Somerset Maugham Award for Two Kinds of Silence and winner of the 2023 New Welsh Writing Awards for Invisibility. He is currently a Royal Literary Fellow at Cardiff University and works with writers at every level of their career as a mentor and tutor. There is currently a launch offer at http://bit.ly/markblayney for 1-2-1 online tutorials. Mark was an inaugural Hay Festival Writer at Work, won a Wales Media Award for his journalism and has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Other books of fiction include Conversations with Magic Stones, Doppelgangers and poetry Loud music makes you drive faster with Parthian. Latest poetry The view from my shed with Dreich Chapbooks.