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Hello world! We're Folding Rock - a new magazine for the best Welsh and Wales-based writing, launching with our first issue in March 2025... Watch this space 👀

Calling all publishers and publicists! From March 2025, we'll be publishing reviews, features and interviews, both online and in print, and we want to hear about all your upcoming English-language titles from and connected to Wales! Give us the scoop via foldingrock.com/tell-us-about-…

OCTOBER 16TH-20TH 2024 Come and experience Art, Literature and Music at the Neath Arts Festival. #ukspf #neath #neathartsfestival #neathartsfestival2024

Fantastic Polari Literary Salon at Exeter Phoenix tonight! A lovely, warm audience, some familiar faces and not 1, not 2, but 3 actual Daleks in the room! Thanks to Nat McGrath🏊‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🚴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ Joshua Jones | Local Fires Nicholas Pegg & VG Lee for their wonderful readings and to all who came along. Love on ya!

We are delighted that former Bath Spa University MA in Creative Writing Joshua Jones | Local Fires has been shortlisted for the Polari Prize 😍😍😍 enormous congratulations! polarisalon.com/copy-of-polari…

If you're in Neath tonight come down to hear myself, Joshua Jones | Local Fires, and Georgia Carys Williams read from our books and discuss our works and how the places we grew up in influenced them 📖✨ neathartsfestival.cymru/#thu9

"A Stone For Gaza" by MP Pratheesh has been reprinted by Greg Thomas/Oo Press, I had to grab myself a second copy of this beauty! £5.00 including p&p, all proceeds go to Medical Aid for Palestinians #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocideInPalestine #FreePalestine oo-press.com/postcard-poems/

The Disasters Emergency Committee Middle East Humanitarian Appeal has raised over £600,000 in Wales since it launched on Thursday buff.ly/4h8NrhH

Just one more month until the 2024 Polari Prizes winner ceremony! Tickets to the event are available now: seetickets.com/event/the-pola… You can find the full list of shortlisted titles below. We hope to see you there! ✨

⭐ Neon Roses by Rachel Dawson John Murray Press ⭐ Local Fires by Joshua Jones | Local Fires, @parthianbooks ⭐ Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth, VERVE Books ⭐ Bellies by @nicoladinan, @PenguinuUKbooks. 🧵1/2

🚨 Issue 73 of #thewelshagenda is out now, free for members and available to purchase for non-members! We have a typically varied set of articles about Welsh life today, from surf therapy to Wales’ net zero journey. iwa.wales/our-work/work/…

Was honoured to open for Joshua Jones | Local Fires's 1 year anniversary of Local Fires last Sunday. Read from Fox Bites (out via @parthianbooks), performed with my new band Cottage Vipers, and read something new which got a warmer reception than expected. Lovely, confidence boosting stuff 😊

Joshua Jones | Local Fires loving this! Such witty and heartbreaking stories ♥️♥️ @parthianbooks ♥️♥️

This was a lot of fun! Thanks for having me, The London Magazine

Best of luck to all the Polari Prize shortlisted writers this eve British Library BritishLibraryEvents and especially to Joshua Jones | Local Fires & Rachel Dawson flying the flag for Wales! 😍🎉🎉📚📚@parthianbooks John Murray Press Literature Wales Books Council of Wales

Delighted (and a tad terrified) to announce that Folding Rock Magazine’s webshop is live! If anyone’s scrounging round for last-min Xmas gifts, how about 3 issues of amazing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿-connected writing featuring the likes of Sophie Mackintosh, joe dunthorne, Durre Shahwar and Joshua Jones | Local Fires?

Issue One: Roots will be published 6th March 2025, and feature brilliant new work from writers including Sophie Mackintosh, joe dunthorne, @Durre_Shahwar and Joshua Jones | Local Fires -- with a full line-up and cover-reveal coming in January... foldingrock.com/shop/standalon…

Introducing the first four writers for our inaugural issue 🎉 Sophie Mackintosh, joe dunthorne, @Durre_Shahwar and Joshua Jones | Local Fires We can't wait to share what they've written for us with you in March! Preorder issue 1 foldingrock.com/shop/

Featuring: Sophie Mackintosh Pamela Petro Rachel Dawson joe dunthorne Jay Griffiths @Durre_Shahwar Anthony Shapland Joshua Jones | Local Fires Brigid Lowe Philippa Lewis Maya Jones Liberty Smith Eluned Gramich Mari Huws Jones

'Maybe they just won’t look up, he said. Many people go their whole lives without looking up.' New short fiction by Joshua Jones. Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-the-in…