Participant as a reader and panellist at Race Council Cymru's 'Diverse Voices Creative Session' at the Grand Theatre, Swansea, March 2023
Participant in 'Enlli Readings and conversation' hosted by Mel Perry of write4word at The Coracle Fringe Festival in Carmarthen, October 2022
Events Presenting and Appearance as a Panelist: I was recently part of the Just Another Poet team reporting from the Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival 2022. As part of this, I interviewed and presented the following:
Sunday's review of all three days at the wonderful Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival 2022:
Amy Wack chatting to Lottie Williams at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival:
Barbara Chidgey, Chair, Daring to Dream, at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival:
Alix Edwards in conversation with Lottie Williams at the Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival:
Sarah Johnson, Festival Manager, in conversation with Lottie Williams at Cardiff Poetry Festival:
Simon's Festival Bookstore at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival:
Sunday's welcome and a look at the bookshop at the Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival:
The Saturday in review with Lottie, Hammad, Alun and Jona at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival:
Swansea Uni creative writing MA students reflect upon the Saturday at the Festival:
Saturday welcome featuring Katherine Stansfield & Jeremy Dixon at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival:
Friday's final thoughts from the Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival:
Poet Kim Moore speaking to Lottie Williams about her reading & her Forward Prize shortlisting:
A discussion about Jonathan Edward's workshop between 2 Swansea Creative Writing MA students:
Oh my days, November was a month of gifts. Firstly, the Nigel Jenkins Award, then a distinction for my MA Creative Writing at Swansea University, and now this - MODRON have nominated me for the Pushcart Prize! It was such an honour to have been published by them in the first place - in a magazine so beautifully vital right now - but for them to have nominated me is an absolute dream. A humbling dream. An exciting dream. Thank you, thank you. I am so grateful.
I was recently asked to create a short piece (see below) about my garden and my children for Studio Cennen, a beautiful art gallery in Llandeilo. Check out their current exhibition entitled Body : Stitch : Soul : Grow which is on until 30th July 2022. Further information can be found on their website https://studiocennen.com/ or on Instagram @studiocennen. Each afternoon, when the midday sun is at its highest and the top of the garden is partly in the shade of the ash, we venture barefoot to the old cherry tree. In the later years of its life, green leaves umbrella rough bark and is the perfect place to hang our bird feeders. We have three. My young children fill the seed holder first using doidy cups and, whilst most goes in, a spray of bouncing seeds scatter the ground, perfect for the larger birds. My children take it in turns to drop in two fat balls each, then the suet block, and we hang them from a stunted branch. We then check on the vegetables and recite their names
I am so incredibly happy to be able to share the news that I have been awarded the Nigel Jenkins Award for Creative Writing, in partnership with Swansea University MA programme and the H'mm Foundation, both of which the late great Nigel Jenkins helped to set up. What an absolute honour it was to stand up at the book launch of Nigel's posthumous poetry anthology launch 'Wild Cherry' last week and read from my dissertation in front of a full gathering. Next month I shall be awarded this prestigious trophy at another event in Swansea, the book launch of last year's winner Gaynor Funnell. I am a humble, excitable bubble! Image is used with thanks to Swansea University Cultural Institute.
