Brennig Davies is a writer from south Wales who works in both Welsh and English. At fifteen he became the first ever winner of the BBC Young Writers Award, for a story read on BBC Radio 1 by Sir Ian McKellen, and in 2019 he won the Crown at the Urdd Eisteddfod. He studied English at Mansfield College, Oxford, has twice been shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Short Story Award and took part in the Hay Festival Writers at Work programme. Both his Welsh-language debut novel, Fel yr Haul (Sebra), and his first collection of short stories in English Dogs In a Storm  (Parthian) are featured on our 2026 Bookshelf