Aaron Kent is a working-class writer and insomniac from Cornwall. Aaron’s work has been praised by the likes of JH Prynne, Gillian Clarke, Andre Bagoo, Andrew McMillan, and Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo. His new book, The Working Classic, will be released with the87press in December 2023 and concerns how working-class voices are ignored unless those voices are an…
Cath Barton (she/her) is an English writer who has lived in Abergavenny since 2005. Cath won the New Welsh Writing AmeriCymru Prize for the Novella 2017 for The Plankton Collector, which was published by New Welsh Review in 2018. Subsequent publications of novellas are In the Sweep of the Bay (2020, Louise Walters Books) shortlisted…
Alun Gibbard has been writing for a living for the last 14 years. He’s published 36 books, in Welsh and English. These are predominantly non-fiction, including some co-written life stories of Welsh people prominent in sport, music, broadcasting, politics and acting, as well as books on aspects of social and political history. He’s published one…
Christopher Meredith is an award-winning novelist, poet and translator. He is Chair of the Society of Authors in Wales. His debut novel, Shifts, is regarded as a Welsh modern classic, topping the English language selection of Wales Arts Review’s ‘Greatest Welsh Novel of All Time’, and coming second to the overall winner Un Nos Ola Leuad by Caradog Prichard….
Philip Gross has published some twenty collections of poetry, including A Bright Acoustic (Bloodaxe, 2017), winning the T.S.Eliot Prize in 2009, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2017. From 2004 to 2017 he was Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. He is a keen collaborator – with artist Valerie Coffin Price on A Fold In The River (Seren, 2015)…
Helen Docherty is an internationally published author of rhyming picture books. Her stories have been translated into 27 languages, adapted for the stage and set to music. The Snatchabook and The Knight Who Wouldn’t Fight, both illustrated by Thomas Docherty, have won awards voted for by school children and been shortlisted for various national book…
Francesca leads on our community development and outreach programmes, which aim to engage and empower authors, poets, screenwriters, translators and illustrators, at all stages of their careers, throughout the UK. She is the coordinator for the SoAiW.
