Diana Powell was born in Llanelli and read English at Aberystywth. She lives now in Pembrokeshire. She won the Allen Raine Short Story Award in 2013 and the Penfro Festival Short Story Competition the following year. Her novella, The Sisters of Cynvael, won the Cinnamon Press Literature award and will be published in 2024. Her stories have been shortlisted in several competitions. ‘Whale-Watching’ won the ChipLit Festival Prize, was runner up in the Society of Authors Tom-Gallon award and featured in Best Short Stories 2020. Powell also won the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2022. A novella, Esther Bligh, was published by Holland House in 2018 and a story collection, Trouble Crossing the Bridge, by Chaffinch in 2020. Powell read at the Llangwm and Abergavenny festivals in 2022.
In a remote valley in the Black Mountains farmer's daughter Beth is a child of nature, utterly at one with the rugged landscape as she tends the farms wayward sheep. But change is coming to the mountains, the modern world enters in the form of the construction of a reservoir in a...
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