About
I’m Keith Butler, a writer based in Cardiff, Wales. I write flash fiction, poetry, interactive Twine stories and spoken word pieces, often drawing on memory, ageing, working-class Welsh life, politics and place.
Cardiff Writers began as a home for my creative work, but it has also become a place to gather the different strands of what I make — short fiction, poems, audio pieces, digital zines and experiments in interactive storytelling.
I’m an 80-year-old Creative Writing student at Falmouth University, and I’m interested in how stories can move between page, performance, audio and digital form. Some of the work here is reflective, some satirical, some playful, and some shaped by grief, memory and the ordinary details of daily life.
If you’ve found your way here as a reader, writer or curious browser, welcome. Have a look around.
Where to start
If you’d like to explore the site, you can start with the flash fiction, browse the poetry, try the interactive fiction, or listen to the podcasts. There are also zines and blogs collecting other parts of the work.