Utopias and dystopias predominate in this selection of novella extracts from Wales. Includes the winners and nominations in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2019 Aberystwyth University Prize for a Dystopian Novella, plus a photo essay by Tim Cooke and Ben Absalom on the Bridgend estate, Wildmill, and a column by editor and translator Gwen Davies on her adaptation of Caryl Lewis' gothic, evocative novel of possession and surrogacy, The Jeweller. With fourteen photographs.
Winners of the Aberystwyth University Prize for a Dystopian Novella:
The Word: JL George
The Significance of Swans: Rhiannon Lewis
Adrift: Rosey Brown
Me, I’m Like Legend, I Am: Dewi Heald
Water, Water, Nowhere: Heledd Williams
The Chosen: Thomas Pitts
Text & Photography:
Views of the Wildmill Estate: Tim Cooke & Ben Absalom
Channelling Marilynne: Translation as Possession, Envy and Belonging: Gwen Davies talks about her new translation of Caryl Lewis’ novel, recently published as The Jeweller