Episode 7:  Myths, the Mabinogi and magical stories with the Tir na n-Og 2023 Winners 

This time, authors Emily Lloyd-Jones, winner of the Tir na n’Og 2023 English language category with her novel The Drowned Woods, and Matt Brown, winner of the Readers’ Choice award with The Mab, join Francesca Sciarrillo to discuss myths, the Mabinogi and the magic of creating stories for young readers.   

Reading List: 

·        The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones  

·        The Mab edited by Matt Brown and Eloise Williams  

·        The Blackthorn Branch by Elen Caldecott  

·        The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones  

·        The Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies 

Joining Ilid Haf in this episode of Crank Up the Volumes are Ruth Glynn, founder of the Cogan Picture Book Award and illustrator Max Low, to discuss the importance of picture books. 

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Joining Ilid Haf in this episode of Crank Up the Volumes are authors Claire Fayers and Beatrice Wallbank, to discuss re-imagining Welsh myths and legends.

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Joining Ilid Haf in this episode of Crank Up the Volumes are Connor Allen, Children’s Laureate Wales and Hanan Issa, National Poet of Wales to talk about poetry and its power … and there’s not a rhyme in sigh.

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Joining Ilid Haf in this episode of Crank Up the Volumes are the award-winning authors Eloise Williams and Lesley Parr. With quite a bit of mutual fan-girling, they talk about writing books set in Wales, how readers and publishers respond to that and much more.

In this episode of Crank Up the Volumes, Ilid is joined by Elen Caldecott, Gwen Millward, and Huw Aaron – authors, illustrators and a publisher – who share their opinions and some of their favourite book covers with us as we discuss one of life’s big questions, should you judge a book by its cover?

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In this episode Ilid Haf talks to Jannat Ahmed and Simon Fisher, two of the Tir na n-Og Award judges, about the joys and challenges of the judging process.

Shortlisted Tir na n-Og books