Dear All, REMINDER: the deadline for abstracts for the 2015 AWWE conference is Friday 9 January 2014. Please find attached the Call for Papers for the AWWE 2015 Conference, to be held at Gregynog on 27-29 March 2015. The text follows below as well. The Country and the City: Rural and Urban Wales Gregynog Hall, Nr Newtown, Powys 27-29 March 2015 A country of geographical, social and cultural contrasts, Wales encompasses a wide variety of different rural and urban landscapes. From urban Cardiff and the industrial/post-industrial mining valleys of the south through the ‘green desert’ of mid-Wales to the mountains of the north, these contrasting areas are depicted in many and various ways in the literatures of Wales. As Raymond Williams famously noted, ‘country’ and ‘city’ are ‘very powerful words’ which gather and evoke the political, cultural and emotional importance of space and place, not least in relation to notions of the nation and the national. The conference invites contributions on any topic relating to Welsh writing in English and the country and the city, the rural and the urban. Contributions are encouraged from across disciplines, historical periods, and methodological approaches. Topics might include, but are by no means limited to: • The ‘country’ and the nation • Children’s Welsh writing in English • The industrial and/or the post-industrial • Gendering the urban/rural • Genre fiction/s • Comparative contexts • Urban/rural Gothic/s • The city and the capital Abstracts of 250 words for twenty-minute papers should be submitted to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by Friday 9 January 2015. Proposals for panels of three twenty-minute papers are also welcomed. Applicants will be informed by 26 January. Organisers: Dr Aidan Byrne (University of Wolverhampton) and Professor Diana Wallace (University of South Wales). Association for Welsh Writing in English Annual Conference 2015 ‘The Country and the City: Rural and Urban Wales’ Gregynog Hall, Powys 27-29 March April 2015 Deadline for Abstracts: Friday 9 January Send to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Dr Aidan Byrne Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies MC217 Faculty of Arts University of Wolverhampton Wulfruna Street Wolverhampton WV11LY [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> tel: 01902 323430 Diana Wallace Professor of English Literature Division of English, FBS University of South Wales Pontypridd CF37 1DL [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> tel: 01443 482809