12/11/2023 0 Comments Hay house book writing challenge![]() ![]() Since 2017, she has also worked with online platform, Hansh, and Cwmni Fran Wen theatre company as a freelance creative consultant and writer. Previously she had a column in Welsh language women’s magazine, Cara, in which she wrote about her personal experiences of modern dating. ![]() The book has gained equal amounts of praise and notoriety for its open and frank exploration of growing up, diet culture, social media sex, dating, female friendships and what it means to be a young woman in the 21st century. Part memoir, part social commentary, the collection follows the life of the author as she deals with the trials and tribulations of growing up and navigating her way through the world. She published her popular first book Sgen I’m Syniad: Snogs, Secs, Sens in September 2022 with Y Lolfa. Originally from Pwllheli on the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwenllian Ellis currently lives in Kilburn, London. She writes about identity, movement and migration. Sophie holds an MA in Creative and Critical Writing (Cardiff University, 2021) and is in the later stages of her PhD. She splits her time between writing and teaching creative writing at Cardiff University and in the community and is a Translation Board Member for the refugees and migrants magazine The Other Side of Hope. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Sophie is passionate about empowering others to write. Sophie also contributed to the collections A n Open Door: New Travel Writing for a Precarious Century (Parthian, 2022), and Anthology 1: Together and Apart (Square Wheel Press, 2020). Sophie Buchaillard’s debut novel This Is not who we Are (Seren Books, 2022) was shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award and the Wales Book of the Year 2023. Her short stories and essays have appeared in an array of literary magazines and newspapers, including The ByLine Times, Wales Arts Review, Murmurations Magazine, and Modron Magazine. He is Associate Artist of his hometown theatre The Riverfront in Newport. His debut poetry collections Dominoes (for general audiences) and Miracles (for children) were published in 2023 by Lucent Dreaming. In 2021, he won the Rising Star Wales Award, and was a Jerwood Live Work Fund recipient. His work is heavily inspired by elements of his own life including grief, love, masculinity, identity and ethnicity.Īn actor graduate from University of Wales Trinity Saint David, he wrote and performed in his acclaimed debut show The Making of a Monster at the Wales Millennium Centre in 2022 (playtext published by Aurora Metro Books), which won the 2023 Imison Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. He has written for BBC Wales, BBC Radio 4, Wales Millennium Centre, Sherman Theatre, Dirty Protest, and others, and is a former member of the BBC Wales Welsh Voices and The Welsh Royal Court writing groups. Connor Allen is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and the Children’s Laureate Wales (2021-2023). ![]()
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