It offers a critique, by Welsh and Wales-based writers, of various social and cultural aspects of Wales.

[1] The Wales Arts Review was founded in 2012 by Editors Gary Raymond, Phil Morris, Dean Lewis and Dylan Moore as a successor to the literary magazine The Raconteur.

Founded on the principal of providing a community of writers and artists a high quality critical coverage of the arts in Wales, its core function is to build a platform for a new generation of Welsh critics to engage with the wider world through writing about and vigorously debating books, theatre, film, music, the visual arts and the media.

This reportage series also has included first hand accounts of the Gezi protests.

[7] Furthermore, Wales Arts Review has established various creative writing collaborations including with the Rhys Davies Trust to promote short story telling in Wales.