Carys Shannon - Writer’s Biog:
In 2017, I graduated from the University of South Wales with an MPhil in Writing and have had short stories published in anthologies by Honno Press, Parthian Books and Mslexia Magazine. I was shortlisted for the 2021 Rhys Davies Short Story Award and the 2012 Terry Hetherington Award. My latest short story Pwca’s Garden was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2023. Nonfiction publications include WomanKind magazine, YES Magazine and International House Journal.
My first novel was awarded a Literature Wales development grant and has been longlisted for the Bath and Mslexia Novel Awards and shortlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award. In 2020 this novel won the Jericho Writers Festival of Writing Prize.
Published Work
Pwca’s Garden, BBC Radio Wales/Cymru, Short Works, November 2023
What Spring Says, Tyger Tyger Children’s Poetry Magazine, July 2023
Angel Face, The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology 2022, Parthian Press, October 2022
What the Bear Said, Issue 87, Mslexia Magazine, September 2020
Life in Lockdown, Womankind Magazine, 2020
Telling it Together, Macmillan (web), 2019
Creative Possibilities, Macmillan (web), 2018
Why Storytelling is Important, IH Magazine, 2017
Theatre Without Walls, YES Magazine, 2015.
I’m Listening – a Case for Empathy, performance, Volcano Theatre Company, Swansea, 2013
Threads, Cheval 5 Anthology, Parthian Press, 2012
The Missionary (poem), Antagonist Magazine, 2009
Departure and Return, In Her Element Anthology, Honno Press, 2008
Song of the Veal Calf, Respect for Animals Anthology, 1998
Awards:
2023, longlisted for the Bath Novel Award.
2022, shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Short Story Award.
2021, shortlisted The Caledonia Novel Award.
2020, winner of Jericho Writers’ Friday Night Live Award, Summer Festival of Writing.
2017, longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Award.
