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.
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.
The IWA Recommends: Highlights of Hay
Dylan Moore flicks through the Hay Festival programme with his highlighter pen
Review: Hymnal: An Early Life in Verse
Maisie Allen reviews Julia Bell’s debut poetry collection Hymnal, published in April 2023 by Parthian Books.
Review: There is Nothing Natural About Nature Writing
Saskia McCracken reviews contemporary Welsh essayist Jasmine Donahaye’s new book of nature writing Birdsplaining
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
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.
‘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.
‘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