Christopher Meredith has produced fiction, poetry and translations, as well as a little writing for radio and the stage, and articles and reviews, stories and verse for many magazines including […]
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The Swansea & District Writers Circle annual dinner and awards event took place on 17 January at The Welsh House restaurant in SA1, Swansea. There was an excellent turn out
The Swansea & District Writers Circle annual general meeting took place on Wednesday 8 January 2025. As well as discussing the business of the Circle and electing the committee, the
Owen Staton is a Performer, Director and Storyteller from Port Talbot who has travelled the world telling old Welsh myths and Ghost stories. He is the host of the Time between
Originally from Paris, Sophie Buchaillard is a writer, educator, campaigner, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her short stories, poetry and essays have appeared in a wide
We are delighted to announce the winners as well as the shortlisted and longlisted entries to our 2024 International Writing Competition, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Swansea &
Jamie D. Stacey lives in Swansea. His flash fiction and short stories have been published in more than a dozen anthologies. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, won the Worcestershire
Helga Jensen is an award-winning Welsh/Danish best-selling author and journalist. Her debut novel was a winning entry in the 2017 Montegrappa First Fiction competition at Dubai’s Emirates Literary Festival. Her
The Circle meeting in August was an open mic session for members who read out some of their work. The evening was a great success and photos will be posted
Swansea and District Writers Circle is 70 years old this year, and one of the events to celebrate was a Book Fair in October during the weekend of 5th and
Alan Bilton is the author of four novels, The Sleepwalkers’ Ball, The Known and Unknown Sea, The End of The Yellow House, and At Dawn, Two Nightingales, as well as
Rebecca Lowe is a Pushcart-prize nominated writer, editor and journalist, based in Swansea, UK. She is a Bread and Roses Spoken Word Award winner, and has appeared on BBC Radio
Gwen Davies grew up in a Welsh-speaking family in West Yorkshire. Her translations are the novels Martha, Jack and Shanco (Caryl Lewis, Parthian) and The Jeweller (Caryl Lewis). She is
Jim Loft gave a talk to the group about the U3A and the U3A poetry group, while our Chair Alana Davies gave a short talk about her novel. The talks
Ruth Mancini was born in South-West London and started her career as a marketing executive for a publisher before undertaking a post-graduate diploma in law and retraining as a solicitor.
Guinevere Clark is a poet originally from Grimsby, UK. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University (2023), where she formed three poetry collections and an extensive analysis.
Ann Marie Thomas has stepped back after serving for several years as Chair of the Swansea & District Writers Circle. She steered the group calmly through some challenging times, including
Swansea and District Writers Circle was recently featured in Writing Magazine. The small article appeared in the Community section of the January 2024 edition. It has already created quite a
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Sad to say, a former Circle member, Coral Leend died on 30th November. As well as novels, she had a huge number of short stories published and was Circle secretary
The Swansea & District Writers Circle annual general meeting took place at 7pm on Wednesday 3 January 2024. As well as discussing the business of the Circle and electing the
