Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2025 Longlist

Sorry for being MIA over the past month. Like I said in one of my earlier post (my last of 2024?), I’m not going to use my blog as much as I kinda fell out of love with it due to possible burnout. Plus, I am reading/audiobooking LONG stories (as it stands, I am about 46% into Eye of the World by Robert Jordan audiobook [which is under 33 hours long!], 60% into The Magician’s Guild ebook by Trudi Canavan and dipping in and out of my hardback copy of Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld by Paul Kidby). So, no updating on the blog (though if you keep your eyes peeled on my Instagram, Goodreads or StoryGraph, you will be more up-to-date). 

But I’m here not to talk about me. I’m here to share a press release of the longlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize!

First Post of 2025

First blog post of 2025! Can you believe we’re in 2025!? I can’t and it’s boggles my brain a little. 

So, while I am binge-watching the newest series of the Traitors (my guilty pleasure as I am not a huge fan of reality TV), I thought I would share a few titles I am holding space for this year (something I rambled about in my last 2024 post). And yes, most of these are LONG (pray for me!)

Now, there are several titles I have my eye on, which I’m not going to share with you guys. Let me build the mystery on those (maybe I will make a shelf on my Goodreads & StoryGraph…). On some others that I have my beady little eyes on, shall we? (Oh, before I go further, I am going to put affiliate links for Bookshop.org but I will put a * next to it so you know where it is).