Our authors
Julie Ann Rees
Paper Horses
Julie Ann Rees holds a first class Masters degree in creative writing from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Her short stories have been published both on line at www.horla.org and in print with Parthian books, Sliced Up Press, Black Shuck Books and forthcoming anthologies with Improbable Press and Honno Press. This is her first book.
She is a single mother and works at a busy rural library in West Wales.
When not riding her horse over the wild Welsh hills she can be found
on:
https://www.facebook.com/julieAnnRees
https://twitter.com/JulieRe36071199
Owen J Hurcum
Don't ask about my Genitals
Owen Hurcum is an LGBTQ+ activist with many years experience discussing these topics on various Queer panels. They are a leading activist and advocate for the non-binary and LGBTQ+ community in Wales.
They were a primary organizer of Bangor’s first ever Pride event in 2019 and took part in the Wales Wide Virtual Pride that followed in 2020, after COVID cancelled physical pride events.
They are currently on the board of editors for Wales’s first ever LGBTQ+ magazine (LGBTQymru), and they were named on Pride Cymru’s 2020 Pinc List as one of their rising stars amongst the most influential LGBTQ+ individuals in Wales.
As a Non-Binary person they have the lived experience so essential to writing a book on this subject.
Owen became Mayor of Bangor in May 2021 and is Wales’s youngest ever Mayor, as well as the first non-binary person to ever become Mayor of a European City.
Angela Johnson
Arianwen
Angela Johnson was born in West Wales, and is a Welsh speaker. Her work is often inspired by the Welsh countryside, the characters she knew in childhood, and the tales they told.
In a previous incarnation she was an English teacher and taught in a number of schools in the South East of England.
She then studied Creative Writing at the University of Kent. Her novel Harriet and her Women was shortlisted for the Impress Prize for Fiction, and she has won the Poetry Prize at the Folkestone Arts Festival.
She lives in Kent, enjoys travelling to look at birds and plants in exotic places, and is a passionate environmentalist, and, latterly, is spending too much time fulminating about politics.
G B Williams
The Chair
GB Williams has a business degree and works as a systems architect.
She writes crime fiction as GB Williams, and has written novels, shorts and flash fiction.
She has also had some success with steam punk (writing as Abi Barden in the US), paranormal prose, and poetry.
She was born in Kent, grew up in Tonbridge, and now lives in Swansea.
Colin R Parsons
The Man with the Black Shoebox and Other Strange Stories
Colin was born in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. He was always fascinated with science fiction and other worlds, creating stories of his own from a young age. He left school, and writing, at sixteen and didn’t start writing again until his early forties.
He has written short stories, children's books and adult fiction, including crime. and has been a full-time writer since 2013.
Colin works with Primary Schools in England and Wales running presentations and workshops to encourage reading and literacy.
Isabel Adonis
And: a memoir of my mother
Isabel Adonis is a mother, a writer and an artist. She has been published in the New Welsh Review, Urban Welsh, Just So You Know, and the Journal of Caribbean Literature. She was the winner of Best Article 2002 in Impact magazine.
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