The Crazy Truth

Born into a world of pickets and poverty, Girlo Wolf dreams of being a poet. But mental health challenges and an underworld of sex, drugs and alcohol threaten to stand in her way - until she discovers that words are exactly what she needs. Set in post-industrial Wales, The Crazy Truth is an authentic story of one woman's journey to empowerment.

Dr Gemma June Howell is a multi-talented writer, poet, activist, academic and editor. She is Desk Editor at Honno, Welsh Women’ s Press, Director of Women Publishing Wales— Menywod Cyhoeddi Cymru, and Associate Editor at Culture Matters. Her work has mainly appeared in the Red Poets, with her dialect poetry featuring in Yer Ower Voices (2023). She has also been published by Bloodaxe Books (2015), The London Magazine (2020) and has featured on Tongue & Talk for BBC Radio 4 (2021).