Books.
Books are available from all good bookstores and various online outlets.
Research.
My doctoral research has focussed on the 16th century witch trials, particularly within Wales.
Awards
The Sylvia Plath Poetry Prize – Second Prize for ‘A Sudden Mother’
Lucent Dreaming Short Story Competition – Second place for ‘A Change of Skin’ (2020)
BBC National Short Story Award – Longlisted for ‘Rhizome’ (2020)
Poetry London Poetry Prize – Special mention for ‘Eve’ (2020)
Literature Wales Writers Bursary (2019/20)
Wales Book of the Year – Shortlisted for Salacia (2020)
Seren Christmas Poetry Competition – First place for poem ‘The Grey Mare’ (2017)
The Welsh Poetry Competition – Highly Commended for ‘Cawl’ (2017)
The Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award – Highly commended for ‘Welsh Cakes’ (2017)
The Welsh Poetry Competition – Highly commended for ‘Homesick’ (2016)
The Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award – First place (2016)
Robin Reeves Writing Prize – Third place (2015)
Poetry
Fledgling,’ Modron, 2024
‘Five Minutes,’ on Celf ar y Cyd, 2023
‘Mary Wollstonecraft Speaks of Richard Price,’ Free Verse: Poems for Richard Price (Seren, 2023)
‘I Learned the Language of Motherhood,’ in Poetry Wales 58.3
‘A Sudden Mother,’ in After Sylvia (Nine Arches Press, 2022)
‘July 2nd, 3:08pm’ in New Welsh Reader, Issue 130
‘Poem for Marshae Jones’ & ‘Flash: Christine Keeler Astride and Arne Jacobson Chair,’ in Poetry Wales 57.1
3 Poems translated in the Greek Anthology of Young Welsh Poets, 2020
‘Lingering,’ ‘The Bees’ & ‘Relapse,’ on iamb
‘Song for a Bird’s Skull,’ in Deep Time Anthology, 2020
‘Telling Your Father at Bwlch Nant yr Arian,’ in New Welsh Reader, Summer 2020
‘Snow Day on the Graig,’ Poetry Wales, Issue 56.1
‘Rapunzel’ & ‘Gothel,’ in Poetry Wales: Stay at Home Special
‘We Smoked Cigarettes,’ in The Broken Spine, Issue 1
‘Waxing/Waning,’ Black Bough, 2019
‘Ffynon Elian,’ in Well Dam! 2019
‘The Visitor,’ New Welsh Reader, 2018
3 poems in Cheval 11, (Parthian, 2018)
‘Lingering,’ The Lampeter Review, Issue 16
‘Pythagorus Theorem,’ in Banshee Lit Mag,’ 2017
3 Poems in The Lonely Crowd, Issue 6
3 poems in Cheval 10, (Parthian, 2017)
‘Homesick,’ in Welsh Poetry Competition Anthology, 2016
‘Fy Iaith,’ How to Exit a Burning Building, (Parthian, 2016)
Short Stories & Fiction
‘Sorrow,’ in Litro Magazine, 2022
‘Rumours,’ in The Ghastling, 2022
‘A Change of Skin,’ Lucent Dreaming, 2020
‘How to Conceive a Crow,’ New Welsh Reader, Summer 2020
‘Welsh Cakes,’ in Cheval 10, (Parthian, 2017)
‘Cartref,’ in Cheval 9, (Parthian, 2016)
Essays & Articles
‘Curses, whispers and a demon fly: this is the story of the first Welshwoman executed for witchcraft’ in The Conversation, 2025
‘Horrifying black sows and ghostly apparitions: how the magic and mystery of Wales come alive in winter’ in The Conversation, 2024
”The Words She’s Kept in:’ Healthcare Bias in Wales and Beyond’ in Woman’s Wales, (Parthian, 2024)
‘Why so Few Witches were executed in Wales,‘ in The Conversation, 2024
‘A’i Gorbryder yw’r achos?’ in Menopositif, (Cara, 2023)
‘Two Pink Lines‘ in Nation.Cymru, 2022
‘Support Bubbles for new parents in Wales come too little, too late,’ in The National, 2021
‘Womxn, Wombs, Vessels: the US Elections and Reproductive Rights,’ in Wales Arts Review, 2020
‘Becoming a Mother During a Global Pandemic,’ in Wales Arts Review, 2020
Hay Festival: Writers at Work, May 2019
Podcasts/Interviews
Writers on Reading with George Sandifer-Smith, Episode 13
‘How I wrote ‘Blessing for the Women” – Poetry Wales, July 2022
Writer of the Month Feature – The Broken Spine Arts Collective, June 2022
Interview – Broken Asides, – The Broken Spine Arts Collective, June 2022
Writers on Reading with Natalie Ann Holborow, June. 2020
The Slumbering Sloth Podcast, October 2020
‘Mari Ellis Dunning on the poems that inspire her,’ – Poetry Wales, May 2020
Rhaglen Rhys Mwyn, BBC Radio Cymru, May 2019
‘In Conversation with…’ – Black Bough, June 2019
‘New Welsh Writers: Mari Ellis Dunning’ – Cardiff Review, Feb 2019
The Crunch Podcast, Episode 10, December 2018
Audio/Visual
‘Lingering,’ ‘The Bees’ & ‘Relapse,’ on iamb
‘Gwen Ellis,’ The Slate, BBC
‘Gwen Ellis,’ ‘The Grey Mare,’ ‘Waxing,’ The Crunch
Workshops
“Gathering Words: Writing in Autumn” | Poetry Workshop | Aberaeron Book Festival
“Exploring Cynefin through Creative Expression” | in association with GEM and Newtown Textile Museum
“Writing and Wellbeing” | in association with Dyfodol Ni
“Marginalised Figures and Villainous Voices” | Lampeter Writers Group
“Writing Women” | Online course | in association with Literature Wales
“Writing for Wellness” | MIND Aberystwyth | in association with Literature Wales
Conferences
‘Gwen ferch Ellis and the Historical Novel’ at Women’s Archive Wales (WAE) Conference, 2025
‘Writing the Welsh ‘Witsh:’ The Supernatural Other in Early Modern Wales’ at Association of Welsh Writing in English (AWWE) Conference, 2024
‘The Welsh ‘Witsh’: How Culture, Superstition and Religion Halted Witch Trials in Medieval Wales’ at Romancing the Gothic Conference, 2023
‘The Un/Familiar: the Alignment of Women and Beasts in Medieval Wales’ at Witchcraft and the Supernatural Conference, 2023
“I am my own stranger,” Anne Sexton
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