Fancy something new for Monty Lit Fest 2025? How about our first Jill Kibble Monty Mini Fest, the chance to meet some brilliant children’s writers and illustrators – and get your children thinking about stories and writing too. Join us on Sunday 8 June when we’ve teamed up with award-winning Welsh children’s publisher, Firefly Press, …
Montgomeryshire is blessed with some of the finest landscape in Wales. From the sea to the English border, across hills and rolling valleys, farmland and wilderness, it’s a precious home to nature and humans alike. We also know that our land is under threat as never before, whether from climate change, threats to biodiversity, rising …
As Wales knows well, borders and barriers come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are physical, can be seen and plotted on a map. Even then, they are far from straightforward, forged as they are by histories that can seem at odds with local culture, language or preference. That’s why borders are metaphorical …
We love a red carpet. This week saw the gala premiere screening of the film, Mr Burton, starring Toby Jones, opening in a hail of five-star reviews at the Reel cinema in Port Talbot. Burton. Port Talbot. This has to be about Richard Burton, yes? To a point, but this is the story of the …
If fiction is your thing, then Monty Lit Fest 2025 is the place to be – because this year we’re delighted to welcome five fiction writers at the very top of their game. Between them, they’ve written novels, short stories, children’s books and screenplays, sold thousands of books and won multiple awards, whether a Costa …
At Monty Lit Fest, we’re all about the stories. So what could be more fitting than to celebrate the launch of our 2025 programme with a night of storytelling. And if those stories are told in words and music by Welsh folk legends, Mair Tomos Ifans and Sioned Webb, we should count ourselves blessed indeed. …