A Welsh language short story that I wrote has been published in the online literary magazine, Y Stamp. This is my first story to be published and I’m very proud of it.

It is a magical tale with its roots in folk stories and traditional fairy tales, touched with magic, beauty and threat. If you read Welsh you can find it at the above link, I hope you enjoy it.

I returned to Tŷ Newydd for another Creative Writing session, under Llwyd Owen this time, the topic being “Start ar the Beginning: The Novel” (a Welsh language session). It was a fun and interesting day, and I was lucky enough to win a copy of his book during the day.

I really enjoy the opportunity these sessions give me to spend time in the company of other Welsh speaking writers. I attend a monthly Creative Writigin group locally, which is an English language group, but I haven’t yet been able to find a local Welsh language creative writing group. So I will continue my annual pilgrimage to North Wales until I can find something closer to home.

Last October i attended a one day creative writing workshop at Tŷ Newydd Writers Centre. I stayed the night before at an Air B&B in Dolgellau and enjoyed a lovely breakfast in Criccieth on my way in in the morning.

I don’t have many photos of the day, I’m afraid – I wasn’t anticipating that I’d be blogging about it within the year!

Caryl Lewis was leading the session, the author of Y Bwthyn and Martha, Jac and Sianco. I was thrilled to meet so many Welsh speakers who were there to write, and thoroughly enjoyed hearing people’s ideas for stories at the end of a writing session to see whether their stories would best suit a short story, novel or screenplay. For this was the purpose of the workshop, to establish what formats best fit different stories.

Lunch was lovely (soup, cheese and bread), and conversation friendly and positive. It was wonderful to meet Caryl and hear her ideas and opinions on our story ideas.

I enjoyed so much, in fact, that I’m returning this October again, to attend a novel writing workshop this time. I hope it will inspire me and give me a boost to decide on a story and to write it.

Welcome to my website – I’m pleased that you found your way here, and grateful that you stopped to have a look around.

In this website I will document my baby-steps towards my dream of becoming a writer. This is where I will share my experiences, frustrations and successes. I would like to become a children’s author, but I don’t know whether I would write be in English or Welsh, or both.

This is a bilingual blog – you can switch the language by hitting the link at the top of the page.

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Eluned