Folding Rock is a magazine publishing the very best creative prose from Wales – and beyond.

ISSUE 001: ROOTS is out now.

From Issue 001 | A quietly roiling story of a son and his ageing, ailing father, from the Waterstones Welsh Book of the Year-winning author of A Room Above a Shop
From Issue 002 | Beth Preece muses on the 'wet' of Moyra Davey's work
From Issue 002 | Go down the rabbit hole of bunny blogging in this darkly funny short story.
'Proud to call ourselves home' - Gemma June Howell reviews Maya Jordan's 'Resistance Tales of a Working-class Woman'.
It's the Folding Rock team's turn to shout about their favourite books this season - including the year's biggest reading highlights, and top picks for 2026...

News and Events

Join us at Penarth Pier Pavilion for an evening of stunning literature from some of Wales’s most talented writers and thinkers, as we celebrate the first anniversary of Folding Rock.
Celebrate Folding Rock ‘s folklore-themed fourth issue, Telling Tales, at The Pontio in Bangor (and join us for an exclusive afterparty too)
Folding Rock is one! Head to the Peckham Pelican and celebrate a year of the very best new writing from Wales – and beyond.

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