about
Rhys Owain Williams was born in 1987 and raised in Morriston, a large town located within the city of Swansea, Wales. He moved to the Sandfields area of the city as a student and, following a too-short period of travelling around North America, now lives in Brynmill.
Rhys's poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Agenda, Lighthouse and Popshot, and was recently featured in a permanent public art project at Morriston Hospital, commissioned by Art in Site. He has also published fiction and non-fiction, and regularly contributes criticism and comment to Poetry Wales and Wales Arts Review.
In 2016, Rhys was named as a runner-up in the Wales PEN Cymru New Voices Competition, judged by Fflur Dafydd and Owen Sheers. In 2017, he became part of the Hay Festival's Writers at Work project – a long-term professional development strategy to nurture Welsh writing talent, funded by Arts Council Wales.
Rhys runs The Crunch multimedia poetry magazine alongside fellow poets Adam Sillman and Richard James Jones, and was recently appointed assistant editor of The Ghastling: a literary magazine dedicated to the macabre.
His first poetry collection, That Lone Ship, will be published by Parthian in 2018.
Rhys's poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Agenda, Lighthouse and Popshot, and was recently featured in a permanent public art project at Morriston Hospital, commissioned by Art in Site. He has also published fiction and non-fiction, and regularly contributes criticism and comment to Poetry Wales and Wales Arts Review.
In 2016, Rhys was named as a runner-up in the Wales PEN Cymru New Voices Competition, judged by Fflur Dafydd and Owen Sheers. In 2017, he became part of the Hay Festival's Writers at Work project – a long-term professional development strategy to nurture Welsh writing talent, funded by Arts Council Wales.
Rhys runs The Crunch multimedia poetry magazine alongside fellow poets Adam Sillman and Richard James Jones, and was recently appointed assistant editor of The Ghastling: a literary magazine dedicated to the macabre.
His first poetry collection, That Lone Ship, will be published by Parthian in 2018.
Rhys Owain Williams was born in 1987 and raised in Morriston, a large town located within the city of Swansea, Wales. He moved to the Sandfields area of the city as a student and, following a too-short period of travelling around North America, now lives in Brynmill.
Rhys's poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Agenda, Lighthouse and Popshot, and was recently featured in a permanent public art project at Morriston Hospital, commissioned by Art in Site. He has also published fiction and non-fiction, and regularly contributes criticism and comment to Poetry Wales and Wales Arts Review.
In 2016, Rhys was named as a runner-up in the Wales PEN Cymru New Voices Competition, judged by Fflur Dafydd and Owen Sheers. In 2017, he became part of the Hay Festival's Writers at Work project – a long-term professional development strategy to nurture Welsh writing talent, funded by Arts Council Wales.
Rhys runs The Crunch multimedia poetry magazine alongside fellow poets Adam Sillman and Richard James Jones, and was recently appointed assistant editor of The Ghastling: a literary magazine dedicated to the macabre.
His first poetry collection, That Lone Ship, will be published by Parthian in 2018.
Rhys's poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Agenda, Lighthouse and Popshot, and was recently featured in a permanent public art project at Morriston Hospital, commissioned by Art in Site. He has also published fiction and non-fiction, and regularly contributes criticism and comment to Poetry Wales and Wales Arts Review.
In 2016, Rhys was named as a runner-up in the Wales PEN Cymru New Voices Competition, judged by Fflur Dafydd and Owen Sheers. In 2017, he became part of the Hay Festival's Writers at Work project – a long-term professional development strategy to nurture Welsh writing talent, funded by Arts Council Wales.
Rhys runs The Crunch multimedia poetry magazine alongside fellow poets Adam Sillman and Richard James Jones, and was recently appointed assistant editor of The Ghastling: a literary magazine dedicated to the macabre.
His first poetry collection, That Lone Ship, will be published by Parthian in 2018.