There are just two weeks left to enter the New Welsh Writing Awards 2016: University of South Wales Prize for Travel Writing. The prize celebrates the best short form travel writing from writers based in the UK and Ireland and those based worldwide who have been educated in Wales. The word length is 5,000-30,000 and the closing date is midnight 3 April. Entry is free.

First Prize:

  
•  £1,000 cash, e-publication by New Welsh Review on their New Welsh Rarebyte imprint in 2016
•  a positive critique over lunch with leading literary agent Cathryn Summerhayes at WME

Second Prize:

•  a weeklong residential course in 2016 of the winner’s choice at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre

Third prize:

•  a weekend stay at Gladstone’s Library

All three winners will also receive a one-year subscription to New Welsh Review. In addition New Welsh Review will consider the highly commended and shortlisted nominees for publication in a forthcoming edition of its creative magazine New Welsh Reader with an associated standard fee.

Find out more at http://www.newwelshwritingawards.com/ and you can watch our call for entries video here: https://vimeo.com/152185256
In addition to the writing prize, New Welsh Review is giving readers a chance to nominate their favourite travel books in their Best Travel Book Poll.

Find out more here: http://www.newwelshwritingawards.com/best-travel-book-poll/

To nominate your favourite travel book email us at marketing@newwelshreview , tweet us @NewWelshReview using the hashtag #NewWelshAwards or add a comment on Facebook.com/NewWelshReview. Deadline for nominations is midnight 3 April 2016.

We will reveal the longlist on 20 April and will be inviting the public to vote for the shortlist and winner which will be revealed on 1 June and 7 July respectively.