What do Kate Bush, The Smiths, and The Lion King have in common? They're all featured in our new Undersong Playlist. 🎶 With a week to go until Issue 003 is out we wanted to share this taster for you. 👀You can check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/35d...

Introducing Folding Rock's newest team member 👋 Kaja is our brand new Marketing Associate, here to take the lead on digital content, including on our socials and in your inbox with the FR monthly newsletter (which you should absolutely sign up for if you haven't already > link in bio) 👀

Issue 003: Undersong | Out 13.09 Something is rekindled in the grainy late-night livestreams of the Eras Tour. A fisherman wakes to sing back the dead. A disillusioned thirtysomething finds solace in piano renditions of the Beatles. tinyurl.com/003Undersong

Happy pub day to Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s 'The Republic of Parenthood'! 🎉 We spoke with Rhiannon for 'This Writing Life' about writing with a toddler, the 'swimming and thinking' stage, and a dreamy ideal writing day in the South of France. 🔗 foldingrock.com/this-writing...

Passionate about brilliant writing and keen to support emerging talent? Want to be part of the Folding Rock story? We’re inviting applications to join our Advisory Board. Apply by 14 Sept. Full details: foldingrock.com/folding-rock...

The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and it's pub day for Issue 002 of Folding Rock ☀️ Read the editorial: foldingrock.com/start-as-you...

Your summer reading sorted - Lily from @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social on what's coming out that she would recommend 📚 foldingrock.com/books-in-the...

Writers: if you missed our submissions session on Monday, you can now watch it back online - to find out more about how we roll, from editors @rjph91.bsky.social and @kathryntann.bsky.social foldingrock.com/submissions-...

ISSUE 003 SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN For our autumn issue, we’re keeping an ear out for all kinds of music, sound and melody. 🔊🎶🎧🎸🥁

"Who the hell did I think I was? This was sacred territory I had no business encroaching onto..." Journalist Ceri Jackson writes about the harsh reality of completing her true crime debut, The Boy From Tiger Bay - free to read on our website today: foldingrock.com/writing-is-e...

Thanks to Folding Rock magazine @foldingrockmag.bsky.social for the review of Seascape - and in its first issue to boot. @calonbooks.bsky.social foldingrock.com/review-essay...

Cover reveal for Issue 002: Speak to Me Design by @needledesign.bsky.social Edited by Kathryn Tann and Rob Harries

"Nothing else feels like a way in which I can go through life and feel satisfied" For the first interview in our series spotlighting this year’s @hayfestival.bsky.social Writers at Work, we caught up with journalist and fiction writer @rhysthomas.bsky.social foldingrock.com/writers-at-w...

It's officially Hay month! So of course we've rounded up some of the Welsh authors and events we’re excited to see this year at @hayfestival, and which are still available to book. Will we see you there? foldingrock.com/hay-festival...

ICYMI: Rob Harries and @kathryntann.bsky.social, founders of new Welsh literary magazine @foldingrockmag.bsky.social, outline their ambitions to develop and celebrate the country’s writers 👇 #BookSky

2 weeks to go until our next event: An Evening with Folding Rock at MagCulture Expect good company and exclusive merch, plus insights into our plans for the future from editors and co-founders and readings from contributors including @joedunthorne.bsky.social tinyurl.com/AnEveningWit...

📢 Tomorrow evening! 📢 There are still some tickets available if you want to join us and some brilliant authors in Aberystwyth tomorrow - with drinks, readings, and new magazine merch too... See ya there folks 👋 foldingrock.com/folding-rock...

Following last week's 2025 #SUDTP25 shortlist announcement, we're delighted to profile the six outstanding authors! @jonathancape.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.social @wearefootnote.bsky.social foldingrock.com/dylan-thomas...

It's officially the first day of Spring - which feels like the perfect day to share this gorgeous little excerpt from Mari Huws Jones' 'The Centre of Things' May all the seeds you sow this year grow as wildly! 🌷🌻 foldingrock.com/.../standal....

Issue 002 of Folding Rock, SPEAK TO ME, is available for pre-order, both as a standalone issue and to begin your subscription with! /1 foldingrock.com/shop/standal... foldingrock.com/product-cate...

For all our wonderful Patron and Gift subscribers: apologies and thanks so much for your patience! We’ve *finally* taken delivery of our limited-edition totes, and they’ll be heading out to you all by the end of the day 👀

PSA: Issue 002 of Folding Rock, SPEAK TO ME, will be available for pre-order this coming Wednesday, the 19th of March! As a result, if you want to begin a subscription with us spanning Issues 001–003, you only have until first thing Wednesday to do it. /1

Books in the Window 📚 Today on our website, Alexia from the Bookshop by the Sea shares her reading recommendations for Spring. This list is a mix of tried-and-tested bookseller and customer favourites and highly anticipated titles across the genres - plus a few extras picked by Folding Rock! /1

Thought this was an iPad case coming in the letterbox, so happy to find out it’s actually much more exciting, the first ever issue of @foldingrockmag.bsky.social - very interested to keep up with the Welsh writing coming through this after reading Granta for years and wishing for something like it

Happy pub day to Issue 001 writer Anthony Shapland! We're celebrating with a review by Adrian Hobbs of this punch-packing debut on our website: foldingrock.com/review-a-roo...

Where great minds meet. Your full Hay Festival 2025 programme is here. Book now! www.hayfestival.org/hay-on-wye

What an incredible way to welcome our new magazine into the world: with a sold-out event, amazing energy, and readings from four of our brilliant contributors to Issue 001. THANK YOU to everyone who came out on this rainy Thursday night to celebrate with us. We're still reeling.

"England, Scotland and Ireland have Granta, Gutter and The Stinging Fly respectively as periodicals synonymous with their best and brightest authorial stars of the future. Wales now has Folding Rock." Read the inaugural editorial for Folding Rock Magazine: foldingrock.com/issue-001-ed...

Debut issue of @foldingrockmag.bsky.social arrived, looking absolutely class

We hope you love it! 😁

“These authors deserve to be discovered and read by a significantly larger audience … but for this to happen, Wales needs to firmly step out of the shadows of its more prominent bedfellows and stand as a literary nation … ” ✍️ @foldingrockmag.bsky.social bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...

Stellar Welsh writers showcased in @foldingrockmag.bsky.social, launched today At a time when artistic and cultural austerity seem to be shutting down every avenue to fresh expression, the new Welsh literary periodical Folding Rock pushes back. bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...

This launches tonight - Folding Rock 001: Roots | 6 March 2025. Llongyfarchiadau all @foldingrockmag.bsky.social ! My piece #SometimesWeSpeak is a dad/son two hander. It's packed with good writing, elegantly typeset, edited with care. I'm in in very good hands. Go buy one!

It's here! The day we've been waiting for - the first issue of Folding Rock is officially out of our heads and loose in the wild. We hope that you enjoy reading 'Roots' as much as we've enjoyed making it. Read the editorial from Issue 001 here: foldingrock.com/shop/standal...

VENUE UPDATE | The Issue 001 launch will now be at Da Coffi, One Central Square, Cardiff, still with our friends @TramshedTech... but in slightly different space! Everything else is the same, still fully accessible - and we're now just a hop and a skip from the station, for those coming by train.

The inaugural issue of Wales’ newest literary magazine - Roots - @foldingrockmag.bsky.social is now available to pre order from the OLA shop. ‘Our roots embroider the bedrock of everything we do - for better or worse. They are the vessels that feed our future.’ Edited by R Harries and K Tann

It's hard to name a magazine. One of the most frequent questions we've been asked since we began this journey is "Why 'Folding Rock'?" Our co-editor @kathryntann.bsky.social tells the story - and you can read it on our website now: foldingrock.com/why-folding-...

We're excited to be partnering with the Dylan Thomas Prize, the world’s largest and most prestigious literary prize for young writers. Their 2025 longlist online now - take a peek, because you may just be seeing one (or more!) of those names in our pages before the year is out...

Hay Festival and Folding Rock are joining forces! Excited to announce that we're the official media partner to the Hay Festival Writers at Work programme 2025. Writers: applications for this game-changing opportunity are open now. We'll see you there! @hayfestival.bsky.social

6th March @TramshedCF - join us to celebrate our first issue! There will be readings, nibbles, music, and books - what more could you ask for? 🥂 Tickets are free - book at: tinyurl.com/FoldingRockT...

Very excited to be featured in the first edition of Folding Rock magazine!

We are so proud of this thing, and every brilliant writer featured in it. Check it out, folks. My goodness there is some talent out there.

Folding Rock 001: Roots | 6 March 2025 Cover by @needledesign.bsky.social Edited by @rjph91.bsky.social and @kathryntann.bsky.social Pre-Order at tinyurl.com/FoldingRock001

We have an exciting announcement coming up today at 3PM... keep your 👀 on our socials!

Our first monthly newsletter will be arriving in inboxes tomorrow - don't miss out on all the latest from Folding Rock as we gear up for issue 001! stats.sender.net/forms/e31yAn...

Introducing the first four writers for our inaugural issue 🎉 Sophie Mackintosh, @joedunthorne.bsky.social @durreshahwar.bsky.social and Joshua Jones We can't wait to share what they've written for us with you in March! Preorder issue 1 foldingrock.com/shop/

What do you get for the book-worm who has everything? How about a subscription to the hottest new literary mag in town 👀 Folding Rock gift subscriptions come with a limited-edition @needledesign.bsky.social print & one of our fabulous tote bags! 🎁 foldingrock.com/shop

Our shiny new website is officially up and running! You know what that means? You can browse our subscription offers, (including gift 🎁) and be the first to pre-order the VERY FIRST ISSUE of Folding Rock Magazine... Find out more: foldingrock.com