Tyler Keevil is a novelist, short story author, and screenwriter from Vancouver, who arrived in Aberystwyth to further his journey of becoming a writer in the first  years of the new century.

He wrote stories and novels about the life he knew on the West coast of Canada. His works include No Good Brother, Fireball, Burrard Inlet, and Your Still Beating Heart.

Tyler has received numerous awards for his writing, most notably the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ prize, the Wales Book of the Year People’s Prize, and the Writers’ Trust of Canada / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.

The story in Take Three Canadians, ‘Seal Skin’, won the Journey Prize on publication. He now lives in the border country of Wales with his wife Naomi and their two children.

Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan in northern Ontario and brought up on the Welsh island of Ynys Mon.

He is the author of four novels, Send My Cold Bones Home, Revenant, Eye Lake and Hummingbird – which won the Edward Stanford Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place and the Wales Book of Year People’s Choice Award – as well as a collection of linked short stories, The Tower.

His short fiction has appeared in various journals, including Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and New Welsh Review.

He is a winner of the Rhys Davies short story prize and an O. Henry Award.