The best of contemporary Welsh short story writing, Seren New Welsh Short Stories 2015 offers a wide-ranging view of a country from new and established writers including Stevie Davies, Trezza Azzopardi, Joe Dunthorne, Owen Sheers, Cynan Jones, Deborah Kay Davies, and Rachel Trezise. Stories range from the personal to the universal; from the streets of urban south Wales to the wilder reaches of small town and countryside; and from film sets to the limits of time and space.
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New Welsh Short Stories is an excellent collection that shows the vibrancy of the current crop of Welsh literary talent. With short stories going through something of a golden period, Seren have compiled a selection that shows just how far the form can be taken. This anthology comes highly recommended for short story fans, as well as those keen to try something a bit different. - Bookstrust --Booktrust
When reviewing a collection of short stories one has to single out a few for special mention. The difficulty here is that I d give special mention to all 19 of these stories, by writers either born or living in Wales, if space allowed. The collection has no theme, as such. Yet certain commonalities can be observed: clarity of writing, a strong sense of place, a recurring tinge of melancholy, an interest in youth and adolescence, night-time. Tom Morris's 17 is a marvellous coming-of-age story told in short, numbered scenes, combining humour and pathos; Joao Morais' Yes King Fu is a great slice of comic Cardiff urban realism, as if written by a Welsh Irvine Welsh; No One is Looking at You, by Deborah Kay Davies, is about puberty and family power struggles and a bikini, with an ending I still can t quite work out (I will go back to it); A Letter from Wales, by Cynan Jones, is a brilliant scientific detective story in the manner of H G Wells; Kate Hamer's Crocodile Hearts is a twisted tale about a neighbour who keeps crocodiles in the garden like many of these stories, the action takes place at night and one might also mention here Tyler Keevil's Night Start, which is about an epiphany on a hot June night with a hint of the supernatural about it. Carys Davies' Mr Philip is a story about bereavement, in which a pair of shoes becomes a symbol for grieving yet it has an unexpectedly uplifting ending. Not all the stories are set in Wales: Eluned Gramich's Pulling Out is about a Japanese boy who returns to Tokyo after a year in England, to find that his brother has not left his bedroom the whole time he was away. I'm sorry I have no space left to mention the others. --Brandon Robshaw in The Independent
Francesca Rhydderch is a former associate editor at Planet: The Welsh Internationalist., a former editor at Gomer Books, and a former editor atNew Welsh Review. She is the author of The Rice Paper Diaries, which won the Wales Book of the Year: Fiction 2014, and was short-listed for the BBC National Short Story Award 2014 with her story “The Taxidermist’s Daughter.”Penny Thomas is fiction editor at Seren. She has also worked as a freelance editor for publishers including Chicken House, Parthian, and Honno Welsh Women’s Press, before setting up Firefly Press, a Wales-based children’s publishing company, in 2013.
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