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Many thanks to Nation Cymru for publishing a piece I wrote about living in Mathry – or not, as the case may be.
You can read it here: https://nation.cymru/culture/letter-from-mathry/
It gave me the opportunity to find out more about the area and I use it to show how stories can be found anywhere – even in the smallest, or most remote, places.
I’m thinking particularly of my Bristol Prize-winning story, ‘A Cure for All Our Ills’, set around the church of St Edren’s, which is in the middle of a field, a couple of miles from where I live. There were over two thousand entries for this competition. from all over the world, but this, based on an obscure Welsh folk tradition, won.
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And there are plenty more stories to be written in the future!
Mathry’s former telephone kiosk is now a Community Library, so I’ve put a copy of my short story collection, ‘Trouble Crossing the Bridge’ in there. It doesn’t feature ‘A Cure…’ but does include ‘Whale Watching’, set in Fishguard, just a few miles down the road. I hope the local readers like it!
‘Trouble Crossing the Bridge’ is now available on Kindle (as well as the Mathry phone-box!).
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