A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk1 session generally takes place on the first Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the Membership […]
Laura Roklicer is a writer and psychologist working with dreams for creative purposes. She leads dream groups and workshops with writers, having developed a new model for creative writing that utilises liminal, lucid, and non-lucid dreams – The Dream-Inspired Model of Creative Writing (DICW). As a professional screenwriter, Laura has integrated dreams into her own […]
A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk3 session generally takes place on the third Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the […]
A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk1 session generally takes place on the first Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the Membership […]
Our August meeting will be a social event for members with script presentations. The meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday 13 August 2025. The meeting venue is the Taliesin Arts Centre (downstairs from the main auditorium), Swansea University Singleton Campus, Swansea SA2 8QD.
A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk3 session generally takes place on the third Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the […]
A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk1 session generally takes place on the first Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the Membership […]
Emily Cotterill is a Cardiff-based poet from Alfreton, Derbyshire. Her debut pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants was published by smith|doorstop in 2019. The pamphlet was a part of Carol Ann Duffy’s final Laureate’s Choice selection. It has been variously described as, ‘neo-punk’, ‘Northern soul’ and ‘fizzingly acute’. Her poetry has appeared in a […]
A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk3 session generally takes place on the third Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the Membership […]
A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk1 session generally takes place on the first Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the Membership […]
Dawn Llewellyn-Price is a writer living in the Maritime Quarter of Swansea who spends half the year in the south of Spain. Both these environments are culturally rich, providing a wealth of experiences and endless ideas that eventually work their way down her fingertips onto her keyboard. She has been a columnist for newspapers and […]
A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk3 session generally takes place on the third Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the Membership […]
A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk1 session generally takes place on the first Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the Membership […]
Gail Williams specialises in complex, fast-paced crime novels. Her works include the recently expanded Locked Trilogy, The Elaine Blake Novels and the stand alone, The Chair. She was shortlisted for the 2014 CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition with the story Last Shakes, now available in Last Cut Casebook. Gail is a member of the Crime Writers […]
A regular meeting where members share feedback on each other’s writing. There are two Feedback meetings a month. The Feedback Wk3 session generally takes place on the third Thursday of the month. Feedback meetings are for members only, but we warmly welcome newcomers to the Circle. If you would like to join, please contact the Membership […]
Nigel Jarrett is a Welsh writer, a former daily-newspaperman, and a double prizewinner: the Rhys Davies award for short fiction and the inaugural Templar Shorts award. His first collection of stories, Funderland, was published by Parthian and warmly reviewed in the Independent, the Guardian, the Times, and elsewhere; it was also long-listed for the Edge […]
The Swansea & District Writers Circle annual general meeting takes place on Wednesday 14 January 2026. As well as discussing the business of the Circle and electing the committee, the Annual General Meeting is a social event where members read some of their work. This year, Circle member Martin Williams is to perform some songs […]
B.A. Pepper is a Welsh Romantasy obsessed reader turned author. She has been writing fantasy stories (aka LOTR fanfic) for as long as she can remember but didn’t start taking creative writing seriously until she came to study for her Bachelor of Arts at Swansea University. After graduating she then stopped writing and reading altogether […]
Dr Alan Sandry is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Strategy at School of Management, Swansea University. He previously lectured at Cardiff; Cardiff Met; and Regents (London) universities. He is the editor of Wittgenstein in Swansea: Philosophy and Legacy (University of Wales Press, 2025). His play From Linz to Langland - A Journey with Ludwig Wittgenstein was published by Cambria Publishing in 2024. […]
Patrick Jones (born 1965) is a Welsh poet, playwright. Born in Tredegar in 1965, Patrick Jones was educated at Oakdale Comprehensive, Crosskeys College (a campus of Coleg Gwent), and then at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1983 to 1987. He was awarded Bsc. (Hons) in Sociology and American Studies. Jones has been employed in […]
Jose H Cifuentes was an educational psychologist with the Swansea Education Department for many years. Before that he was forced to leave his home country Chile while a young man in his 20s. In Chile he was moved by his Christian faith to go and live in a shantytown while still a university student during […]
Welsh poet and dramatist Peter Thabit Jones has authored eighteen books, including the Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village New York with Aeronwy Thomas. He and Aeronwy Thomas did a six weeks poetry reading tour across America in 2008. He has participated in festivals and conferences in America and Europe and has been an annual writer-in-residence […]
Julie Ann Rees holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University and an MA from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is a single mother to a talented adult daughter and, when not reading or writing, enjoys spending time with her fluffy grey cat, Griffin. She can often be found walking in […]
The August 2026 Circle meeting will be a social evening for members with an open mic session where members can read some of their work. Meeting details: The meeting takes place on Wednesday 12 August 2026 at the Taliesin Arts Centre (downstairs from the main auditorium), Swansea University Singleton Campus, Swansea SA2 8QD. There will […]
