📚 THE 2025 SHORTLIST 📚 We are thrilled to unveil the 6 titles that make up this year's stellar Swansea University (Swansea University) Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist! #SUDTP25 Who will be crowned our winner on May 15th? 🏆 PRESS RELEASE 📰 : bit.ly/SUDTPshortlist…

⬇️ 📚📚🎉🎉🎉 Many congratulations to all of these amazing shortlisted writers and their publishers 🎉🎉🎉 #SUDTP25

Congratulations to Rebecca Watson! I Will Crash has been shortlisted for the dylanthomprize 🎉 #SUDTP25

THIS THURSDAY Waterstones Swansea! '𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓' - Anthony Shapland talks about his stunning 'A Room Above a Shop,' with Elaine Canning. Info and Tickets: bit.ly/ashapland

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ "There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story." - Frank Herbert Stories are eternal; characters are immortal. Writers are the key to the everlasting. #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” – Austin Phelps We are not accountants... but we do think this is sound advice. #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ "Maybe it won't be famous. Maybe it won't be a movie. But that's not why I started it. And that's not why I'll finish." - Ryan Reudell We think all writers can relate to this 📖 #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

Wyn Thomas File talks to Dr Elaine Canning youtu.be/fHyoPaHwg7c?si… via YouTube The Wyn Thomas File talks to Dr Elaine Canning about the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize. The Short List, this years author and the Judges Elaine Canning

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” —Groucho Marx Getting your steps in as well as reading. #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ "Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell." - Charles de Lint The world is divinely unique to everyone #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer." -Isaac Asimov Persistence will lead to success. #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

We are thrilled that our prize patron, the wonderful, and great michael sheen 💙, will help us celebrate 20 years of the prize and this year's incredible shortlist at the British Library on 14th May (the night before we crown this year's winner!) Tickets: bit.ly/SUDTP25BL

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ "Write a short story in a week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row." - Ray Bradbury There's surely logical sense to this... Right? 🤔 #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ “Sure, it’s simple, writing for kids… Just as simple as bringing them up.” – Ursula K. LeGuin Sometimes trying to control your characters is like having a unruly children #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

This very special evening, introduced by Prize Director Elaine Canning, celebrates the 2025 @SwanseaUniversity @dylanthomasprize shortlist - including Sean Hewitt (Rapture's Road), Ferdia Lennon (Glorious Exploits), Rebecca Watson (I Will Crash), Eley Williams (Moderate to

Dylan Thomas looks on at the latest winner of the prize that bears his name. Congratulations Yasmin Zaher! 📙🏆 #SUDTP25

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ "There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." - W. Somerset Maugham What are your three rules when writing? #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ “A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay The former is a vulnerable practice, the latter is an illegal one. #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨ "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami Always look for a gem outside of the mainstream. #amwriting #WritingCommunity Elaine Canning Cultural Institute - Swansea University dylanthomprize

Love these peeps🥰