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We hope all our readers are enjoying the current issue of New Welsh Review. Renew you subscription before the end of March and we'll send you a £5 book token: you help us by a speedy renewal (let's face it, it saves on admin!) and we give you a little something back to say thank you.

You can renew your subscription online here or ring us with your credit card details on 01970 628410. As an extra bonus, when you renew your subscription you can nominate a friend, relative or colleague to receive two complimentary issues, to spread the word about New Welsh Review. If you're not a subscriber yet, why not take advantage of our introductory offer: four brilliant issues delivered straight to your door, post free, and all for £19.

As a subscriber you can enter our prize draws and have a chance to win some fabulous literary prizes, see our website for more details.

Entrances

For those who've yet to discover the pleasures of Canongate's ambitious, fun and eclectic cultural hub, Meet at the Gate, here's a belated link. A truly wonderful thing to behold, with independent comment on literature, film and music. The site features Welsh authors on Welsh authors and looks at some of the most exciting work out there. Hot and very now. Enjoy.

New Welsh Review 86 - Out now

New Welsh Review 86 is out now. Buy or subscribe now and enjoy the best new writing from Glyn Maxwell, Gwyneth Lewis, Kona Macphee, Jim Perrin, Tiffany Murray, Stevie Davies, Jon Gower, Tristan Hughes and more. To find out more, click here or click on the NWR cover to your left.

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Give a gift subscription to New Welsh Review and you'll be giving someone a year of memorable reading: four issues a year that are dynamic, curious and lively, with engaging articles and the finest poetry, fiction and new writing from Wales – and the wider world. Subscribers also have the chance to enter our free prize draws, with the chance to win fabulous literary prizes.

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New look website

Our website has undergone (and continues to undergo) something of a refresh. We hope navigation of the site is now a cleaner, clearer and more enjoyable experience. In addition, you can now sample a selection of choice articles from New Welsh Review's twenty-one year history. Visit the website homepage and click on 'New Welsh Review Online' tab to the right. Articles are still in the process of being uploaded but there's plenty of excellent material already available. Enjoy!

New Welsh Review - Issue 86 - Coming soon

Issue 86 will be published later this month. This quarter, enjoy the work of Glyn Maxwell, Tristan Hughes, Gwyneth Lewis, Jon Gower, Kona Macphee, Stevie Davies, Tiffany Murray and Jim Perrin, among others. Available in selected fine bookshops or, alternatively, subscribe by visiting and get Wales's finest literary quarterly delivered directly to your door.

Guest blogger – Sarah Broughton

Over the next three months, Sarah Broughton will be joining us with guest posts. Sarah is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and her excellent debut novel, Other Useful Numbers, was published by Parthian in 2008. Sarah will be dropping in to contribute news and views.

This marks the start of a series of guest bloggers on the NWR blog. Enjoy.

New Welsh Review Prize Draw

To celebrate our 21st anniversary we are offering the chance to win a complete set of New Welsh Review, from issue 1 to 84. The set is a fascinating collection of Welsh writing in English from 1988 to the present day, mapping tradition and innovation in the Welsh literary landscape, and beyond – from PD James to Terry Eagleton, from Gillian Clarke to Dannie Abse, from Owen Sheers to Rachel Trezise.

The draw is open to all our current subscribers. For a chance to win, subscribers should write, phone or email admin@newelshreview.com before 31st August. Good luck!

If you're not yet a subscriber, you can subscribe online now and save the price of your subscription by this time next year. You can also enjoy the very best new writing from celebrated authors in Wales and the wider world delivered directly to your door. Click here for details.

New Welsh Review at the Dylan Thomas Festival 2009

I'll be in conversation with celebrated Swansea-based novelist Stevie Davies on 29th October at the Dylan Thomas Festival as part of our ongoing 21st anniversary celebrations. We'll be discussing Stevie's life and work, and looking ahead to her forthcoming novel, Into Suez. Stevie will also read from her work. We hope to see you there. More details will follow shortly.

Keeping it new

If it seems I've been quiet... Forgive me. This is the summer hiatus... More posts will be on their way very soon.

In the meantime, a few little updates.

Issue 85 of NWR published within the next few weeks, packed with the best of new writing from Wales and beyond, from authors including Byron Rogers, Pascale Petit, Claire Crowther, Kelly Grovier, Jasmine Donahaye, Nigel Jenkins, Meirion Jordan, Robert Minhinnick, Tyler Keevil and many more.

And we've been busy with our plans for our website, too, which will be undergoing a little sprucing and some enhancement (some nice surprises in store for our readers, both current and future, I hope).

At the beginning of September, our first guest blogger will be joining us: brilliant writer and documentary filmmaker Sarah Broughton. So stay tuned, as those who know are apt to say.

Coming up in Issue 85 - published next month

Issue 85 of New Welsh Review will be published next month and includes Byron Rogers on (auto)biography, Jasmine Donahaye on migration, Lucie Armitt on Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger, John E. McGrath on National Theatre Wales, Meirion Jordan on poetry and history, and Stevie Davies on researching her forthcoming novel, Into Suez. Fiction comes from Robert Minhinnick and Tyler Keevil, with new poems by Pascale Petit, Kelly Grovier and Claire Crowther, among others. All this plus reviews of the very best writing from Wales. To subscribe to New Welsh Review click here.

Oxfam Bookfest - Fflur Dafydd and Deborah Kay Davies at the Wales Millennium Centre

Wales Book of the Year winner Deborah Kay Davies and Fflur Dafydd, who won the Oxfam Emerging Writers Award 2009, will join Peter Florence tonight at the Wales Millennium Centre from 6.30 pm to discuss their work. I've been hugely impressed with both writers' work – Deborah Kay Davies's Grace, Tamar and Laszlo and Dafydd's Twenty Thousand Saints. Highly recommended.

Tuesday 14 July, 6.30 pm - 8.00 pm
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (Seligman Room)
Tickets available at the door or pre-ordered from Academi
(Tel: 029 2022 2275)

Hay Festival 2009

This year's Hay Festival will run from 21st - 31st May. New Welsh Review will have a good presence at the festival, and I'll keep you updated on the details. In the meantime, visit the website for the exciting line-up currently confirmed.

The Laugharne Weekend: 3rd April - 5th April 2009

This year's Laugharne Weekend runs from April 3rd to 5th April. It promises to be a great festival, with a fantastic line-up including Stella Duffy, Patrick McCabe, AL Kennedy and Simon Armitage, together with a host of Wales's brightest and best writers - Robert Lewis, Peter Finch, Rachel Trezise, Catrin Dafydd, Joe Dunthorne, Fflur Dafydd and John Williams among them. All that and you get Howard Marks, too. Some tickets are still available but limited. Visit the festival website for further details.