What a weekend we had at Monty Lit Fest 2024! We’re delighted that so many of you joined us for a very special weekend that will live long in the memory. There were so many highlights and special moments: from meeting our authors to music and art; from cake, tapas and pizzas to storytelling and …
It’s here! Monty Lit Fest 2024 takes place this weekend, 7th-9th June, in the beautiful town of Montgomery. It’s the chance to meet and hear from authors about their books and their work, have a go yourself at our writers’ workshops or just join us for a pint at our Late Lounge or Saturday night …
It’s just one week to go to Monty Lit Fest 2024 and it’s time to pay tribute to our communities, without whom the Festival simply couldn’t take place. We’re not known as the friendly Festival for nothing. Volunteer led and run, we rely on the support and goodwill of so many people in the communities …
Fiction is special. It has the power to entertain, to shock, to thrill, to take us away from the every day into the world of the imagination. We’ve always celebrated fiction in all its wonders and forms at Monty Lit Fest and 2024 is no exception. Here are just three highlights to look forward to. Award-winning …
Music, poetry and prose can be a match made in heaven, a match we want to celebrate to the rafters at this year’s Monty Lit Fest. We also like a literary festival first and we’re pretty sure that we’re the first literary festival to offer our very own version of a Cymanfa Ganu – a …
We all know that the best stories have a hero and a quest. There will be that call to adventure that kicks everything off, our hero will find allies and encounter obstacles along the way but will ultimately return transformed, whether triumphant or in some way changed. It’s a formula that underpins everything from the …
History, as we know, is full of unreliable witnesses. The stories that are passed down to us often have more to do with who is doing the telling – and who has the power – than what really happened or who was really involved. Much is lost in the telling; some stories are simply never …
We know that words and language matter – we’re a literary festival, after all. And, in Wales, we have the privilege of a native language that’s more than holding its own despite centuries of challenge from the global lingua franca that is English. Whether we’re Welsh speakers, learners or can only manage the odd Bore …
At Monty Lit Fest, we love writing that features a strong sense of place or well-developed setting. It can make all the difference between simply enjoying a piece of writing and being totally immersed in it. Whether a real geographical location or a fictional universe created by the author, the vivid use of physical landscape, …
Our love-hate relationship with the dark has been a constant throughout human history, whether we’re celebrating its glories or shrinking from things that go bump in the night. This year’s Monty Lit Fest features two sessions that look at the shifting nature of darkness, both literally or metaphorically. For writer, Jacqueline Yallop, darkness is endlessly …