Exact Editions is pleased to announce that the full archive of New Welsh Review is now available to individual and institutional subscribers. Readers can now search for back issues going back to the very first issue published in 1988 with over 30 years of searchable content to explore as well as new issues published.

Founded in 1988 as the successor to The Welsh Review (1939–1948), Dock Leaves and The Anglo-Welsh Review (1949–1987), New Welsh Review is Wales’s foremost literary magazine in English. Central to the Welsh literary scene, New Welsh Review offers a vital outlet for the very best new fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry, a forum for critical debate and a rigorous and engaged reviewing culture.

New Welsh Review have published some of the greatest writers and thinkers from Wales and beyond; Dannie Abse, Paul Muldoon, P.D. James, Emyr Humphreys, Leslie Norris, Gwyneth Lewis, Les Murray, Rachel Trezise, Niall Griffiths, Owen Sheers, Tiffany Murray, Edna Longley, Byron Rogers and Gillian Clarke. Their featured work and more can now be accessed by readers exploring the total digital archive completely faithful to the original print version. 

Today, New Welsh Review holds true to its original mission statement: to be dynamic, curious, lively and outward-looking, to commemorate the past but to celebrate contemporary excellence and new directions.

The Exact Editions digital platform allows readers an intuitive, user-friendly and visually-stimulating experience. The full archive of New Welsh Review can be explored with these helpful features:

  • An advanced search function enabling search of any keywords.
  • A neat stacking interface allowing for ease of browsing years and decades.
  • A clean, high-quality interface faithful to the print edition.
  • New issue notifications alerting readers to the availability of the next issue.

Individuals can buy an annual or quarterly subscription to New Welsh Review by clicking here.

Institutions can buy a subscription or request a free trial of New Welsh Review by clicking here.

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