Festival Programme 2025

All author events at the Festival and the poetry evening are FREE to attend. There is a small fee of £5 for the writing workshops

Poetry Evening Thursday 30th October 7 – 10pm

An evening of poetry and music at Deli Lazzaro, Market Street, Aberaeron.
Free entry, drinks and snacks available to buy.
With guest poets and open mic – contact us to book an open mic slot.

Saturday 1st November

Main Hall

9.30 Doors open
10.00 Official Opening
10.30 Opening Address – Menna Elfyn
11.30 Book Launch: Salmon to Hedgehog EMJ Foster
12.00 Drama – Memory by Geraint Lewis
12.30 Crime CymruSarah Ward, Fflur Dafydd & Sue McCormick
with Dr Niki Brewer
1.30 Book Launch: ParchMenna Elfyn
2.15 More Scarecrow Than PirateKaren Gemma Brewer
3.00 Birdland a I’w Ddiwedd Oer Jon Gower with Geraint Lewis
3.30 Weird Wales: Witches & the GothicMari Ellis Dunning & Alex Hubbard
4.15 Attention All ShippingKathy Biggs
4.45 Extra Time
5.00 Close …..

To book a workshop please click on the link for individual workshops below.

Committee Room

Writing Workshop BOOK HERE
History as a Laboratory – experimenting with sources
with Alex Hubbard
11.30-1.00

Writing Workshop BOOK HERE
Turning the Pages – How to keep your reader transfixed
with Sarah Ward
2.30-4.00

Sunday 2nd November

Main Hall

10.00 Doors open
10.15 Acoustic Original Songs – Karen Gemma Brewer
10.45 Dylan Iorwerth gyda Grwp Darllen Dyffryn Arth
11.30 Book Launch Moon Base One Jemma L. King
12.00 Drama – Cof gan Geraint Lewis
12.30 Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder?
Aled Eirug with Elin Jones
1.15 The Nature of MythMathew Yeomans & Claire Fayers
with Sarah Ward
2.00 There She Goes, My Beautiful WorldGosia Buzzanca
2.30 Book Launch: PulseCynan Jones with Karen Gemma Brewer
3.30 Close

Committee Room

Writing Workshop BOOK HERE
Retelling Tales
with Claire Fayers
11.00-12.30

Poetry Writing Workshop BOOK HERE
Finding Your Roots – the space between words and worlds
with Kathy Miles
1.15-2.45

Programme subject to change

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