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DHQ: Dewithon 2019-2024

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1st to 31st March 2019-2024

The event is now hosted by Karen at BookerTalk

Welcome to DHQ (Dewithon Headquarters), the one-time nerve centre for Reading Wales!

The people of Wales celebrate St David’s Day annually on 1st March – the date of our patron saint’s death in 589 CE. In honour of this traditional anniversary, and also in recognition of the time of year when daffodils (the national flower of Wales) explode into bloom, back in 2018 it was declared the annual starting date of Dewithon – Dewi being the diminutive form of the Welsh name Dafydd (David).

Throughout March the international book blogging community was invited to write about the literature of Wales. This included reviews and articles about novels, non-fiction publications, short story anthologies, biographical works (by or about Welsh writers), travelogues, volumes of poetry (or single poems), essay collections, or indeed any texts with a meaningful connection to Wales.

Participants were permitted to write in either Welsh or English, but as a non-Welsh-speaker, my (personal) posts weren’t bilingual. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop native speakers from reading and posting in Cymraeg (the true ‘British tongue’).

To find I out why I finally decided to step back from hosting Dewithon, please see Time to Say ‘Hwyl’.

Diolch yn fawr (thank you very much)!

What you were encouraged to write

I enjoyed very much reading your reviews, features, essays, interviews or anything else with a connection to the literature of Wales.

Were there any dewi-dos and dewi-don’ts?

  1. Posts could be written in English or Welsh (bilingual if preferred).
  2. The subjects covered in posts had to relate in some way to Wales and/or the Welsh (or the Welsh diaspora), however, it was permissible to critique works by authors permanently living and working in Wales, regardless of their country of origin.
  3. The official hashtag, #dewithon was used when tweeting/xing about Reading Wales.
  4. The period in which participants were encouraged to read and post related content to blogs (or other platforms) was 1st March to 31st March.
  5. Please feel free at any point in the future to use the Dewithon logos.
  6. Everybody was encouraged to have fun!

Where you were encouraged to seek inspiration?

There are numerous websites listing Welsh writers, some more comprehensive than others, often providing a bridge to further sources of information. The following links are worth perusing as you may feel motivated to examine in more depth a particular author or piece of writing:

Official Dewithon Posts (2018-24):

Links of Interest:

Other Helpful Websites:

A Selection of Yearly Events:

Publishers:

Periodicals:

General Features of Interest:

SUGGESTED READING

You may be interested in reading The Literature of Wales by Dafydd Johnston, a concise and authoritative guide to the Welsh and English language literatures of Wales, from the earliest period up to the present day.

Please feel free to drop me a line with your thoughts and suggestions.

 

Dewithon Logo Daffs

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186 replies

  2. BookerTalk
    12/03/2019 • 4:08 am

    Another contribution to #dewithon from me – Cwtch Corner welcomes Thorne Moore who writes from her home in rural Pembrokeshire, lucky her https://bookertalk.com/2019/03/12/thorne-moore-visits-cwtch-corner-waleswrites/

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  3. cath
    25/03/2019 • 9:29 am

    Just posted another Welsh short-fiction review as part of #Dewithon on https://cathum.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/reading-welsh-short-stories-for-the-dewithon19-part-2/ Loved taking part in this, Paula. Thumbs up for setting it off. 🙂

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