Beyond / Tu Hwnt is a communities-uniting collection of contemporary Welsh Deaf and Disabled voices.By celebrating the diversity and uniqueness of our voices, we aim to fill the void where our stories and experiences always should have existed.Our aim in bringing our poetry, non-fiction and fiction together is to show that our work exists in all its power beyond the barriers and that it always has existed here in Wales. A collection of work by Deaf and Disabled writers shouldn’t be radical, yet it is.Mae Beyond / Tu Hwnt yn gasgliad sy’n uno cymunedau o leisiau Cymreig cyfoes Byddar ac Anabl.Drwy ddathlu amrywiaeth ac unigrywiaeth ein lleisiau, ein nod yw llenwi’r bwlch lle y dylai ein straeon a’n profiadau fod wedi bod erioed.Ein nod wrth gasglu’n barddoniaeth, ein llenyddiaeth ffeithiol a’n ffuglen ynghyd yw dangos bod ein gwaith yn bodoli yn ei holl nerth y tu hwnt i’r rhwystrau, a’i fod wedi bod yma yng Nghymru erioed. Ni ddylai casgliad o waith gan awduron Byddar ac Anabl fod yn radical, ac eto dyna ydyw.
Beyond / Tu Hwnt is a communities-uniting collection of contemporary Welsh Deaf and Disabled voices.By celebrating the diversity and uniqueness of our voices, we aim to fill the void where our stories and experiences always should have existed.Our aim in bringing our poetry, non-fiction and fiction together is to show that our work exists in all its power beyond the barriers and that it always has existed here in Wales. A collection of work by Deaf and Disabled writers shouldn''t be radical, yet it is.Mae Beyond / Tu Hwnt yn gasgliad sy''n uno cymunedau o leisiau Cymreig cyfoes Byddar ac Anabl.Drwy ddathlu amrywiaeth ac unigrywiaeth ein lleisiau, ein nod yw llenwi''r bwlch lle y dylai ein straeon a''n profiadau fod wedi bod erioed.Ein nod wrth gasglu''n barddoniaeth, ein llenyddiaeth ffeithiol a''n ffuglen ynghyd yw dangos bod ein gwaith yn bodoli yn ei holl nerth y tu hwnt i''r rhwystrau, a''i fod wedi bod yma yng Nghymru erioed. Ni ddylai casgliad o waith gan awduron Byddar ac Anabl fod yn radical, ac eto dyna ydyw.
Sixteen-year-old Deian wants to be something that doesn’t exist: normal. He wants to ride the school bus without having a panic attack and to have real conversations with real friends, not imagined ones with dead artists.Anest, 17, has long abandoned her quest for normality. She doesn’t think she deserves to be here on, so doesn’t really care if everyone else thinks she’s obnoxious (well, maybe everyone apart from that girl she can’t stop staring at in group therapy).The two very different teens meet by chance late one night. They support each other unfailingly, but are unable to turn that same affection towards themselves and continue to grapple with the self-hatred that threatens to drown them.Can Anest and Deian find a way to free themselves from the weight of normality and - together - realise that an entire sky of possibilities is waiting for them?