Seren New Welsh Short Stories

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.

Francesca Rhydderch is a former associate editor at Planet: The Welsh Internationalist., a former editor at Gomer Books, and a former editor at New 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.