Brennig Davies is a writer from south Wales. At fifteen, he became the first ever winner of the BBC Young Writers Award for his story Skinning, which was read aloud on BBC Radio 1 by Sir Ian McKellen. He was educated at Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Morgannwg in Barry before studying English at Mansfield College, Oxford. He has been twice-shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Short Story Award and has been part of the Hay Festival Writers at Work programme. His stories and poems have appeared in The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, the New Welsh Review and on BBC Radio 4. Brennig Davies also writes in Welsh, and his accolades include winning the Crown at the Urdd Eisteddfod in 2019 and publishing his debut novel Fel yr Haul (Sebra), which topped the Welsh Books Council’s bestseller list in the Summer of 2026.

INTENDED AUDIENCE (obviously quite tongue-in-cheek, but hopefully gives some idea of the vibes!):Literary fiction fans who also happen to be freaks; readers of George Saunders, Julia Armfield, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Colin Barrett; the girls and the gays; Bruce Springsteen devotees; seventeen-year-old'sdesperate for a friend; overeducated and underemployed twenty-somethings; older people who can remember being overeducated and underemployed twenty-somethings; lovers of the Gothic; lonely housewives; former and current addicts; anyone who wants to change their life but is unsure if they’re able to; anyone who feels trapped by circumstance; anyone who is worn down but is still trying.