Beyond/Tu Hwnt

Bethany Handley is an award-winning writer, poet and disability activist from South Wales. Bethany campaigns for better access to nature for Disabled people. Her work explores nature and disability, challenging the barriers Disabled people experience, and has been published in POETRY, Poetry Wales and Country Living, and featured by the Poetry Foundation, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Wales, amongst others. Bethany is one of the writers on Literature Wales’ Representing Wales 2023-4, she was a finalist in Nine Arches Press’ Primers, and she was awarded Creative Future’s Gold Prize for Creative Non-fiction 2023. She was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition 2024. Bethany is an Ambassador for Ramblers Cymru, promoting better access to paths. Her debut poetry pamphlet will be published by Seren in February 2025 and she is currently writing her first non-fiction book on access to nature.Megan Angharad Hunter is an author and screenwriter from Penygroes, Dyffryn Nantlle. Since graduating in 2022 with a degree in Welsh and Philosophy, she has been working as an author and children's book editor. Her debut novel, tu ôl i’r awyr, won the Wales Book of the Year award in 2021, and her second novel, Cat, was published as part of the award-winning Y Pump series. In 2023, Megan took part in the Mathrubhumi Festival of Letters in India before contributing to a panel discussion on accessibility in the publishing industry at the London Book Fair. Astronot yn yr Atig, her first book for children has been shortlisted for the 2024 Tir na n-Og award.Erin is a Welsh author, poet, creative practitioner and editor, who also works as a coordinator for Welsh poetry press, Barddas. She's the author of three books - Y Goeden Hud (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2020), Rhyngom (Gwasg y Lolfa, 2022), and O'r Rhuddin (Gwasg y Lolfa, 2024).

Beyond / Tu Hwnt is a communities-uniting collection of contemporary Welsh Deaf and Disabled voices.By celebrating the diversity and uniqueness of our voices, we aim to fill the void where our stories and experiences always should have existed.Our aim in bringing our poetry, non-fiction and fiction together is to show that our work exists in all its power beyond the barriers and that it always has existed here in Wales. A collection of work by Deaf and Disabled writers shouldn’t be radical, yet it is.