Thanks to @RGlasbrook for highlighting the impactful screening at The Riverfront. Windrush Cymru Elders

Very much looking forward to being at Caerleon this weekend, chatting to @nicanned about her amazing debut, This Thing of Darkness...

Llongyfarchiadau / Congratulations glynfedwards whose book 'In Orbit' has won the #WBOTY24 Nation.Cymru People's Choice Award! 🎉

Many congratulations glynfedwards 🎉🎉📚 Seren Books Literature Wales Nation.Cymru #WBOTY24

And 9 years on, he we are going strong and Jonathan Edwards going stronger still. And he’s back for #LitCaerleon24 tomorrow. CAN.NOT WAIT. It’s this support from Welsh writers that keeps us going and doing what we love ♥️

We cannot wait to hear you in conversation with @nicanned - tomorrow, 12pm The Priory Caerleon ♥️📚

TOMORROW ♥️ BCwmbran, Toronto, Brutalism, hard hitting edges. and Stray Dogs

6 JULY 4pm: Ben Woolley, writer of The King’s Assassin, talking adaptation of his book, historical research to screen, royal scandal, and Julianne Moore. Limited tickets still available eventbrite.co.uk/e/literature-c…

Brilliant day at Literature Caerleon yesterday. Just so lovely and friendly 📚

So pleased to start the week with this news. First time I’ve ever made the longlist in this competition. Thank you.

Absolutely cracking session from Craig Austin and ttifrap nhoj drahcir on Stray Dogs, Toronto, music, violence and the various sides of the tracks. An NP44 slice of history, right here in NP18.

Not long to go to our Medieval Summer Fayre NewportMedievalShip in partnership with FONS! Free entry, free roadside parking, free family craft activities….find out the story of this incredible piece of Newport’s history and what life was like in Medieval Newport!

Not enough is made of just what an extraordinary publishing house and force of excellence the @ThreeImpostors. Here are 3 of their excellent, excellent writers on top form. Diolch yn fawr, Robert Kingham, Catherine Fisher author ***The Clockwork Crow. and Jon Gower

The big take down! Our volunteers are the best of the best. Thank you, @cwmbranvan

Vintage The Verb Ian McMillan at the Hay Festival. One highlight was Miriam Margolyes OBE' perfectly calculated,completely chilling reading of Browning's 'The Last Duchess'. How powerful Victorian poetry can be. As she said, you may 'skate silkily' over rhyme. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Rob Randel bringing some truths around teaching of reading in CfW on BBC News this morning. Keep it up!

Primary school teacher Rob Randel is spot on. Too many children in Wales are functionally illiterate and cannot access the secondary school curriculum because of poor reading skills. In primary, you learn to read. In secondary, you read to learn. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Very interesting piece here raising some important points and asks challenging questions. We have to strive for better for our children. We can’t leave reading to chance. Bethan Lewis bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Children's reading standards 'a lottery' in Wales bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… ''Teacher Rob Randel said parents were getting "a lottery ticket" for their children's English reading standards without a consistent approach across schools.''

Good to see the the teaching of reading is getting some attention by the media. Schools need better guidance on how to teach reading from Lynne & Vikki. If systematic synthetic phonics is good enough for England, Australia, USA, New Zealand & Singapore, why isn't it good