New Welsh Review

For over 30 years, New Welsh Review Ltd has been central to the Welsh literary scene in offering a vital outlet for the very best new fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry, a forum for critical debate and a rigorous and engaged reviewing culture.

We have published some of the greatest writers and thinkers from Wales and beyond; Dannie Abse, Paul Muldoon, P.D. James, Emyr Humphreys, Leslie Norris, Gwyneth Lewis, Les Murray, Rachel Trezise, Niall Griffiths, Owen Sheers, Tiffany Murray, Edna Longley, Byron Rogers and Gillian Clarke. In summer 2015 we rebranded the creative magazine as New Welsh Reader, to combine the appeal of the new while maintaining our traditions and track record.

We now have a fully searchable archive available, which goes back to 2000.

Female-led literature with an emphasis on place, nature and authenticity in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, ideas for our times in the literary essay, and illustrative panache overall.

Originating in Wales and with international ambition. Here we bring together the best of NWR’s online essays and review-essays within a showcase of new work previewing forthcoming titles from some of this country’s key English-language publishers. There’s new work on the Slovak and the migrant experience, with a rural modern fairytale by Slovak author Dominika Moravčíková (in translation by Isabel Stainsby), a family memoir by Armenia-born Naneh Hovhannisyan, and a story from Cardiff dockland by Jewish writer and lawyer, Sarah Lerner. Plus Eric Gregory awardwinner Rhiannon Hooson on her nonfiction work-in-progress, Tilth. And mining-themed work, with drawings of the Rhondda by Isabel Alexander, and Ryota Nishi on Japan’s pit closure protest movement.