Welcome to the website of writer Mab Jones.

NEWS

New RSL #LiteratureMatters podcast AT THE CITY’S EDGE: THE WETLANDS OF WALES is now live! Episodes 1 & 2 can be heard ON THIS WEBSITE, on iTUNES, and on SPOTIFY. Find out more HERE.

Mab has a new role as Communications Coordinator for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Please follow the Prize on Twitter and on Facebook for more details and for exciting writing and reading opportunities!

Mab is currently offering poetry surgeries through the Poetry Society. If you’d like bespoke critique and feedback on your poems, then bookings are being taken for the February surgery sessions in Cardiff now.
https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/mabfeb2020/

Mab was announced as the recipient of a Literature Matters Award from the Royal Society of Literature this month. She will be using the money to engage people with the wetlands of Wales. Find out more HERE.

Listen to Mab’s recent BBC Radio 4 programme about little known Welsh female poets, inspired by her collection of Welsh last postcards HERE.

Also still available is Mab’s BBC Radio 3 essay recorded at last year’s Hay Festival. Part of the series ‘Wisdom from Fictional Females’, Mab’s essay is about her love of Jane Eyre. Listen to it HERE.

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