Right from the moment that we launched this year’s Festival with an evening of storytelling, it promised to be loads of fun – and so it proved. Thank you to everyone who came along to help make our 2025 Festival a weekend to remember. Once again, there were so many highlights and special moments: readers …
It’s here! Monty Lit Fest 2025 takes place this weekend, 6th – 8th June, in the beautiful town of Montgomery. We’re all set for a fabulous weekend of bookish fun. It’s the chance to meet and hear from authors about their books and their work, have a go yourself at our writers’ workshops, watch the …
Less than a week to go, everybody. But before our eagerly-anticipated writers arrive, let’s take a breath and say a big thank you to all the many people who make Monty Lit Fest possible. The town of Montgomery is very much part of the Festival’s story and its success. And, once again this year, it’ll …
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the phrase “literary festival” can sound a bit, well, pompous. That’s why, at Monty Lit Fest, we want to challenge the idea that book festivals are only for a certain ‘type’ of person. Instead, we firmly believe that they should be of – and for – …
It could be said that every country has an art form which occupies a particular prominence in that nation’s psyche. We could all draw up, and enjoy contesting, our own lists: Italian frescos, perhaps or French Gothic cathedrals being more than mere accidental flowerings which might have happened anywhere. We Welsh have a relationship with poetry …
Journeys have always been an integral part of storytelling. So much so that, back in the 1940s, Joseph Campbell identified a story template for the elements needed for a cracking tale known as The Hero’s Journey. We need a hero, of course, and a quest; a journey into the unknown with plenty of obstacles along …
Anyone who read or saw Hilary Mantell’s Wolf Hall series, centred on the political life of Thomas Cromwell, may well ask – do they never learn? There will always be someone or something out to get the powerful, be it their own hubristic drive, the national interest, natural justice or a simple case of survival. …
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 …