Calling all writers! New Welsh Review editor Gwen Davies is seeking the very best new prose with a Welsh theme or setting in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2021, a writing competition now entering its seventh successful year with a top prize of £1,000.
This year, the Awards champion works of 5,000 – 30,000 words in one category, the Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting, which was made possible thanks to the generous support of long-term subscriber Richard Powell.
The prize is for writers from the UK and Ireland as well as those who have been educated in Wales for over six months.
For the first time this year Gwen Davies will also consider one entry by a writer aged 18 – 25 for publication by New Welsh Review in print or online.
As well as a cash prize of £1,000 as an advance against an e-publishing deal, the winning writer will also receive a positive critique from stellar literary agent Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown Literary Agency in London.
Second prize is a four-night stay at Nant writers’ retreat cottage within the grounds of Literature Wales’ Ty Newydd Writing Centre in Gwynedd, and third prize is a two-night stay at Gladstone’s Library in Flintshire, north Wales.
The three shortlisted and three highly commended authors will also receive a one-year subscription to New Welsh Review. In addition, New Welsh Review will publish extracts of the highly commended and shortlisted nominees for publication in the autumn and winter 2021 editions of its creative magazine New Welsh Reader with an associated fee.
Terms, conditions and the entry form can be found on our new website
Closing Date: 16 March 2021
The New Welsh Writing Awards 2021 are sponsored by Richard Powell. The Awards are run in partnership with Curtis Brown Literary Agency, Gladstone’s Library and Literature Wales. New Welsh Review is supported through core funding by the Books Council of Wales and the magazine is hosted by Aberystwyth University.