Category Archives: Prose

Shortlisted for Write By The Sea Competition

August 30, 2019Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Proseangela

I’m delighted that my short story ‘The Bangle’ is on the shortlist for the Write By The Sea Festival Competition.

I had three stories shortlisted for this last year. I messed up the payment process and ended up with 3 entries. The administrator for the Festival was impressively patient with my ham-fistedness and when I saw that all three stories had made the shortlist I was initially convinced that it was because I had somehow made another mistake!

As I like the sea theme, and since the Festival seems to be such a properly human enterprise, making allowances for the likes of hames-makers such as mysef, I wrote one for this year’s round. Hence my especial delight at making the shortlist again.

I very much enjoyed writing the story.

The Festival programme looks really good, with writers such as Paula Meehan, Kit de Waal and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.

https://writebythesea.ie/programme-2019/

A Welsh Novelist of Northern Ireland

March 17, 2019Blog, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Proseangela

March 18th 2019 is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Welsh novelist, Menna Gallie. She wrote one of the very first novels to engage with the Troubles: You’re Welcome To Ulster.

Set in 1969, it was published by Victor Gollancz in 1970. It is a fascinating double perspective on political agitation in both Wales and Northern Ireland written by a Welsh-speaker who had swiftly got under the skin of Northern Irish society.

Honno Press has re-issued four of Gallie’s novels and this month there is a 25% reduction on their price , using the code mg100.

Continue reading A Welsh Novelist of Northern Ireland →

One of ‘100 Women of Wales on Twitter 2019’

March 8, 2019Online, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Proseangela

What a great list in which to be included on International Women’s Day. Am I following them all? Let’s see.

https://www.walesartsreview.org/iwd2019-100-women-of-wales-on-twitter/

Article in ‘The Lonely Crowd’

December 5, 2018Blog, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Proseangela

Writing ‘Above It All’

My piece on the genesis of a short story in ‘The Lonely Crowd’.

photo by Jo Mazelis

Pushcart Prize Nomination

December 5, 2018Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Proseangela

My story, ‘All Through The Night’ has been nominated by its publisher, Crannóg for the Pushcart Prize, ‘the most honoured literary project in America’.

The story is available to read here.

It was completed during the period of my Literature Wales Bursary 2017. It is part of my unpublished collection, ‘A City Burning’ which was edited by Gwen Davies of the New Welsh Review.

Congratulations to my fellow prose nominees, David Butler and Emily Woodworth and to poets, stephanie roberts, Jane Burn and Ruth Thompson.

Short Story in The Lonely Crowd

October 24, 2018Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Proseangela

‘Above It All’, my short story set in the Vatican appears in Issue 10 of

The Lonely Crowd

Crannog 49 Short Story

October 22, 2018Author, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Proseangela

Cover art: Telling Lies by Ann-Marie Browne

My Short Story All Through The Night, set on the coast of west Wales is in this edition.

Golwg – ‘Helyntion Y Cymry’ a’r Comisiwn dros Ddioddefwyr a Goroeswyr

October 11, 2018Blog, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, PortfolioRadio, Print, Prose, Radioangela

Mae’n bywsig bod llais y Cymry a gafodd y profiad o fyw drwy’r Helyntion yng Ngogledd Iwerddon yn rhan o’r drafodaeth ynglyn â phroblemau yn y dyfodol.