Mark Blayney

Mark won the Somerset Maugham award for Two Kinds of Silence. His short stories Doppelgangers and spoken word Loud Music Makes You Drive Faster are published by Parthian; his poetry collections are The view from my shed with Dreich Chapbooks, and This is not a pipe, which is forthcoming from Valley Press. Mark has been an RLF Fellow, working in Cardiff and Swansea Universities. He runs regular writing workshops for the Awen Cultural Trust and gives mentoring and one-to-ones via many organisations including Literature Wales. He won a Wales Media award for Business Journalist of the Year and was Head of Research at the Chartered Institute of Marketing for five years. His novel Invisibility, set in early 19th-century Trinidad, London and Wales, won the 2023 New Welsh Writing awards. He lives in Cardiff.