#WBOTY23 Children & Young People Award Shortlist: 📚The Mab, edited by @MattBrownAuthor & @EloiseJWilliams (Unbound) 📚The Last Firefox, @Leewhowrites (Penguin Random House Children’s) 📚When the War Came Home, Lesley Parr (Bloomsbury Books UK) #WBOTY23

.KingCon™ 👑, Sophie Buchaillard (@growriter) and Emma Smith-Barton ⚡️ are among 10 writers taking part in Hay Festival's Writers at Work programme for emerging Welsh talent. Read here: buff.ly/3IzUxvS

Thrilled to be part of this group!✨Congratulations, everyone and thank you Hay Festival and Literature Wales - I can't wait! 📚🌞

We are delighted to announce our winners for 2023: 1. Jhalak Prize: Travis for #NoneoftheAbove (Canongate (has left)) 2. Jhalak C&YA Prize: #Danielle Jawando for #WhenOurWorldsCollided (Simon & Schuster UK) CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS! #jhalakprize23

“More than I could have imagined.” - arts.wales/news-jobs-oppo… A lovely film about Writers at Work Hay Festival Thank you Hanan Issa @FrancescaReece Darren Chetty Grug and Brennig!

I can't believe it was a week ago that we were #HayWritersatWork2023 Hay Festival. I'm still buzzing! An amazing experience - I learned so much, pushed myself creatively & made friends for life. So thankful to Dr Tiffany Murray, Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales & Literature Wales for making it all possible❤️

.Louie Stowell UPDATES ONLY NOT REALLY HERE has been named overall winner of The Children’s Book Award 2023 (FCBG) for her book Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good (Walker Books)! Read here: buff.ly/3J4GPkR

Miracles: Books Council of Wales Book of the month! 🙌🙌🙌

As I walk into my therapist’s office, I’m finally ready to answer the question on everyone’s lips… Am I a murderer? We're THRILLED to share the cover for The Perfect Patient: A totally gripping psychological thriller by Luana Lewis! Out 28th September: geni.us/B0C8T6YDSNcover

Many congratulations to the 20 writers on our 24th Award Short List, selected by judge, Tim Craig. And thank you to all the writers on the longlist who have already agreed to be published in our 2023 anthology. Fantastic reads! bathflashfictionaward.com/2023/06/short-… via Bath Flash Fiction

Dysgu Cymraeg? Or know someone who is? Bethan Gwanas🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Siôn Tomos Owen will be holding a creative writing course for Welsh learners next weekend! Any questions about the course? You can e-mail or phone Tŷ Newydd [email protected] / 01766 522 811 tynewydd.wales/course/creativ…

'That was my imagination, doing the work to find someone whose story I could hang my own onto at a time when there were few stories with any South Asian characters in them', Dr Nazneen Ahmed Pathak on the relationship between India & Britain in children's fiction: bit.ly/3NYdUC8

I'm doing a blog for BookTrust about LIFE-CHANGING CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Which books have you seen turn kids into readers? I want all sorts of books (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics etc) especially books that engaged kids who struggled before & kids from minority backgrounds.

Only four days to go until we find out who this year's Wales Book of the Year 2023 winners are! The English-language judges are Mike Parker, Emma Smith-Barton ⚡️, EmilyBurnett, and Kristian Evans. ⭐ Here's a reminder of the shortlist... literaturewales.org/our-projects/w…

The sheep are causing chaos. In gardens. On roofs. Everywhere. My neighbour marched out with her hands on her hips to shoo them into the field. 9 mins later they were back. Now she’s just given up and is standing by her front door taking pictures of them.

We can't believe it's been a whole week since #WBOTY23! It was a wonderful night celebrating some of Wales' most talented authors. A big diolch to @celfcalon for capturing the nights' proceedings so beautifully. 📷✨ The English Language Winners: literaturewales.org/our-projects/w…

Fascinating, unflinching interview with ⁦isabel adonis⁩, who won the creative non-fiction Wales Book of the Year for her astonishing collage of a memoir, And… During the judging process, I read the book four times, and every reading revealed more. mixedmuseum.org.uk/interviews/isa…

Meet our Representing Wales 2023-2024 mentors! 🤩 Each writer is paired with a Mentor chosen by themselves in consultation with Literature Wales. Over the upcoming months, the mentors are on-hand to offer editorial support and bespoke career guidance. literaturewales.org/lw-news/repres…

We've given away EIGHT class sets so far to lucky schools! This week is one of your final chances to win a class set📚️⁠ ⁠ To win The Million Pieces of Neena Gill, share this post and make sure you are following our account before Friday 17th, 6pm.