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Wales's literary quarterly in English

New Welsh Review, Wales's leading literary quarterly magazine in the English language, is sponsored by the Welsh Academi and the Association of Welsh Writing in English, and supported by the Arts Council of Wales. Founded in the 1988 as a successor magazine to The Welsh Review (1939- 1948) and Dock Leaves/ The Anglo-Welsh Review (1949-1987), it is a magazine where the best of Welsh writing in English, past and present, is celebrated, discussed and debated. In a recent survey, it was described as one of the best five British literary magazines worth subscribing to.

New Welsh Review is aimed primarily but by no means exclusively at a Welsh audience and those with an interest in Welsh and Celtic literatures. Each issue runs on average to 104 crown quarto pages with a range of critical articles on matters of literary, cultural or current intellectual concern in Wales, as well as providing a platform for new short stories, poems and reviews. Interpreting its brief widely, the magazine at the same time takes an active interest in resonant literary and cultural developments in other parts of the British Isles and further afield. It also maintains a watching brief on the Welsh-language literary scene, providing non-Welsh readers with a window on developments, and occasional translations.

New Welsh Review's main concern is with books, particularly those produced by publishers in Wales which are often ignored by newspapers and periodicals published in London and elsewhere. But it also covers developments in English-language theatre in Wales (each issue of the magazine includes a special theatre section) and pays critical attention to broadcasting and film as a natural extension of its literary/cultural brief.

New Welsh Review Ltd, the magazine's publishing company, also produces an annual journal, Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, dedicated to the academic study of the subject. Each volume contains original essays and scholarly writing, which relate the Welsh and English literatures of Wales, and an annual bibliographic listing of major work in the study of Welsh writing in English. This is an indispensable resource for students and teachers alike.

Subscriptions:

New Welsh Review is available on subscription at £18 per annum (4 issues) or £34 for 2 years (8 issues) (student rates £16 & £28), to overseas subscribers via surface mail at £17 per annum (4 issues) or £32 (8 issues) For air mail delivery, add an extra £4 or £8 respectively.

Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays is available at £11.00 to individual subscribers and £14.95 to institutions per volume, including post & packaging.

Send sterling cheques, money orders or credit card details ( Visa or Mastercard: state the credit card number, expiry date, name and address of card holder) to New Welsh Review Ltd., Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Cardiff CF5 1QE, Wales, UK.

New Welsh Review can be contacted by e-mail for enquiries, subscriptions and contributions at robin@nwrc.demon.co.uk