Circle Meeting Guest Speaker Bethany Handley
Bethany Handley is an award-winning author, poet and disability activist from Monmouth. Named one of the UK’s 10 most influential disabled people in politics, law, and media by the Shaw Trust 2024, she campaigns for access to nature. An Ambassador for Ramblers Cymru, Bethany also sits on the Lived Experience Advisory Board for ParalympicsGB.
She co-edited Beyond / Tu Hwnt (Lucent Dreaming, 2025), a bilingual anthology of Welsh Deaf and disabled writers, which has been shortlisted in the British Book Awards 2026. Her poetry pamphlet Cling Film was published by Seren in 2025, and her work has been featured by BBC One, BBC Radio 4, Country Living, The Guardian, the Forward Book of Poetry 2026, and more. My Body is a Meadow: Finding Freedom in the Outdoors, her debut non-fiction book, was published by Headline on 7th May.
The meeting takes place on Wednesday 9 December 2026 at the Taliesin Arts Centre (downstairs from the main auditorium), Swansea University Singleton Campus, Swansea SA2 8QD. There will also be a zoom link for those who can’t attend in person.
Everyone is welcome.
If you would like to join the meeting as a guest, please Contact the Secretary.