Lacelean Street, a salvation granted by the strange power that dwells within. Sanity will be questioned, limits tested, and answers revealed… But at what price? Read More Death of a Clown Born and raised into the Sacred Order of Tragicomedy, Chester Brown’s path is written in stone. The bulbous nose and gigantic feet define him physically, while The Sacred Church of Razzmatazz ensnares him in its grip. For Chester there can be no escape…or so he believes. But Chester Brown has a secret passion―he longs to become a writer. When a chance encounter leads him on an existential pilgrimage across Europe, a new world begins to surface. Will Chester manage to erase the marks of the clown, or will the bonds of his past prove unbreakable? Read More Mosaic SOMETHING WICKED WAITS. When Robin Griffiths embarks upon the restoration of a stained-glass window in a thirteenth-century church, little does she comprehend the stakes involved. The more slivers of glass she pieces together, the more she realizes things are not what they appear to be in the seemingly cozy hamlet of Bilbury. Piece by piece, sliver by sliver, the window is revealed in all its glory. But will she survive with her sanity intact, or will reawakening the image in the window prove to be her undoing? Read More These Pages Sing – Renewal (Spring) 2026 Renewal (Spring) 2026 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More

Lesley James

Lesley James Instagram Link Twitter   Lesley James was a part of Representing Wales 2024-25, Literature Wales’s flagship writers’ development programme. She also won a Big Welsh Rhyme Time commission from Book Trust Cymru. She was shortlisted for the Borzello Poetry Prize and her work appears in a wide range of literary magazines and anthologies. Her debut poetry pamphlet A Walk With Scissors is published by Infinity Summer Holidays 2025 – Scent Summer Holiday 2025 – Uncle Jonnny’s Wife Read More… Afonydd Lleisiau hanner cant o feirdd yn llifo gydag afonydd Cymru. Pob cerdd yn Gymraeg a Saesneg, wedi’i chyfieithu o’r naill iaith i’r llall. Fifty Welsh poets speak for and with the rivers of Wales. isEvery poem translated Welsh to English, English to Welsh. Read More Hearth Food An anthology of essays and personal recipes, this book invites the question: what does food mean to you? How is that bond with family passed down through food and the act of sitting down to eat? What happens when that is lost? Everybody has a story, a recipe, a memory – good or bad – that involves a meal with family. Read More These Pages Sing – Summer Holidays 2025 Summer Holidays 2025 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More These Pages Sing – Renewal (Spring) 2026 Renewal (Spring) 2026 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More

Michael Kelleher

Michael Kelleher Link Instagram Pen-alt Mike is a son of working-class Irish immigrants who took two-three jobs to buy his uniform to attend Grammar School where he was spectacularly unsuccessful. A trade union scholarship as an adult enabled him to go to University where he went on to gain a PhD from the University of Bath. He started writing poetry in his 70s and has published in anthologies and in These Pages Sing. He is hard of hearing and is inspired by this lived experience, membership of the Irish diaspora and his love of Wales where has lived for over thirty years. Mike is delighted to have been selected for the 2025-26 Representing Wales programme managed by Literature Wales Your browser does not support the audio element. Spring 2025 – Allotments Your browser does not support the audio element. Spring 2025 – I only wanted a book 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… These Pages Sing – Spring 2025 Spring 2025 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More These Pages Sing – Renewal (Spring) 2026 Renewal (Spring) 2026 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More

Dee Montague

Dee Montague Facebook Link Instagram Dee Montague (she/they) lives in South Wales with her husband and their cats, Ahsoka and Bo-Catan, where she writes stories and poems about topics including disability, bereavement, and general farce. Dee has previously been published in Beyond / Tu Hwnt: Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled writers, These Pages Sing, Wales Haiku Journal, and the 2021 Roath Writers Anthology, To the Sofa and Back Again. She hopes that 2026 will be the year she finally finishes writing their debut novel. Your browser does not support the audio element. Spring 2025 – Ableist in Aisle 3 Read More… Beyond / Tu Hwnt edited by Bethany Handley, Megan Angharad Hunter and Sioned Erin Hughes (Paperback, 2025) Blodeugerdd o Ysgrifenwyr Cymraeg Byddar ac Anabl / Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers Read More These Pages Sing – Spring 2025 Spring 2025 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More These Pages Sing – Renewal (Spring) 2026 Renewal (Spring) 2026 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More

Ruth Raye-Sparrow

Ruth Raye-Sparrow Ruth Raye-Sparrow is a poet based in South Wales. They are interested in exploring memory and the internal landscape of the past, as well as their experiences and observations of life in an inner city. They are now ready to share their work with like-minded creatives. They are based in Cardiff, teach Yoga, and enjoy dancing. Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… These Pages Sing – Renewal (Spring) 2026 Renewal (Spring) 2026 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More

Siân Jones

Siân Jones Siân Jones is a Cardiff-based poet whose work explores nature and landscape. Her work have appeared in These Pages Sing, and much of her writing grows from the long walks she takes through Welsh hills and coastlines. Summer 2025 – Tabancos Bar, Spain Read More… These Pages Sing – Summer Holiday 2025 Summer Holiday 2025 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More These Pages Sing – Renewal (Spring) 2026 Renewal (Spring) 2026 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More

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Ellen Davies

Ellen Davies Instagram Ellen Davies is a writer from the Rhondda. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales, Mslexia and opposite Magazine, amongst other publications. Her short stories have been published by Honno and The Ghastling. Ellen’s poetry pamphlet ‘Accent’ was published by Cinnamon Press in 2015. Renewal (Spring) 2026 – False Spring Spring 2025 – Stolen Read More… Accent Family, mining, language, food, and relationships weave through this sensual, deft, honest collection that moves from shock to comfort, from dark to light, from loss to celebration with a suppleness that marks out Ellen Davies as a bold new talent. Read More These Pages Sing – Spring 2025 Spring 2025 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More These Pages Sing – Renewal (Spring) 2026 Renewal (Spring) 2026 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More

Catrin Cheung

Catrin Cheung Instagram Catrin is a Welsh/Cantonese writer from North Wales, exploring identity, belonging and spirituality through poetry. She has been selected for the New Poets Collective (2025-27) – a development programme facilitated by the Southbank Centre. Her micro-literature piece Dienw won the inaugural Tudalen competition, published on Ambobdim in partnership with the National Library of Wales. She has recently joined the 2026/2027 Representing Wales cohort. Your browser does not support the audio element. Read More… These Pages Sing – Renewal (Spring) 2026 Renewal (Spring) 2026 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Read More