Wack, Amy

Walsh, Louise

Lousie Walsh is 34 years old and lives in Cardiff where she also
works as a legal secretary. She has always loved writing and boxing and is a member of Cardiff Writers’ Circle. Fighting Pretty is her first novel.

Ward, John Powell

John Powell Ward was born in Suffolk and educated at the Universities of Toronto, Cambridge and Wales. Editor of Poetry Wales from 1975 to 1980, he is the author of critical works on Wordsworth and R.S. Thomas among others, and editor of the Border Lines series. He has also published several volumes of poetry.

Watson, Rob

Robert Watson was born in Newbridge, Gwent, and brought up in Pembrokeshire. He studied at the London School of Film Technique before becoming a teacher in Dorset, West Glamorgan and Suffolk. He is now a lecturer in Creative Writing at Bretton Hall College, the University of Leeds.

Way, Charles

Charles Way was born in Devon in 1955. He trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College in London then joined Leeds Education team for which he wrote his first professional play in 1978. He became resident writer at Theatre Centre in London and has since written over thirty plays, many especially for young people. His plays include The Flood (published by Collins), Witness (Duke Playhouse, Lancaster), She Scored For Wales and In Living Memory. Adaptations include On the Black Hill, (Made in Wales) and Ash On A Young Man's Sleeve, (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. Charles has also written several large-scale community projects including the opera, A Song of Streets, for the Welsh National Opera and the people of Cardiff and Bordertown for Monmouth.

Webb, Harri

Harri Webb (1920-1994) was one of the most popular poets in Wales and a plangent cultural commentator. He wrote extensively on literary and political subjects over three decades, in the Western Mail and several magazines. Writing from the political left, Webb was impatient with the Welsh Establishment and the London Welsh. The hallmark of his essays and reviews was a pungent style designed to provoke. Deflated by the 1979 Devolution vote, he despaired that the changes he sought would ever be made and endured a period of silence.

White, Norman

Norman White is Senior Lecturer in English at University College, Dublin. He is author of Hopkins: A Literary Biography (OUP) the standard work on Hopkins.

Williams, Frances

Frances Williams was born in Bridgend in 1968, She received a BA in Fine Art from Liverpool University and MA in Sculpture from Chelsea College, London. Her poetry has appeared in various magazines including Ambit, Planet, Poetry Ireland Review and Poetry Wales (for whom she was a regular columnist). Flotsam, her first book, was published when Frances was nineteen. Her reviews and articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and Time Out. She currently works as a freelance writer and editor in London.

Williams, Herbert

Herbert Williams is a writer of poetry, fiction, biography, TV and radio scripts. He was an award winner in the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition 1995 and was awarded a Hawthornden Poetry Fellowship in 1992. He currently lives in Cardiff.

Williams, Ioan

Ioan Williams lectures in Drama at University College, Aberystwyth. An authority on many aspects of European theatre and Welsh culture, he is the general editor of a series of translations of European plays into Welsh.