Afonydd

Sian Northey is a freelance author, poet and translator. A first language Welsh speaker, she writes in Welsh/Cymraeg and mainly translates from English to Welsh, and occasionally in the other direction. Sian was brought up in Trawsfynydd, and now lives in Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd.
A translation (Susan Walton ) of Sian's novel 'Yn y Ty Hwn' was published under the title 'This House' in 2024. Currently she is working on a novel where a small group of women face the closure of their chapel in rural Wales as the congregation dwindles.
Sian has, through Literature Across Frontiers, visited Kerala as a member of a translation poetry workshop and until recently she was Writer in Residence on an 18-month-long heritage project run by the Church in Wales, which included a week as Writer in Residence on Bardsey/Ynys Enlli.
After co-editing Arachne's first bilingual anthology, A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi'r Ffordd, with Ness Owen, she is very much looking forward to working with her again on Afonydd.
Sian has poems in Arachne Anthologies, A470, and Menopause *the* Anthology.

Ness Owen lives on the island of Ynys Mon where she writes plays, poetry and stories in between lecturing and farming. Her work has appeared in various journals including Poetry Wales, Red Poets, I, S & T, The Fat Damsel, Culture Matters and in anthologies published by Three Drops Press, Here and Now project and Mother's Milk Books and Arachne Press, who published her bilingual first collection, Mamiaith; and for whom she co-edited best selling bilingual Welsh poetry anthology, A470