All previous awards, publications and appearances are listed here.
Awards
Lucent Dreaming Short Story Competition
Second place for short story ‘A Change of Skin’
2020
Literature Wales Writers Bursary
To complete short story collection
2019/20
Seren Christmas Poetry Competition
First place for poem ‘The Grey Mare’
2017
The Welsh Poetry Competition
Highly commended for poem ‘Homesick’
2016
BBC National Short Story Award
Longlisted for short story ‘Rhizome’
2020
Wales Book of the Year
Shortlisted for Salacia
2019
The Welsh Poetry Competition
Highly Commended for poem ‘Cawl‘
2017
The Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award
First Place for short story ‘Cartref’
2016
Poetry London Poetry Prize
Special mention for poem ‘Eve’
2020
Literature Wales Mentoring Scheme
To complete short story collection
2018/19
The Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award
Highly commended for short story ‘Welsh Cakes’
2017
Robin Reeves Writing Prize
Third place for poem ‘Fy Iaith’
2015
Publications
Poetry Wales: Issue 57.1
2 poems
2021
Becoming a mother During a Global Pandemic
Wales Arts Review
2020
Support Bubbles for new parents in Wales come too little, too late
The National
2021
Mari Ellis Dunning on the poems that inspire her
Poetry Wales
2020
Womxn, Wombs, Vessels: the US Elections and Reproductive Rights
Wales Arts Review
2020
Anthology of Young Welsh Poets
3 poems
2020
Deep Time Anthology
Poem: ‘Song for a bird’s skull’
2020
The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass
Black Rabbit Press
2020
Black Bough Poetry
Poem: ‘July 2nd, 3:08pm’
2020
New Welsh Reader, Summer 2020
Poem: ‘Telling Your Father at Bwlch Nant yr Arian’
2020
Lucent Dreaming, Online & Issue 8
Short Story: A Change of Skin
2020
Poetry Wales, Issue 56.1
Poem: ‘Snow Day on the Graig’
2020
New Welsh Reader, Summer 2020
Short Story: ‘How to Conceive a Crow’
2020
iamb
3 Poems
2020
Cheval 11
3 Poems
2018
Salacia
Parthian Books
2017
The Lonely Crowd, Issue 6
3 Poems
2017
Cheval 9
Short Story: ‘Cartref’
2016
Poetry Wales: Stay at Home Special
2 Poems
2020
Well, Dam!
Poem: ‘Ffynnon Elian’
2019
The Lampeter Review, Issue 16
Poem: ‘Lingering’
2018
Banshee Lit Mag, Issue 5
Poem: ‘Pythagorus Theorem’
2017
Welsh Poetry Competition Anthology
Poem: ‘Homesick’
2016
The Broken Spine, Issue 1
Poem: ‘We Smoked Cigarettes’
2020
Black Bough Poetry
Poem: ‘Waxing/Waning’
2019
New Welsh Reader
Poem: ‘The Visitor’
2018
Cheval 10
Short Story & 3 poems
2017
How to Exit a Burning Building
Poem: Fy Iaith
2016
Appearances
Seren Poetry Festival 2021
April 2021
The Hexing Circle event via Zoom
November 2020
The Slumbering Sloth Podcast
October 2020
Swansea Fringe Festival: All My Dark Daughters
October 2019
Abergavenny Writing Fest
April 2019
Picnic at the Roath Park Pub
November 2018
Cardiff Book Festival
September 2018
Word Ward, Wales Millennium Centre
March 2018
The Carnival Bookshop Launch Event
November 2016
Swansea Fringe Festival: Launch Party
October 2019
Seren Cornerstone Festival
February 2019
Voices on the Bridge
November 2018
Llansteffan Literary Festival
June 2018
Young Writers Squad at The Dylan Thomas Centre
January 2018
Abergavenny Writing Festival
April 2016
Hay Festival
May 2019
Aberystwyth Art Centre Book Shop
December 2018
The Crunch Podcast, Episode 10
December 2018
Murrenger Poetry, Newport
September 2018
Laugharne Fringe Festival
April 2018
Collective: hosted by Christina Thatcher
November 2017
Media
Poetry Wales
“Mari Ellis Dunning on the poems that inspire her“
May 2020
Radio Cymru
“Rhaglen Rhys Mwyn”
May 2019
BBC The Slate
“Feature: ‘Gwen ferch Ellis'”
October 2019
Hay Festival Blog
“Writers at Work: Mari Ellis Dunning”
May 2019
Black Bough Poetry
“In Conversation with…”
June 2019
Cardiff Review
“New Welsh Writers: Mari Ellis Dunning”
February 2019
“I am my own stranger,” Anne Sexton
