{"id":46514,"date":"2019-12-04T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=46514"},"modified":"2019-12-04T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:43:12","slug":"welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations","title":{"rendered":"Welsh fantasy authors discuss their writing inspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Authors of fantasy novels explored how politics, the media and \u2018Welshness\u2019 have influenced their writing in an event at Canton Book Festival.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Authors David Towsey (left), Katherine Stansfield (middle) and Jodie Bond (right) read extracts from their latest novels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Welsh authors discussed how politics, the media and \u2018Welshness\u2019 influenced their latest fantasy novels as part of the first ever Canton Book Festival this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katherine Stansfield and David Towsey &#8211; who form the literary partnership DK Fields &#8211; discussed how political narrative and the representation of current events in the media influenced their novel at the event at Chapter Arts Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Towsey, co-author of&nbsp;<em>Widow\u2019s Welcome<\/em>&nbsp;(2019), said, \u201cWe link story and politics very, very closely in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-authors Stansfield and Towsey said that they were interested in the media coverage of politics and how stories are spun. Stansfield referenced the way the infamous front page photo of Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich was spun to influence the outcome of the 2015 UK general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/widows_welcome_and_vagabond_king-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Katherine Stansfield and David Towsey said they each wrote one of the sub-stories in <em>Widow\u2019s Welcome<\/em> and they like to let people guess which one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Their novel, the first in the&nbsp;<em>Tales of Fenest<\/em>&nbsp;trilogy, is based around an election that spans all three books, which happens inside a frame narrative of a detective story. It is a fantasy novel with elements of the crime genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stansfield said the press coverage of the 2015 refugee crisis influenced&nbsp;<em>Widow\u2019s Welcome<\/em>, which includes discussions of belonging and of those who have the power to decide where people can and cannot belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_chapter_arts_centre-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The Welsh authors talked about how fantasy novels create a &#8216;defamiliarisation&#8217; effect in which the reader is taken into a world very different to their own.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stansfield said, \u201cPeople turn to stories for escapism and to understand our experiences better. The best fiction is making us think in different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is a fantasy novel about something that is important to us right now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stansfield and Towsey discussed the influence of \u2018Welshness\u2019 on their writing, a concept which Stansfield said means different things to different people and is often politicized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a book of Wales, in that we have written it out of Wales,\u201d said Stansfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Towsey said he believes the way you live influences your writing. As for specific Welsh influences, the central government building in&nbsp;<em>Widow\u2019s Welcome<\/em>&nbsp;is named the Assembly, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/chapter_arts_centre-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The Canton Book Festival event was held at Chapter Arts Centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Author of <em>The Vagabond King<\/em> (2019),<em> <\/em>Jodie Bond, said the Welsh influence in her debut novel was not planned, but seeped through, such as in the naming of the gods. She said Greek and Norse mythology were a big influence in her writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bond said, &#8220;The story came out of nowhere really. I sat down one day with a big piece of paper and started sketching out characters.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Widow\u2019s Welcome&nbsp;<\/em>was published in August 2019 by Head of Zeus and <em>The Vagabond King<\/em> was published by Parthian Books in October 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors of fantasy novels explored how politics, the media and \u2018Welshness\u2019 have influenced their writing in an event at Canton Book Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":46515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[583],"class_list":["post-46514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Welsh fantasy authors discuss their writing inspirations - InterCardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Welsh fantasy authors discuss their writing inspirations - InterCardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Authors of fantasy novels explored how politics, the media and \u2018Welshness\u2019 have influenced their writing in an event at Canton Book Festival.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"InterCardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-04T11:43:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"950\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"534\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anna Hart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anna Hart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations\",\"name\":\"Welsh fantasy authors discuss their writing inspirations - InterCardiff\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-04T11:43:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/e686ae0d4a4f8d447be58458809442f3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/welsh-fantasy-authors-discuss-their-inspirations#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/12\/authors_canton_book_festival.jpg\",\"width\":950,\"height\":534,\"caption\":\"Three authors sat discussing their novels. 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