Gareth Evans-Jones wins National Eisteddfod Prose Medal

Nation.Cymru staff Anglesey-born writer and academic Gareth Evans-Jones has won the 2026 National Eisteddfod Prose Medal after judges praised the “playfulness” and “inventiveness” of his work. The Bangor University lecturer took the prize for his entry under the pseudonym Isha, emerging from a field of 28 entries which judges described as being of an exceptionally…