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Swansea, Wales
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Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
🎉 We’re delighted to announce that the winner 🏆 of the 2025 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition is Keza O'Neill for 'The Man on the Train' - a tale of one man's homecoming and his wrestle with internal thought processes punctuated by childhood memories.
bit.ly/KezaONeill
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
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🎉 We’re delighted to announce that the winner 🏆 of the 2025 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition is Keza O'Neill for 'The Man on the Train' - a tale of one man's homecoming and his wrestle with internal thought processes punctuated by childhood memories.
bit.ly/KezaONeill
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
🗣️Here's what this year's winner of the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition, Keza O'Neill, had to say about winning this prestigious competition. 🏆✍️📚
bit.ly/KezaONeill
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
📚 'Sut i gael eich cyhoeddi': Kate Mosse mewn sgwrs gydag Elaine Canning
🗓️ 2 Hydref | 18:00-19:00
📍 Urban HQ, 37 Stryd y Berllan, Abertawe SA1 5AJ
🎟️ TOCYNNAU: bit.ly/katemosseswansea
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
This is going to be a fantastic event! Do get to Swansea for it if you can!
📚 'How to get published' with Kate Mosse (@WomensPrize) In conversation with Elaine Canning (@elaine_canning @dylanthomprize)
🗓️ 2 October | 18:00-19:00
📍 Urban HQ, 37 Orchard Street, Swansea SA1 5AJ
🎟️ TICKETS: bit.ly/katemosseswansea
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
📢 FREE
📚'Wittgenstein in Swansea': Philosophy and Legacy
🗓️ 8 October | 15:00-16:00
📍 Tabernacle URC Church, Newton Road, Mumbles SA3 4AR
🎟️ BOOK NOW: bit.ly/wittgensteinswansea
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
🎉 We are thrilled to announce that multi-award-winning author and founder director of the @WomensPrize Kate Mosse, will be at the FREE Children's and Young People's Literature Festival at Swansea's National Waterfront Museum in October! 📚
🔗 bit.ly/CYPLitFest25
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
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The Children's & Young People's Literature Festival is returning to Swansea this October!
More details announced next week!
✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨
“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.” – Raymond Chandler
Not recommended for every story, however It would make every story more interesting.
#amwriting #WritingCommunity @elaine_canning @Culture_SwanUni @dylanthomprize
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." - George. R. R. Martin
If you could live any character's life, who would you choose?
#amwriting #WritingCommunity @elaine_canning @Culture_SwanUni @dylanthomprize
✨Wisdom Wednesdays✨
“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.” – Mary Higgins Clark
It's cheaper than therapy. We've all done it... right?
#amwriting #WritingCommunity @elaine_canning @Culture_SwanUni @dylanthomprize
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
Love these peeps🥰
This week's wordsmith is the talented Luke Blake. With unflinching poetry and haunting short fiction, this writer is fresh talent you don't want to miss! Grab our Spring 2025 Issue now!
#welshlitmag #Welshmagazine #submissionsopen #shortfiction #literarymagazinesthatpay
✨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 @Culture_SwanUni @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 @Culture_SwanUni @dylanthomprize
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"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 @Culture_SwanUni @dylanthomprize
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
Dylan Thomas looks on at the latest winner of the prize that bears his name. Congratulations Yasmin Zaher! 📙🏆 #SUDTP25
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
This very special evening, introduced by Prize Director @elaine_canning, celebrates the 2025 @SwanseaUniversity @dylanthomasprize shortlist - including @Seanhewitt (Rapture's Road), Ferdia Lennon (Glorious Exploits), @rebeccawhatsun (I Will Crash), Eley Williams (Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good), Yael van der Wouden (The Safekeep) & Yasmin Zaher (The Coin) #SUDTP25
✨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 @Culture_SwanUni @dylanthomprize
✨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 @Culture_SwanUni @dylanthomprize
Creative Writing at Swansea University retweeted
We are thrilled that our prize patron, the wonderful, and great @michaelsheen, will help us celebrate 20 years of the prize and this year's incredible shortlist at the @britishlibrary on 14th May (the night before we crown this year's winner!)
Tickets: bit.ly/SUDTP25BL
