The Crazy Truth

Gemma June Howell is a multi-talented writer, poet, activist, academic and editor. She is Desk Editor at Honno Welsh Women’s Press, Director of Women Publishing Wales – Menywod Cyhoeddi Cymru and Associate Editor at Culture Matters. Her work has mainly appeared in the Red Poets, with her dialect poetry featuring in Yer Ower Voices (2023). She has also been published by Bloodaxe Books (2015), The London Magazine (2020) and has featured on Tongue & Talk for BBC Radio 4 (2021). In 2010 Gemma was a finalist for The John Tripp Award for Spoken Word. She published a volume of poetry, Rock Life (2014) and a collection of short stories Inside the Treacle Well with Hafan Books (2009). In 2023 she was awarded a PhD in Creative & Critical Writing. Her research focused on the disparities between social ontology and historical realism from a proletarian, feminist standpoint and led to her debut novel The Crazy Truth.