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Rep @PGJpublishing. Erstwhile academic now wa/ondering at large. Botanical gothic novel The Bloody Branch, based on Welsh mythology, forthcoming with Harvill Secker/Vintage January 2026.
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Everything you need to know about blue: Martian sunsets, the dark side of swallows, wasps that scared Darwin, and my dad's eyes. I'm back in print, in the first edition of Wales's new definitive literary magazine.
Become a founder by preordering here: tinyurl.com/FoldingRock001
January 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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FEATURING:
Sophie Mackintosh
Pamela Petro
Rachel Dawson
@joedunthorne.bsky.social
Jay Griffiths
Durre Shahwar
Anthony Shapland
Joshua Jones
Brigid Lowe
@philippablewis.bsky.social
@mayajones.bsky.social
Liberty Smith
Eluned Gramich
Mari Huws Jones
An image of all 14 writers featured in Folding Rock 001. A list of the names of the writers featured in Folding Rock 001.
January 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Folding Rock 001: Roots | 6 March 2025

Cover by @needledesign.bsky.social

Edited by @rjph91.bsky.social and @kathryntann.bsky.social

Pre-Order at tinyurl.com/FoldingRock001
The front cover of Folding Rock 001 against a grey background. The cover features a duotone photograph of a house at an angle, with a group of figures outside holding shovels. Behind them is a bright red background with the title 'ROOTS' across it, and below them is black earth shot through with sand-coloured root systems Another double page spread. The left page has a grainy black and white image of several hands intertwined. The right page has two columns of text.
January 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Ancient 'treasure' found under old RAF Valley runway
www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w...
The artifacts can also be seen on BBC's Digging for Britain: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Ancient 'treasure' found under old RAF Valley runway
The Iron Age artefacts had probably been thrown into an island on an Anglesey lake for a ritual purpose
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January 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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It's fair to say that Thor: Love And Thunder got mixed reviews to say the least, but what did Catrin Lowe make of it, and how exactly did this involve demolishing a plate of walnut brownies??

timworthington.org/2022/09/02/i...
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Thor: Love And Thunder With Catrin Lowe
Catrin Lowe joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Jane Foster putting a new spin on asking your ex for your stuff back in Thor: Love And Thunder.
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December 30, 2023 at 10:16 AM
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Introducing the first four writers for our inaugural issue 🎉 Sophie Mackintosh, @joedunthorne.bsky.social @durreshahwar.bsky.social and Joshua Jones

We can't wait to share what they've written for us with you in March!

Preorder issue 1 foldingrock.com/shop/
Durre Shahwar is a writer and researcher with a PhD in autofiction and Pakistani-Welsh identity from Cardiff University. She was shortlisted and highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize. Durre is the co-editor of Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (404 INK). She was the recipient of a Future Wales Fellowship. Her work uses decolonised creative methodologies to tell marginalised narratives and has been published in Poetry Wales, Wasafiri Magazine, and elsewhere. Joe Dunthorne is the author of three novels and a collection of poems. His debut novel, Submarine, was translated into fifteen languages and made into an award-winning film. His latest book, Children of Radium - a memoir about family and chemical weapons - will be published in April 2025. Joshua Jones (he/him) is a queer, neurodivergent writer & artist from Llanelli, south Wales. His debut, Local Fires, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize & Polari First Book Prize. His poetry pamphlets include A Fistful of Flowers in (2022), Three Months in the Zebra Room (Hello America Stereo Cassette, 2024), and The City on Film (Bread and Roses, 2024). Sophie Mackintosh is the author of three novels: The Water Cure, Blue Ticket and Cursed Bread. Her debut novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. Cursed Bread was longlisted for the Women's Prize 2023. She has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others.
December 19, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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We have an exciting announcement coming up today at 3PM... keep your 👀 on our socials!
January 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM