In January 2025, Sian Hughes facilitated a creative writing for wellbeing workshop at Ysgol Gyfun's Plasmawr 'Hafan' unit. The workshop, aimed at Year 7 - 9 learners at the school's additional needs unit, gave participants an opportunity to explore personal names, offering an authentic and meaningful starting point for a creative journey that would lead to a piece of creative writing. Sian...
With 'Spooky Season' almost upon us, it was wonderful to be invited to facilitate an outdoor creative writing workshop exploring 'the uncanny' at the glorious but ever-so-slightly haunted Insole Court manor house, with Yr 12 participants from Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr comprehensive school. After a creative warm-up in The Drawing Room, participants were sent out to explore the grounds, taking with them...
'AmDro’ is a new creative writing programme using GPS technology to inspire a series of rural and urban geocaching creative writing adventures for young people, aimed at promoting wellbeing. Creative facilitators working with the programme will take participants on geocaching adventures around their community - to the beach, skate park, woods, or local heritage site - blending physical activity with opportunities...
In September 2023, Sian Hughes was one of a cohort of six writers selected for Literature Wales' pioneering 'Writing Well' programme. The year-long professional development programme, which provides training, mentorship, and a small pot of initial seed money, will help the selected writers create and deliver participatory projects which will benefit the health and wellbeing of participants. Each of the writers involved...
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More and more schools in Wales are training to become Lead Creative Schools as part of the Arts Council of Wales's Lead Creative Schools Scheme. This pioneering scheme, unique to Wales, involves giving schools access to creative practitioners working across sectors such as the arts, heritage, and science, in order to help embed creative learning methods. The scheme will prepare...
Three authors shortlisted for the English-language fiction category of the 'Wales Book of the Year 2022' award will appear at the London Welsh Centre on Monday 5th December at 7pm to read and discuss their work. The authors include Rhiannon Lewis, author of 'I Am the Mask Maker', Sian Hughes, author of 'Pain Sluts', and Nadifa Mohamed, whose novel 'The Fortune...
New Digital Creative Writing Courses at the National Writing Centre of Wales On November 18 2022, 'Wales Book of the Year' shortlisted writer Sian Hughes will be facilitating an online creative writing workshop designed to explore the creative process and introduce tried-and-tested methods of jumpstarting creativity. Whilst the main focus of the workshop will be on helping writers start their story, participants...
On Saturday 16th July, at the wonderful Cardiff Made Gallery, Sian Hughes's debut collection of short stories, 'Pain Sluts', was finally launched! The evening kicked off just after 6pm with an introduction by artist, director, and gallery curator Zoe Gingell, who has collaborated with Sian in the past. Shortly afterwards, Sian read a couple of stories from the collection - Brontosaurus...
On July 1st 2022, Literature Wales announced the shortlist for the 2022 Wales Book of the Year and 'Pain Sluts' has made the shortlist of only three titles in the English language fiction category, all of which will compete for the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award. The other two titles in the English language fiction category are I Am the Mask...