Meet the candidates from Wales who have been selected to participate in the 2024/2025 Ulysses' Shelter 3 residency programme.

Emyr Wallace Humphreys translates from Welsh and Portuguese to English, and from English to Welsh. A graduate of the MA programme in Translation Studies at University College London, he has had literary translations published in journals such as The White Review, the New Welsh Review and Joyland Magazine, and has collaborated with Parthian Books, HarperCollins and UCL Press as a literary translator. He won a bursary for the 2022 Bristol Translates Literary Translation Summer School and was the first Celtic-language translator to be awarded the 2022-23 Visible Communities Mentorship, part of the National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Translator Mentorship programme. He is a two-time nominee for Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations Anthology. His translation of Owain Owain’s futuristic Welsh novel Y Dydd Olaf will be published in June 2024 as The Last Day (Parthian Press). He works as a Welsh translator for Coleg Gwent and as a volunteer Welsh translator the Centre for Alternative Technology and Mid & North Powys Mind. He lives in Wales, dividing his time between rural Powys and Aberystwyth.

Steffan Phillips (1987) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and facilitator from Wales. He holds a BA in Theatre, Music and Media and an MA in Welsh and Celtic Studies. He is currently studying for a PhD at Aberystwyth University exploring poetry films and is also involved in several theatre projects. He recently produced a poetry zine in collaboration with artist Elin Angharad. He is spending two weeks in Prague as poet in residence with the European programme Ulysses Shelter where he will be putting finishing touches to his first poetry publication.

Bethany Handley is an award-winning writer, poet and disability activist. Her work explores nature and disability, challenging the barriers Disabled people experience, and has been published in POETRY, Poetry Wales, Spelt, The Welsh Agenda, Plantlife, and Country Living, and featured by BBC Radio 4 and BBC Wales, amongst others. Bethany was one of the writers on Literature Wales’ Representing Wales 2023-4, she was longlisted in the National Poetry Competition 2024, and she was awarded Creative Future’s Gold Prize for Creative Non-fiction 2023. She was invited to read alongside Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and poet Owen Sheers on the Laureate’s Library Tour 2024. Bethany is currently co-editing a bilingual anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled writers. Her debut poetry pamphlet explores being a young Disabled woman in a crossfire of ableism and will be published by Seren in February 2025.

Bethany will be participating in the festival remotely as a guest.