Mark Blayney won the Somerset Maugham Award for his story books, Two Kinds of Silence, and is currently a Royal Literary Fellow based at Cardiff University. His entry 'Invisibility...view moreMark Blayney won the Somerset Maugham Award for his story books, Two Kinds of Silence, and is currently a Royal Literary Fellow based at Cardiff University. His entry 'Invisibility', a fictionalised account of the life of Thomas Picton, won the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh theme or setting, which was presented at Hay Festival in summer 2023. The entry will be developed, with judge and editor Gwen Davies, into a book for publication on the magazine's New Welsh Rarebyte imprintview less