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Winner of the 2022 Bristol Short Story Prize 🥂🍾

  • Post author:DP
  • Post published:17th October 2022
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I couldn’t believe this, when it was announced by judge Jessica Taylor; I still can’t quite believe it, now! I will be sharing a lot more photos and words about…

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Bristol Short Story Prize – Update

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  • Post published:13th October 2022
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Here are the twenty short listed writers for the Bristol Short Story Prize (including me!)The results and launch will take place on Saturday, October 15th.Regardless of who wins, it will…

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Songs of the Water, Voices of the Wells

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  • Post published:27th September 2022
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The On Land’s Edge Festival has been and gone, and I was delighted to take part in it. I read my ‘Non’ story and an extract from my ‘Gwenonwy’ –…

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Willesden Herald Short List 2022

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  • Post published:21st September 2022
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I’m delighted to have made the short list of this year's Willesden Herald Short Story Competition. It’s always exciting to see your name on a prize list, though also a…

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Something about wells…

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  • Post published:15th September 2022
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Recently, I wrote my first blog in a long time about some of the holy wells I had come across in Pembrokeshire. It will be the first of a few,…

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On Land’s Edge Festival

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  • Post published:12th September 2022
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Coming soon! An opportunity to hear about my holy wells stories, together with some wonderful music from Jo and Dan Messore. Tickets are available here

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Llangwm Festival Video

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  • Post published:24th August 2022
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As mentioned at the end of my last post, there is now a video of my participation in the crime writing panel, discussing Honno’s anthology, ‘Cast a Long Shadow.’Here’s the link to…

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Llangwm Literary Festival 2022

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  • Post published:19th August 2022
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It was such a pleasure to be back at Llangwm last weekend, for the Literary Festival. It, like so many other events, had been cancelled during the pandemic, and was…

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Bristol Short Story Prize Short List

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  • Post published:27th July 2022
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I am delighted to have made the short list for the Bristol Short Story Prize. Twenty stories, chosen out of over two thousand entries, from all over the world. My…

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Reading at the Hours bookshop, Brecon Cathedral

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  • Post published:26th July 2022
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Last Thursday, I, along with several other Arachne poets, read our work from the A470 anthology, at the Hours bookshop, which is located in the grounds of Brecon Cathedral. What…

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Welcome to the web site of Diana Powell, prize-winning author of short fiction, who lives and writes in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.

Latest news

  • Haverfordwest Book Fair 1st April 2025
  • Coming Soon – a Book Fair 22nd March 2025
  • Writing Highlights of 2024 10th January 2025
  • Nomination for the Pushcart Prize 25th November 2024
  • So you’d like to write a book….or five 14th October 2024
  • The Joy of Hardback Books 6th September 2024

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