Rhys Owain Williams
@rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social
Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
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Love seeing your poetry prints framed and up on walls! They’re still on sale here if you want one (or just send me a DM): ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
Love seeing your poetry prints framed and up on walls! They’re still on sale here if you want one (or just send me a DM): ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
February 10, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Love seeing your poetry prints framed and up on walls! They’re still on sale here if you want one (or just send me a DM): ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
Here are the books I read during previous Christmases. Anyone read any? Think my favourite is ‘The Morgan Trust’ by Richard Bridgeman – I still think about that story a lot whenever I’m driving around the Upper Swansea Valley and beyond.
December 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Here are the books I read during previous Christmases. Anyone read any? Think my favourite is ‘The Morgan Trust’ by Richard Bridgeman – I still think about that story a lot whenever I’m driving around the Upper Swansea Valley and beyond.
This year’s Ghost Story for Christmas. Another solid short story from the series, though I don’t love that Penguin have taken over from Biblioasis and made the quality of the materials used to make these stocking-filler books worse.
December 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This year’s Ghost Story for Christmas. Another solid short story from the series, though I don’t love that Penguin have taken over from Biblioasis and made the quality of the materials used to make these stocking-filler books worse.
Saying bonne nuit in Swansea:
December 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Saying bonne nuit in Swansea:
If you’re looking for a last-minute poetry gift, today’s the last day to order in time for Christmas delivery! 🎅📦
25% off with discount code ISAWONESHIP
25% off with discount code ISAWONESHIP
🎅 Looking for a gift for the poetry reader in your life? 📚
Everything in my Ko-fi shop is 25% off until 25th December when you use discount code ISAWONESHIP ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
Books can be sent signed or unsigned, and if you let me know the person's name I'll write a dedication to them ✍️
Everything in my Ko-fi shop is 25% off until 25th December when you use discount code ISAWONESHIP ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
Books can be sent signed or unsigned, and if you let me know the person's name I'll write a dedication to them ✍️
December 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
If you’re looking for a last-minute poetry gift, today’s the last day to order in time for Christmas delivery! 🎅📦
25% off with discount code ISAWONESHIP
25% off with discount code ISAWONESHIP
I’m desperately searching my shelves for the slimmest books possible to get closer to my 30-book reading goal for this year. Currently on 10…
December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I’m desperately searching my shelves for the slimmest books possible to get closer to my 30-book reading goal for this year. Currently on 10…
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Another month, another #Substack post. There's some helpful articles linked here about existing online as a #writer (or anyone trying to 'build a brand.')
open.substack.com/pub/marielli...
#Rest #Christmas #AmReading #AmWriting #BookSky #WritingSky
open.substack.com/pub/marielli...
#Rest #Christmas #AmReading #AmWriting #BookSky #WritingSky
December 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Another month, another #Substack post. There's some helpful articles linked here about existing online as a #writer (or anyone trying to 'build a brand.')
open.substack.com/pub/marielli...
#Rest #Christmas #AmReading #AmWriting #BookSky #WritingSky
open.substack.com/pub/marielli...
#Rest #Christmas #AmReading #AmWriting #BookSky #WritingSky
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Issue 71 features poems from Yan Zhang, Maryam Ghafoor, @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social, E. M. Palitha Edirisooriya (translated by samodH Porawagamage & Kasun Pathirage), Drew McEwan, and Nicole Boyce. You can read their work at ex-puritan.ca/issue-71-fal...
Issue 71: Fall 2025
Issue 71: Fall 2025 has arrived! This edition features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction representing the best new and established Canadian writing.
ex-puritan.ca
December 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Issue 71 features poems from Yan Zhang, Maryam Ghafoor, @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social, E. M. Palitha Edirisooriya (translated by samodH Porawagamage & Kasun Pathirage), Drew McEwan, and Nicole Boyce. You can read their work at ex-puritan.ca/issue-71-fal...
🎅 Looking for a gift for the poetry reader in your life? 📚
Everything in my Ko-fi shop is 25% off until 25th December when you use discount code ISAWONESHIP ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
Books can be sent signed or unsigned, and if you let me know the person's name I'll write a dedication to them ✍️
Everything in my Ko-fi shop is 25% off until 25th December when you use discount code ISAWONESHIP ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
Books can be sent signed or unsigned, and if you let me know the person's name I'll write a dedication to them ✍️
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🎅 Looking for a gift for the poetry reader in your life? 📚
Everything in my Ko-fi shop is 25% off until 25th December when you use discount code ISAWONESHIP ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
Books can be sent signed or unsigned, and if you let me know the person's name I'll write a dedication to them ✍️
Everything in my Ko-fi shop is 25% off until 25th December when you use discount code ISAWONESHIP ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
Books can be sent signed or unsigned, and if you let me know the person's name I'll write a dedication to them ✍️
For anyone out there who’s still holding on to autumn despite the encroachment of our winter celebrations, I’ve got a new poem published in @ex-puritan.bsky.social’s Fall Issue. Diolch to editor Sanna Wani for choosing it! ex-puritan.ca/autumn-as-a-...
Autumn as a Lo-Fi YouTube Video
Read Rhys Owain Williams's poem "Autumn as a Lo-Fi YouTube Video" in Issue 71: Fall 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
ex-puritan.ca
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
For anyone out there who’s still holding on to autumn despite the encroachment of our winter celebrations, I’ve got a new poem published in @ex-puritan.bsky.social’s Fall Issue. Diolch to editor Sanna Wani for choosing it! ex-puritan.ca/autumn-as-a-...
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We’re excited to release Issue 71: Fall 2025! Get cozy with vibrant new fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews, along with the winning pieces of the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence:
Issue 71: Fall 2025
Issue 71: Fall 2025 has arrived! This edition features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction representing the best new and established Canadian writing.
ex-puritan.ca
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We’re excited to release Issue 71: Fall 2025! Get cozy with vibrant new fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews, along with the winning pieces of the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence:
Thanks Claire! Definitely one of my weirder poems haha
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Thanks Claire! Definitely one of my weirder poems haha
Thanks Mari! 💼🔪
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Thanks Mari! 💼🔪
Hoping to be able to share some exciting book news in the New Year. Until then I’m still flogging the first collection, and I’ve also added this brand new digital art print featuring the title poem (made by me, no AI) to my Ko-fi shop. UK & international postage available. ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hoping to be able to share some exciting book news in the New Year. Until then I’m still flogging the first collection, and I’ve also added this brand new digital art print featuring the title poem (made by me, no AI) to my Ko-fi shop. UK & international postage available. ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil...
As you can probably tell from the explanation above, it's a bit niche! But it turned out to be a good fit for Vernacular, who have a submission request of 'the weirder the better.' Cheers to their editors for choosing it!
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
As you can probably tell from the explanation above, it's a bit niche! But it turned out to be a good fit for Vernacular, who have a submission request of 'the weirder the better.' Cheers to their editors for choosing it!
I’ve got a poem in Vernacular’s latest issue: a slasher-inspired prose poem featuring characters from Coronation Street – part of a sequence of poems I'm writing about depictions of stepfathers in fiction. vernacularjournal.com/Richard-Hillman-Drives-Gail-Sarah-Louise-David-and-Little-Baby
Richard Hillman Drives Gail, Sarah-Louise, David and Little Baby Bethany into the Weatherfield Canal — Vernacular Journal
Richard Hillman Drives Gail, Sarah-Louise, David and Little Baby Bethany into the Weatherfield Canal Rhys Owain Williams It’s almost 9pm on a Wednesday...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’ve got a poem in Vernacular’s latest issue: a slasher-inspired prose poem featuring characters from Coronation Street – part of a sequence of poems I'm writing about depictions of stepfathers in fiction. vernacularjournal.com/Richard-Hillman-Drives-Gail-Sarah-Louise-David-and-Little-Baby
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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
Lore update: my 3-year-old says Garfield doesn’t love lasagne he loves sushi. It makes more sense I suppose.
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Lore update: my 3-year-old says Garfield doesn’t love lasagne he loves sushi. It makes more sense I suppose.
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A little extract of Wild Running in The Independent this morning, exploring Pen Y Fan and focusing on women's safety in running 🏃♀️ @serenbooks.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/w...
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/w...
Wild running gives me freedom, but I’m always looking over my shoulder
In this abridged extract from award-winning poet and writer Natalie Holborow’s new book ‘Wild Running’, she follows a trail around the Brecon Beacons in South Wales while reflecting on women’s safety
www.independent.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A little extract of Wild Running in The Independent this morning, exploring Pen Y Fan and focusing on women's safety in running 🏃♀️ @serenbooks.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/w...
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/w...
Couple of short writing sessions yesterday and today. The middle of the poem as it stands is a complete mess, as I try my best to rework existing lines that I'm fond of but now no longer fit. Need to chuck all the square pegs out at this point I think, understand I'm now working with round holes.
September 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Couple of short writing sessions yesterday and today. The middle of the poem as it stands is a complete mess, as I try my best to rework existing lines that I'm fond of but now no longer fit. Need to chuck all the square pegs out at this point I think, understand I'm now working with round holes.
Back on it today though, pulling it apart and trying to put it back together again with minimal rewriting. It's not looking very healthy at the moment. Every reworked line is weaker. My love of the sestina form is weakening too. Might just go binge watch The Osbournes and eat knockoff Oreos instead.
September 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Back on it today though, pulling it apart and trying to put it back together again with minimal rewriting. It's not looking very healthy at the moment. Every reworked line is weaker. My love of the sestina form is weakening too. Might just go binge watch The Osbournes and eat knockoff Oreos instead.
Might not surprise you to learn that they were premature celebrations. Reading over that first draft on Saturday evening, I realised I'd put some end words in the wrong places, knocking the whole poem out. Haven't been able to think about it since, let alone work on it haha.
September 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Might not surprise you to learn that they were premature celebrations. Reading over that first draft on Saturday evening, I realised I'd put some end words in the wrong places, knocking the whole poem out. Haven't been able to think about it since, let alone work on it haha.
Best stairwell in Wales (if there is such a thing)
August 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Best stairwell in Wales (if there is such a thing)
Not always productive of course, but I usually at least get *something* down on the page that I can later use/edit/rewrite/turn into something else. This morning it’s a completed first draft of this sestina. Now to celebrate with a turn around the shelves of the Waterstones around the corner!
August 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Not always productive of course, but I usually at least get *something* down on the page that I can later use/edit/rewrite/turn into something else. This morning it’s a completed first draft of this sestina. Now to celebrate with a turn around the shelves of the Waterstones around the corner!
Every Saturday morning I go to a coffee shop between 7am–9am and just write. Started at the beginning of this year and it’s been the best thing I’ve done to cultivate the writing routine that I’ve never had but always wanted. Even if I don’t write during the week I have these 2 hours as a baseline.
August 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Every Saturday morning I go to a coffee shop between 7am–9am and just write. Started at the beginning of this year and it’s been the best thing I’ve done to cultivate the writing routine that I’ve never had but always wanted. Even if I don’t write during the week I have these 2 hours as a baseline.