Celebrating under-represented writers
New Welsh magazine dedicated to providing a platform for under-represented and unpublished writers.
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Very happy to have a story in the forthcoming issue of These Pages Sing! I wrote Foxglove about ten years ago and it's gone through multiple edits and titles. Not quite a ship of Theseus story, but almost! Just goes to show it's worth persevering, worth revising and resubmitting over and over again. Eventually your piece will find the right place, and in this instance it's most fitting that the issue is called Renewal πβΊοΈ
A colony of violets, so vivid they don't quite seem real. Walking in between writing sessions helps settle my thoughts, and often shows me the way to the next part of the story
We're extending our submission period until 12th April so if you haven't already sent us something, now is the time!
I've always been curious about this side of the submission process so I thought I'd share our journey as a new magazine as we go along. The highest number of subs so far is poetry, followed by short stories, non-fiction, then Cymraeg, so we'd particularly like to read more of the latter two categories.
Although we close general submissions at midnight tonight, we may stay open for another week for certain categories if we don't get enough. We've had a lot of poetry submissions in English, and a few short stories. We would really like to see more Cymraeg in all categories, and more non-fiction and flash fiction in English.
My mum found this strange little figure formed from (I think) ivy. I'm calling them Iorwg, and they are the ideal entity to introduce issue 4 of Folding Rock, in which I have a review essay discussing how three different authors tackle the fourth branch of the Mabinogion. 'The Owl Service' by Alan Garner. 'The Meat Tree' by Gwyneth Lewis. 'The Bloody Branch' by Brigid Lowe. It's also packed full of beautifully written stories and essays, a fascinating conversation with Tom Bullough, and the photography of @abpoulson@valeria.mongelli and @j_m_russell
This magazine just gets better and better!
