10 April,
Free Event / Panel /
Folding Rock: A New Welsh Literary Journal
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 4:00pm
Bank of Ireland Theatre, O’Donoghue Centre, University of Galway / Free - Book Tickets
Book NowFor many accomplished writers, literary journals are the place where they had their first opportunity to access publication. These journals are often a sign of a literary community that is cared for and celebrated, and allow growth and collaboration among creatives.
Folding Rock is one such endeavour: this new journal has ambitious plans to support both emerging and established Welsh and Wales-based writers.
Join us for a conversation with Kathryn Tann, Co-founder and Editorial Director of Folding Rock, and two of the writers featured in the publication’s first issue: Sophie Mackintosh and Joshua Jones.
In association with the Welsh Government and Arts in Action
Co-founder and Editorial Director of Folding Rock Magazine. Kathryn is a writer, editor and creative producer from the south coast of Wales. Her debut essay collection, Seaglass, was published by Calon Books in May 2024
Welsh author of three critically-acclaimed novels – The Water Cure, Blue Ticket, and Cursed Bread. They have been nominated for prizes including the Man Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In 2023 Sophie was named as one of Granta’s once-in-a-decade Best of Young British Novelists.
Joshua Jones is a queer and neurodivergent writer and artist from Llanelli, South Wales. He co-founded Dyddiau Du, a NeuroQueer art and literature space in Cardiff Local Fires is his first publication of fiction which has bene shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize 2024 and shortlisted for the Polari first book award. He was a Literature Wales Emerging Writer for 2023 and a Hay Festival Writer at Work.
