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Joshua Jones, founder of Dyddiau Du

Soaking Bread with 3năm Studio, or the Importance of Community Art Spaces

Joshua Jones discusses the importance of community art spaces from Vietnam to Cardiff, and reflects on the role of Cardiff-based community space Dyddiau Du in making connections.

30th June (30th June)
  • Voices
A notebook and a pencil

Writers at Work at Hay Festival: ‘A Furnace of Creativity’

Past participants in Hay Festival’s Writers at Work development programme share their experiences and what the scheme means for them.

24th April (24th April)
  • Culture
A portrait of Miguela Gonzalez, a member of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales, who will be speaking at the IWA's event at Hay Festival. She is wearing a white shirt with red flowers and smiling at the camera.

The IWA Recommends: Highlights of Hay

Dylan Moore flicks through the Hay Festival programme with his highlighter pen

17th April (5th April)
  • Culture

Review: Hymnal: An Early Life in Verse

Maisie Allen reviews Julia Bell’s debut poetry collection Hymnal, published in April 2023 by Parthian Books.

5th April (31st October)
  • Culture
A common starling - in Birdsplaining, Jasmine Donahaye reflects on women's experience of nature and nature writing

Review: There is Nothing Natural About Nature Writing

Saskia McCracken reviews contemporary Welsh essayist Jasmine Donahaye’s new book of nature writing Birdsplaining

17th February (15th February)
  • Culture
Dylan Moore reviews Blood on the Crossbar, a new novel by Rhys Richards

Review: Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship’s World Cup

On the day of an iconic World Cup quarter final clash in Qatar, Dylan Moore reviews Rhys Richards’ book about another time football was soiled by sportwashing

9th December (31st October)
  • Culture
Efa encounters Swansea in 2052. This is a still from Galwad, which presents a future left to deal with the consequences of climate inaction.

Climate Inaction: We Need New Stories

As part of our partnership with GALWAD, writer and poet Bethany Handley says the arts can create new stories to challenge climate inaction.

7th November (2nd November)
  • Voices

‘The Elsa Effect’: Representation and the Early Years

Jessica Dunrod and Gwenllian Lansdown Davies argue that anti-racist practice within Early Years provision is the place to start to ensure the Welsh language belongs to everyone.

24th October (24th October)
  • Voices
A picture of one of the My City My Shirt murals in Butetown, where the plot of The Fortune Men takes place.

‘The miasma above Cardiff’: Notes on Wales’ Book of the Year

Dylan Moore says the judges’ – and people’s – choice of The Fortune Men makes for a vital reckoning with history – and with the present

12th August (10th August)
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