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Poetry Book Awards

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The Poetry Book Awards is an annual, international book award given to the best poetry books produced by indie writers, self published authors or books published by independent or small presses. Even though more and more people are enjoying and participating in creative writing it is becoming increasingly difficult to become traditionally published, especially in the poetry world. Most of the top book prizes and competitions do not allow self published authors to enter. If they […]

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Goodreads

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You may or not have heard of ‘Goodreads’ but if you like books, writers and literature then maybe you should take a look. It’s the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Their mission is to help people find and share books they love. Goodreads launched in January 2007. A Few Things You Can Do On Goodreads See what books your friends are reading Track the books you’re reading, have read, and want to […]

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23 Ways To Promote Your Book

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OK, you’ve written a great book but no-one has bought it yet? How do you get people to see your work of art? Below are lots of simple, free ways to promote your book. Tweet about it Ask your readers to send in images of them with your book and then share them on social media Comment on threads in Facebook groups or on other people’s threads to build your reputation as an expert in […]

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Support Us

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This website costs money to produce and is also very time-consuming. The costs are domain name, web hosting, design and maintenance. It has been created to help all Welsh writers and we receive no funding or support from any of the arts/literary organisations in Wales (even though they get millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to promote you) so if you would like to offer financial support for us to continue with this project then please […]

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Welcome

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Welcome to our news page. If you have a writers event, an open mic night or a poetry contest you want to tell the world about please let us know. Any businesses that want to publish ‘guest blog posts’ on this page please send us an email.  We offer very competitive prices although your post must be relevant to our readers (no gambling, casino, adult sites accepted).