Biography
Dave Lewis is a writer & poet based in Pontypridd, south Wales.
He also lectures IT & Photography, designs web sites and writes a weekly blog. He has always lived in Wales except for a short spell in Kenya in 1993-94.
He writes content for and still maintains many web sites, was web
producer for the BBC Wales Scrum V fanzine, has run four hugely
successful rugby sites with Rivals.net and used to write a newspaper column for the Pontypridd Observer. He has written
poetry since his teens and been published in a number of literary
magazines and web sites.
He has had a varied existence to date, and also worked as a builders
labourer, plastic engineer, financial advisor, zoologist,
doorman, software engineer, actor (one Bollywood film!), schoolteacher, librarian
and cyber cafe manager - almost enough for a book one might say!
He has never given up dreaming of being a billionaire philanthropist,
not even when
his first offspring came along, but may have to settle for an easier life writing
poems in the woods.
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Dave has travelled to many countries and has taken lots of photographs whilst on his travels.
In 2005 he cycled from Lands End to John O'Groats, for Ty Hafan. He is a keen walker and helped lead a school expedition to Ecuador. He is always looking to do something a bit different.
He has published five books to date and has just published his first novel, which is a crime novel with a difference, set in various locations around south Wales.
Dave is also in the process of making his books available online with Amazon Kindle and other platforms. He is also half way through a haiku collection and soon hopes to start work on a sequel to his first novel, set mainly in Africa.
After all, life is short and time is elastic :)
Welsh Poetry Competition
In 2007 Dave set up and organised the first ever Welsh Poetry Competition, an international poetry competition aimed at encouraging the wealth of creative writing talent that we know exists in Wales but currently languishes in the doldrums.
The aim is to inspire people to capture life in the present day and to give a voice to a new generation of poets and writers. We are not interested in purely academic types of literature but would much rather see pure raw passion burst onto the creative writing scene in Wales.
Dave has edited an anthology of the first five years winners. To buy a copy click here.
To visit the competition web site -
click here.
Contact
Dave can be contacted on info@david-lewis.co.uk
