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A community-focused open mic collective featuring underrepresented writers from Wales and beyond✨ (currently on a pandemic-induced hiatus)
Cardiff, Wales
Joined August 2017
Incase anyone didn't know, we're still on a hiatus, focusing on our studies, writing, personal lives, mental health. The pandemic changed the shape of a lot of things and we're taking a long pause to reflect on what that change means for WICF. We hope to return in the future!
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I am indebted to each and everyone who helped me in this long journey. I am thankful to @WICFCardiff, @Durre_Shahwar, @Hananiscreative & @tayloredmonds for providing such a welcoming and supportive space for new writers in Cardiff. Thank you to @LitWales and @Ty_Newydd
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Love this thread by @HammadHRind. Hammad performed at WICF back in 2019 and it's great to see his journey since then.
A very personal thread on writing No man is an island, as John Donne says, and every man is a piece of the continent. As an unrepresented writer, living and writing away from my place of birth, navigating my way through the various stages of writing and publising has been..
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@kandacesiobhan and I were interviewed about our essays in #WelshPlural by @BBCNews Official publication date is 8th March so nab your copy from @RepeaterBooks
https://t.co/H2dlFACsgT
bbc.co.uk
Two writers on being Welsh when your appearance does not "match an accepted aesthetic of Welshness".
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Oof, this is an amazing list of opportunities for writers to submit work to.
Writers, we know 2022 hasn't quite got off to the start we had hoped for (again!)😢but there are lots of 💯AMAZING writing ✍️ opportunities out there to keep us focused on the words. 🔖Bookmark this and submit! 👉Full list: https://t.co/dF6pwE78Yb
#amwriting #writingcommunity
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The inaugural Lucent Dreaming Prize is now open for entries! With an £1000 top prize, we're looking for poems and short fiction on the theme of hope. Enter now at https://t.co/awp2XPaMuY Closing date 31st May 2022
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@digicreates4u @WICFCardiff @LitWales @Ty_Newydd @PatienceAgbabi It's great that you are keen. The course is a week long and all the information can be found here https://t.co/e8NIgtXXKl You don't have to be published - you should want to write for children though. Good luck!
literaturewales.org
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@WICFCardiff @LitWales @Ty_Newydd @PatienceAgbabi We really want to encourage as many new writers as we can - it will be a week long opportunity to have a safe space to try out some ideas and to find your own unique voice!
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This is fab: 12 fully funded places available on @LitWales @Ty_Newydd residential course for Wales-based writers of colour interested in developing their writing for children and young people. You'll be tutored by @PatienceAgbabi and @jasinbath! Apply at: https://t.co/zT2tJyQ6xI
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A rap-poet @DukeAlDurham, published #author and founder of @WICFCardiff, editor-in-chief and founder of @LucentDreaming share their personal experiences and talk about #Tokenism in #Diversity and making foundational #Change in current times. #Literature #Wales #DiverseVoices
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A new generation of #diverse Welsh #writers are raising their voices to increase literary opportunities for #underrepresented people. A rap-poet @DukeAlDurham , founder of @WICFCardiff , editor-in-chief of @LucentDreaming talk about #MakingChange
https://t.co/f3t2ROa88r
cardiffjournalism.co.uk
Young people are taking action to increase literary opportunities and make structural change by platforming diverse voices in literature
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We loved bringing WICF to Cardiff Library's Open Space. Here's to more in the future. ✨
Light those candles - our Open Space events project is FIVE YEARS OLD this week! 🎂 We’ve run out of fingers to count all our guests to date, but thanks to everyone who’s been part of an event either online or in the library. 🙂📚 https://t.co/88Qk9hRxZc
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Today's From Now On piece is by @jemima_roberts! Read it below ✨
🏊 Today on the journal🏊 Excerpt from: Why I Swim in Wintry Seas by @jemima_roberts
@LitWales @WICFCardiff
https://t.co/OfZ4AHHrbV “Swimming is in my blood. Water coursing my veins just as vitally, as the cells inked red...” Image credit: Efa Blosse Mason
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🏊 Testun Newydd🏊 Detholiad o: Pam ydw i’n nofio mewn moroedd oer gan @jemima_roberts
@LitWales @WICFCardiff
https://t.co/vAT8KL5y66 "Mae nofio yn fy ngwaed. Mae’r dŵr sydd yn fy ngwythiennau yr un mor bwysig â’r celloedd sy’n goch..." Credyd delwedd: Efa Blosse Mason
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Today’s piece is Liquorice by the talented @DukeAlDurham! Content warning for racial slurs and discrimination - listen below and on the @ArtesMundi journal:
Content warning: Some readers may find this poem distressing as it contains descriptions of first hand experiences of racial discrimination, including racial slurs. 🖊 Today on our journal🖊 Liquorice by @DukeAlDurham
@LitWales @WICFCardiff
https://t.co/RX9x3dR6nK
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✍️ Testun Newydd✍️ Gwydr teilchion gan Chandrika Joshi @ChandiJoshi
@LitWales @WICFCardiff
https://t.co/DWoyAa6kC4 “Rwy’n cofio’r diwrnod mor glir. Y diwrnod pan agoron ni ein siwtces o’r diwedd, i ollwng yn rhydd yr hyn oedden ni…”
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Today's From Now On story is Fractured Glass by @ChandiJoshi! Read more below ✨
✍️ Today on our journal✍️ Fractured Glass by Chandrika Joshi @ChandiJoshi
https://t.co/msq1zNyvYs
@LitWales @WICFCardiff "I remember that day so well. It was the day when we finally opened our suitcase and let out our old selves and set them free...’
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✨Testun Newydd✨ Yn gartre i ni, pa bryd? Gan talk to Coco 'Meddai tad-cu unwaith, fe fyddi’n deall beth dw i’n ei olygu. Bod yn ddu, meddai, yw bod yn wych, peidio byth â chywilyddio at fy nghroen, nac at bwy ydw i.' https://t.co/S8xRFPCFIL
@WICFCardiff @LitWales
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Today’s From Now On release is by @talktococo1 - a beautiful poem about identity & family. Read more via the link below!
✨Live on our journal✨ Home for us, when? by Talk to Coco ‘Grandad once said, You will know one day what I mean, He said to be black is excellence, To never be ashamed of my skin, Or who I am.’ https://t.co/7x26BvBvEe
@WICFCardiff @LitWales
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