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- This wasn’t on our 2024 bingo card! @LewisHamilton’s @Burberry outfit for the Met Gala this year was inspired by John Ystumllyn - Wales’ first Black gardener, and features a poem by our very own Children’s Laureate Wales, @alexwhartonpoet! 🤯🙌
- 🌟Wales Book of the Year 2024 Winners🌟 Sarn Helen by Tom Bullough (@grantabooks) is this year’s Wales Book of the Year! Congratulations to Mari George who won the Welsh-language title with Sut i Ddofi Corryn (@sebracymru) literaturewales.org/lw-news/tom-bu… #WBOTY24
- The children of Wales have a new laureate! We’re delighted to announce that the new Children’s Laureate Wales is Eloise Williams. #LaureateWales @Laureate_Wales @Eloisejwilliams
- As announced on @BBCRadioWales this evening, Literature Wales is delighted to share the Shortlist for the English-language Wales Book of the Year Awards 2021. Congratulations to all the writers and their publishers! #WBOTY21 literaturewales.org/lw-news/announ…
- 📢🎆ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢🎆 🥁Drum roll please! It’s a huge pleasure to announce that the next Children’s Laureate Wales 2023-2025 will be Alex Wharton! Huge congratulations, @alexwhartonpoet! 🥳🎉 literaturewales.org/lw-news/alex-w… @Laureate_Wales
- 🌟📣 National Poet of Wales 📣🌟 Literature Wales is thrilled to announce that Hanan Issa, a poet whose “words are like ribbons weaving languages and cultures together" will be taking on the role for 2022-25: literaturewales.org/lw-news/hanan-… @hanan_issa_
- Introducing our incredible cohort of writers! Discover more about Representing Wales, our new programme for writers of colour, on our website: literaturewales.org/our-projects/r…
- Did you know that reading can reduce your stress levels by up to 68%? Plus, people who read books regularly are on average more satisfied with life, happier, and more likely to feel that the things they do in life are worthwhile. #WorldBookNight
- Literature Wales has today announced the appointment of two new poet laureates. The poet, actor and multidisciplinary artist from Newport, @connor_allen92, takes on the role of Children’s @Laureate_Wales: literaturewales.org/lw-news/connor… #NationalPoetryDay
- WINNER Wales Book of the Year 2023 Children & Young People Award When the War Came Home – Lesley Parr (@kidsbloomsbury) #WBOTY23
- 📣NEWS🌟 We’re pleased to share the news that Leusa Llewelyn and Claire Furlong have been appointed joint-Chief Executives of Literature Wales. Llongyfarchiadau mawr @LeusaFflur and @claireafurlong, our new Artistic Director and Executive Director! literaturewales.org/lw-news/litera…
- Shoutout to our Children’s Laureate! Connor Allen’s two-year tenure as @Laureate_Wales has come to an end after two years of empowering children and young people. He has encouraged pupils across Wales to use their voice and find the poet within them.
