Association for Welsh Writing in English

Now accepting paper and panel proposals.

Conferences ​Sites of Memory: making, remembering, forgetting 15 - 17 May 2026   Hybrid Conference – in person  and simultaneously online Aberystwyth University The Thirty-sixth Annual Conference of the...

Details of this year's AWWE conference are now live! The theme is 'Sites of Memory - making, remembering, forgetting'.

Submit your proposal via our website by 1 March.

The place of Wales and its literature Liam Higginson’s new folk-horror, ‘The Hill in the Dark Grove’, made us wonder: do Welsh books need to written in Welsh to count as, well... Welsh?

Can Welsh literature be written in English, asks Prospect Magazine: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...

Great new book coming, by @wigs24.bsky.social

Only a few days after the Cardiff shock, we hear of major redundancies at Bangor and University of South Wales, including the closure of English. Our sympathies to staff and students affected, and to the communities left without provision in our field and so many others.

Gwen Watkins obituary Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who went on to become a successful author

We extend our condolences to the family of Gwen Watkins, Bletchley Park codebreaker, author, critic and widow of poet Vernon Watkins, who died recently at 101.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

AWWE is shocked by the Cardiff University redundancy announcement and those at all other institutions, and offers its solidarity to all affected, including our members. The state of Welsh HE will be a major topic of discussion at our upcoming conference.

Conferences Friday 9 - Sunday 11 May 2025   Hybrid Conference – in person at Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, and simultaneously online The Thirty-fifth Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in...

Details of our annual conference here. 9-11th May, Neaudd Gregynog Hall. Theme? Underscapes! www.awwe.org/conference.h...

Between Sheen and Swift, WWiE is having a moment!

Ahead of the announcement of this year’s conference #CfP, a reminder that my scholarly association is on here: @awwe.bsky.social for all your #Welsh writing in English needs.