Dave Lewis is a working class writer, poet and photographer based in Pontypridd. He’s always lived in Wales except for a short spell in Kenya in 1993-94. He writes content for and still maintain many web sites. He’s worked for BBC Wales, written local newspaper columns and been published in a number of literary magazines and web sites all over the world. His short story ‘Onions’ was a runner up in the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition in 2009. His short story ‘Pachyderm Hiraeth’ was longlisted in the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Award 2024.
He has produced over twenty books, including a crime thriller trilogy based in south Wales and Africa. His last novel, The Welsh Man, is another Welsh noir, gritty, urban novel set in Wales and the UK.
In 2007 he set up the first-ever Welsh Poetry Competition, an international poetry competition aimed at encouraging the wealth of creative writing talent that exists in Wales and beyond.
He also runs Publish & Print, a book publishing company that is seeking good writers that have been overlooked by the mainstream publishing industry.
