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American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney has been named the winner of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize – the world’s largest and most prestigious literary award for writers aged 39 and under – for her debut poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name. Selected unanimously by this year’s judging panel, the collection traces the turbulent, often…
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There is a particular kind of reading experience that is difficult to explain without sounding as though something improbable has occurred. You are reading as you always do, moving through sentences, following an argument, inhabiting a voice, and then something shifts. A line stops you. Not because it is especially beautiful, or clever, or even…
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Today is World Book Day, a day to honour all the books that have made us laugh out loud, caused us to weep, or both, and have stayed in our memories for as long as we can remember. They may not be Nobel-esque literature, but they are the stories we go back to over and…
Jenn Writes 