Sod dry January. Finally finding a quiet moment to celebrate my new hardback copy of #TheLibrarySuicides, which publishes in 18 days Hodder Fiction. A dream. Thanks to everyone who got me here. My fab and very patient agent Euan Thorneycroft & wonderful editor Beth Wickington 🎉🥂

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On the picket line this morning, fighting for fairer pay and conditions. Grateful for brilliant colleagues ⁦SwanseaU English Lit & CW⁩ ⁦UCU⁩ #ucurising ⁦Swansea University UCU⁩

Gwrandewch eto ar raglen Dei Tomos Radio Cymru i glywed ein hawdur, M. Wynn Thomas, yn cyflwyno rhai o'r cerddi o ei gyfrol bendigedig, ‘A Map of Love’. (1:05:13 munud) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Mae'r gyfrol ar gael am £9.99 yn eich siop lyfrau leol!

"Winning has given me ‘permission’ to talk about my writing and allowed me to feel it’s worth sticking with." There's a great interview with our 2022 Rhys Davies Short Story award winner Laura Morris on the SwanseaReviewOnline blog. Check it out! theswanseareview.my.canva.site

Earlier this year, former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, spoke of poetry as spiritual practice, with Swansea University's Professor M. Wynn Thomas. Watch this fascinating lecture on 'Slowing the Metabolism of Language', here: youtu.be/uxavASXFfRkr

A wonderful evening with RSAW at Welsh School of Architecture celebrating the publication of ‘Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance’ by Jonathan Adams! Diolch yn fawr to M Wynn Thomas for interviewing, Gillian Clarke for the beautiful reading of ‘Taliesin’ and to all who attended!

A fantastic session this afternoon exploring the history of the English language using 16th century deeds, 17th century wills and a 19th century love letter! Great to welcome @FilmNFeminism SwanseaU English Lit & CW

Plotting and scheming for a wall-length bookcase. How should I arrange my books?

It's Ruby time! Our favourite 1920s Swansea University student, Ruby Graham (nee Joseph) loved the theatre! Here she is (right) at the height of #ArchiveFashion and donning a variety of costumes ARA Scotland #Archive30

✨📕Tuesday 25 April 7pm📕✨ #TheHalfways: British Bangladeshi author Nilopar Uddin in conversation with Swansea University alumna Dr Kamand Kojouri. ‘Uddin’s writing is entrancing [...] she has quite genuinely taken my breath away!’ Book your FREE tickets🎟️: bit.ly/thehalfways

✨📕Tuesday 25 April 7pm📕✨ #TheHalfways is an epic family drama that moves between London, Wales, New York & Bangladesh, exploring belonging, family & what makes forgiveness and redemption possible ‘Moving and unforgettable’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ FREE TICKETS ➡️ bit.ly/thehalfways

🎉 Registration is now open 🎉 Join us on 16th May 2023 for the 19th Annual Postgraduate Symposium at @EnglishWarwick. We have online and in-person tickets available via our Eventbrite below 👇 bit.ly/3ocDYyM

Me talking about medieval (anti) beauty, available now on BBC Sounds! BBC Radio Wales - The Idea, Series 5, All Things Beautiful ⁦⁦BBC Radio Wales⁩ ⁦Catrin Nye⁩ ⁦⁦Swansea University⁩ ⁦SwanseaU English Lit & CW⁩ #medieval #beauty #medievalwomen bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

This is going to be such a special event next Tuesday 25/4. #Swansea friends, please do come if you can. Free and open to all. Info below ⬇️😍📚📚📚 Swansea University SwanseaU English Lit & CW Waterstones Swansea @SwanseaWriters Swansea Libraries Nilopar Uddin Dr Kamand Kojouri

How books by women were introduced in 1974.

Gripping! - a wonderful hour of readings and insight into the creation of 'Crow Face, Doll Face' (Gwasg Honno Press) - the latest brooding offering from acclaimed Pembrokeshire-based writer, Carly Holmes.

First new English translation of Kafka's diaries since the 1940s, restoring the unexpurgated text. Was there a modernist more obsessed with #sleep? Five hours was 'an extraordinary achievement' but any 'happiness was my unhappiness' as 'the gods of revenge came crashing down'.

Am brofiad! 1st time inside former Merthyr Synagogue after 1st visiting the outside of the building almost 15 years ago. Never did I think back then the building would be saved with plans to become a Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre! Thanks Foundation for Jewish Heritage for a fantastic open day!

Wythnos o ddathlu ein graddedigion. Braf bod gyda’r adran (SwanseaU English Lit & CW) ddoe, a bod yn bresennol ar gyfer anrhydeddu un o fawrion cyfoes Cwm Tawe huw chiswell gyda Gwenno Ffrancon heddiw. Llongyfarchiadau i raddedigion Prifysgol Abertawe!