Mari Ellis Dunning

NATALIE ANN HOLBOROW is a Swansea-born writer and won both the Terry Hetherington Award and Robin Reeves Prize in 2015. She has been shortlisted and commended for various other awards including the Bridport Prize, the National Poetry Competition and the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Her debut collection, And Suddenly You Find Yourself (Parthian, 2017) was listed as one of Wales Arts Review’s ‘Best of 2017’. Her second poetry collection, Small, is to be published by Parthian in 2020. She posts regular advice for writers on her blog at www.natalieholborow.com 

MARI ELLIS DUNNING’s poems and short fiction can be found in recent and upcoming editions of Banshee Lit Mag, New Welsh Reader and The Lampeter Review. Her debut poetry collection, Salacia, was published by Parthian in 2018, and shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2019. Mari is a PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University, where she is writing a historic novel set in 16th century Wales, exploring the relationship between accusations of witchcraft, the female body and reproduction/fertility. She lives on the west coast of Wales, in Llan-non, with her husband and their dog. http://www.mariellisdunning.cymru