This Autumn, The Gwydir Press will print a special letterpress edition of 'A Letter from Wales', a short Gothic tale in which science is challenged by metaphysics. ​ The edition has been near a year in the making. Each page has been painstakingly set by hand by Ken Burnley, then printed on an old Franklin Cropper platen press. ​ Peter Welford's extraordinary linocut illustrations enhance the edition, which will be hand-bound in paper wrappers by Judy Corbett. ​ The edition ha

A man kayaks out to sea to scatter his father's ashes and is hit by lightning in this short story drawn from the novel Cove, published in The New Yorker in December 2016. Selected from over 600 entries, this year’s shortlisted stories are: "Murmur" by Will Eaves "The Waken" by Jenni Fagan "The Edge of the Shoal" by Cynan Jones "The Collector" by Benjamin Markovits "If a book is locked there’s probably a good reason for that, don’t you think?" by Helen Oyeyemi The winner will