Home to You: 10 Years of Wales Arts Review

Wales Arts Review celebrates ten years as home to some of the best critical writing from Wales, and the best critical writing about Wales. We believe that a vigorous critical culture is vital to the sustenance of a vibrant arts scene, which itself is the expression of a confident and creative society.As an online platform for original and informed writing about culture and society, Wales Arts Review looks beyond the nation's borders to explore exciting cultural trends and contentious issues from across the globe. Our reach has extended to over two hundred countries, as we have welcomed international readers interested in the Welsh arts and languages.HOME TO YOU is a celebratory anthology of new thought-provoking nonfiction from leading writers that Wales Arts Review has featured in its first ten years. Our contributors originate from both inside and outside Wales, and many live beyond its borders, but all have good reasons to call the nation home.This dazzling collection of essays, memoirs, travelogues, and artist profiles, traces the intricate and often surprising cultural ties between Wales and the wider world.HOME TO YOU offers fresh perspectives, from an eclectic array of powerful voices, on what it means to be Welsh in a globalised digital culture and examines how Wales is responding to international crises and controversies.

"For 10 years Wales Arts Review has challenged, provoked, encouraged enraged and inspired the arts in Wales. Perhaps most importantly it has helped us see where we are as a culture and the possibilities of what lies ahead."Michael Sheen;"Ten years is a short time in an ancient country like Wales, but Wales Arts Review has achieved a huge amount in its decade of existence. It has kept the arts in conversation not just with their audiences but with each other. Wales Arts Review was, from the start, tired of the old straw targets and the false oppositions. Curious and open-minded, alert to the present, it never suffered from fashionable amnesia or curated our nostalgias. Its ethos is to celebrate, but also to scrutinise, and this anthology is a fitting marker of its ambition, its range and its dynamism." Patrick McGuinness;"Wales Arts Review is a vital feature of our country's cultural life, and I can't imagine a Wales without it." Lleucu Siencyn, Chief Executive Literature Wales;"For a decade, Wales Arts Review has fulfilled the utterly vital task suggested by its name; that is, it has reviewed (with wit, insight, skill and sensitivity) the arts (the exploration of the human soul at one particular moment in history through all and myriad forms of creative endeavour) in Wales (a wet and wild little country on the western edge of the European continent which has produced, continues to produce, and will produce endlessly fascinating and variant modes of artistic expression). In short: what WAR does is essential to the life of an emergent nation. Long may it thrive." Niall Griffiths

P.J. Morris is a writer, critic and academic. He co-founded Wales Arts Review and served as its Managing Editor from 2012 - 2016. After graduating from LAMDA in 1996, he worked as an actor for touring companies and BBC TV. His plays have been staged at the Finborough Theatre and Riverside Studios in London, and by Welsh theatre company Dirty Protest. He was a Senior Lecturer in English & Applied Drama at the University of Wales, Newport, and has taught at Ohio University, University of Dubuque and Morley College. His short stories have been published in New Welsh Review, The Lonely Crowd and A Fiction Map of Wales. He is currently completing a novel for his PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.