Hazell Ward
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Hazell Ward

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Hazell Ward lives in Wrexham, a Welsh working-class town where, any Saturday during football season, you will see thousands of passionate football fans and a fair few Hollywood A-listers. For many years an adult education teacher, she went on to work for a charitable organization in an area of economic deprivation, working with young adults to encourage them to aspire to further education or employment, and to do her part to help them achieve those aspirations.
Taking inspiration from her young mentees, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and loved it so much she is now working for a PhD.
She credits her mum with instilling in her a love of reading and a fierce desire to be a writer. The house she grew up in had lots of books, lots of love, and, always, a sink full of dirty dishes. There could be no better upbringing for a writer than having a mother who was always lost in a book.
Hazell has four grown-up children and a wonderful granddaughter, who take up most of her spare time. She also plays the piano (badly). She was short-listed for the Margery Allingham Short Story Competition in 2021, and won the Crime Writer's Association Short Story dagger in 2023 for her story, Cast a Long Shadow, published by Honno Press.
The Game is Murder is her debut novel.

Welsh Version
Mae Hazell Ward yn byw yn ardal Wrecsam, dinas dosbarth gweithiol yng Nghymru lle, ar unrhyw ddydd Sadwrn yn ystod y tymor pêl-droed, mi welwch chi filoedd o gefnogwyr pêl-droed angerddol ac ambell seren Hollywood. Am flynyddoedd lawer, bu’n athrawes addysg oedolion, cyn mynd ymlaen i weithio i sefydliad elusennol mewn ardal o amddifadedd economaidd. Yn y swydd hon, bu’n gweithio gydag oedolion ifanc i'w hannog i anelu at addysg bellach neu gyflogaeth, gan wneud ei rhan i'w helpu i gyflawni'r dyheadau hynny.
Gan gymryd ysbrydoliaeth gan ei mentoreion ifanc, cwblhaodd Hazell radd MA mewn Ysgrifennu Creadigol ym Mhrifysgol Fetropolitan Manceinion. Mi wnaeth hi fwynhau’r profiad gymaint fel ei bod hi bellach yn anelu am radd PhD.
Mae'n canmol ei mam am feithrin ynddi gariad at ddarllen ac awydd brwd i fod yn awdur. Roedd gan y tŷ y cafodd ei magu ynddo lawer o lyfrau, llawer o gariad, a sinc llawn llestri budr! Pa fagwraeth well i awdur na chael mam a oedd byth a beunydd â’i thrwyn mewn llyfr?
Mae gan Hazell bedwar o blant sydd bellach yn oedolion, ac un wyres fach hyfryd, sy'n cymryd y rhan fwyaf o'i hamser rhydd. Mae hi hefyd yn canu’r piano (yn wael). Cyrhaeddodd y rhestr fer ar gyfer Cystadleuaeth Stori Fer Margery Allingham yn 2021, ac enillodd ddagr Stori Fer Cymdeithas yr Awduron Trosedd yn 2023 am ei stori, ‘Cast a Long Shadow’, a gyhoeddwyd gan Wasg Honno.
The Game is Murder yw ei nofel gyntaf.
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