Matthew G. Rees - Writer

Thrilled, moved & honoured to have been chosen for 2023 Rhys Davies Award, Wales's prize for the short story. Forthcoming anthology @parthianbooks will feature my story 'Harvest' & stories by 11 fellow writers. Looking forward to meeting them at launch @swanseastones Thurs Oct 12

Spotted this morning, Welsh Marches.

Plummeting UK temperatures. My #shortstory 'Seasoned' was written & published in September when the intended axing of the automatic #winterfuelpayment for UK senior citizens was announced by the UK Govt. The story can be found here: nation.cymru/culture/short-s… #WinterFuelPayments

Many thanks from me to master narrator Kristin Holland for his bravura performance of my #shortstory 'An Exhibition' - featured #tale in the latest #podcast at 'Nocturnal Transmissions'. Available to hear FREE here: nocturnaltransmissions.com.a… #shortstories matthewgrees.com

My thanks to editor Bob Pope for having my #shortstory 'The Strangest of Tales' in his latest anthology 'Incredibly Marvelous Creatures' - 15 stories, 216 pages, in a lovely-looking paperback. Fab cover art by Mya Britt-Anderson. us.amazon.com/Strangely-Marv… matthewgrees.com

Just spotted! Amazon currently has 'a special' on my #shortstory collection 'The Feast' - 22 weird #tales of #strange dining. Normal Amazon UK price: £9.99. Amazon offer price: £5.99. Tuck in here: amazon.co.uk/Feast-Matthew-G… 'dazzling...deeply impressive' - Verified Purchase Review

Eye-catching Victorian gates encountered at dusk in an old market town in the Welsh borders at the weekend. matthewgrees.com

Liking this cover for the 11th BHF Book of Horror Stories - in which I'n due to have a tale. I gather it's on schedule to be out in time for #Halloween Theme: Folk Horror. Bumper collection of circa 30 #shortstories plus original art. Neat spoof of trad-style price table on back.

Looking forward to Swansea Books Fair this coming weekend, Oct 5-6, at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Somerset Place, Swansea SA1 1RR. Free entry to the fair, hours 11 am to 4 pm. I'll be there on Saturday. If you happen to be in the 'hood, come and say hello. matthewgrees.com

'Fringes of Grey' is the new story collection from Canada-based writer Lene MacLeod. I've read a number of stories by MacLeod & suggest this is a book to look out for. Many thanks for her kind words about my own writing!

"the brittler the bark, the better the burn" - My thanks to those who've published "Seasoned", a new & perhaps uneasy #story by me with a satirical take on UK's #WinterFuelAllowance controversy. The #tale is at nation.cymru/culture/short-s……… #shortstories matthewgrees.com

My thanks to ed David Longhorn for having my #shortstory 'Corpsed' in new-out Supernatural Tales 56. (Thirsty thesp of a certain age Carwyn Blyth takes a perhaps unwise - & certainly well-oiled - wander after 1st night of a new play.) P'back & download via suptales.blogspot.com/

Flying ducks. Variation on a theme. End wall of a new cafe that's opened in Brynmill, Swansea.

Low tide, the beach at Swansea.

Bowled over by 5-star review Stateside of 'The Boy From The Coach: Llangynidr, The Coach and Horses, & Childhood' - my father's memoir of his boyhood in Breconshire, Wales, in the 40s & 50s, revolving in large part around the old coaching inn that was in a branch of our family.

'Adorable...a delight.' Have been bowled over by utterly lovely review at 'Buzz' - culture & listings magazine - of my father's memoir , 'The Boy from The Coach' by J.A.S. Rees. Huge thanks to reviewer Chris Andrews & all @BuzzMagWales #Llangynidr #WALES buzzmag.co.uk/the-boy-from-t…

Pleased to have a story in the next 'Supernatural Tales'. 'Corpsed' will be in Issue 56, out autumn. My thanks to editor David Longhorn. List of featured tales can be found on the 'ST' site suptales.blogspot.com/ Provisional cover has art by Sam Dawson. #shortstories #tales

Just want to express appreciation to all who've shown such interest in my father's memoir of his boyhood in #Breconshire, Wales, during years of Second World War & those after, centring on the #Usk Valley village of #Llangynidr nr #Crickhowell. Thanks!! 😀 amazon.co.uk/Boy-Coach-Llang…

International Dylan Thomas Day - Personal memory: me in arty photo (herewith, by Mark Lawson-Jones) with Jon Gower at 2019 launch of my #story collection 'Keyhole' (Three Impostors press) at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, birthplace & home of Dylan Thomas. Great privilege for me.

My thanks to @Gaynorfunnell for her thoughtful review of my father's memoir 'The Boy from The Coach' by J.A.S. (Tony) Rees about his boyhood in #Llangynidr nr #Crickhowell, Wales. The book is here: amazon.co.uk/Boy-Coach-Llang… Gaynor's review is here: nation.cymru/culture/book-re… #memoir

Sceptical re. that 87.8 % vote? 'The Snow Leopard of Moscow & Other Stories' might be a book for you. "nothing short of perfection... a treat" - Buzz. 18 #stories of the strange kind, with photos, set in Putin-era Moscow amazon.co.uk/Snow-Leopard-Mo… #shortstories #tales #unexpected