New Welsh Reader 134: Skate Fever

by Rachel Hewitt, Jay Griffiths, Stephen Gregory

Overview

Female-led European literature with a focus on place in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, diversity in poetry and panache in photography and visuals. Illustrations by Margiad Evans/Peggy Whistler and Kreg Yingst. This edition celebrates female pioneers, freedom and nature's own laws. In a two-part special on Margiad Evans, we appraise her artwork (including previously unseen drawings and illustrations) and her contribution to nature writing and environmental philosophy. A three-part feature on winter sport comprises prose by Jerwood awardwinning author Rachel Hewitt presenting the St Moritz milieu of author, sports photographer and pioneering Victorian mountaineer Lizzie Le Blond; the UK's first curated collection of Le Blond's breathtaking photography itself, and a paean to skating, past and present, cultural and physical, by Jay Griffiths, winner of the Orion and the Barnes & Noble Discover awards. Plus ghost stories by former Hollywood scriptwriter Stephen Gregory, and the international Rubery Book Awardwinner, JL George

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913830250
Publisher:	New Welsh Review
Publication date:	12/01/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	129
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Rachel Hewitt is a writer and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her first book, the best-selling MAP OF A NATION: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ORDNANCE SURVEY (2010), won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction. She was awarded a Gladstone's Library Political Writing Residency for her second book, A REVOLUTION OF FEELING: THE DECADE THAT FORGED THE MODERN MIND (2017). Rachel is Director of the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts and received the prestigious work-in-progress prize, the Eccles British Library Writer's Award, for IN HER NATURE: HOW WOMEN ARE BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS (2023). She loves trail-running and was 1st Female in the Punk Panther Ultra Series in 2020 and 3rd Female in the Hardmoors Marathon Series in 2019. Her longest run to date was the Punk Panther Dales Way Challenge (c83 miles) in August 2021. She lives in Yorkshire.
Jay Griffiths is author of PIP PIP: A SIDEWAYS LOOK AT TIME, WILD: AN ELEMENTAL JOURNEY and KITH: THE RIDDLE OF THE CHILDSCAPE and A LOVE LETTER FROM A STRAY MOON. She is the winner of the Orion Book Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for the best new non-fiction writer. She has also been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and a World Book Day award. She lives in mid Wales.
Stephen Gregory (b1952) was born in Derby and earned a degree in law from the University of London. He worked as a teacher for ten years in various places, including Wales, Algeria, and Sudan, before moving to the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales to write his first novel, The Cormorant (1986), which won Britain's prestigious Somerset Maugham Award and drew comparisons to Poe. The book was also adapted for film as a BBC production starring Ralph Fiennes. Two more novels, both set in Wales, followed: The Woodwitch (1988) and The Blood of Angels (1994). After the publication of The Blood of Angels, he worked in Hollywood for a year with Oscar-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist). More recently, he has published The Perils and Dangers of this Night (2008), and The Waking That Kills (2013).

Table of Contents

NONFICTION

Cresta Wave, St Moritz, Skate Fever Three-part Feature on Winter Sports by Rachel Hewitt (prose), Jay Griffiths (prose) and Lizzie Le Blond (photography)

Emmy Hennings: Conversions Katie Jones on a sex worker, poet and Dadaist who explored altered consciousness and abject states

FICTION

The Late Mr Lewis A Christmas Ghost Story by Stephen Gregory

Crumbs Story by JL George