The organisations celebrating Roald Dahl 100 that will be funded though Chapter 1’s Invent your Event have been announced by Literature Wales. They are: Hay Festival; Oriel Davies, Galeri Caernarfon, the National Eisteddfod of Wales, The Urdd National Eisteddfod, North Wales International Music Festival, Spread the Word festival, Swansea International Festival, Denbighshire County Council, RawFfest, and Beyond the Border storytelling festival.
Website:www.roalddahl100.wales
This year’s Althorp Literary Festival takes place between 30 June and 3 July and has the theme of ‘originality’. It is the largest event in the festival’s history, and authors taking part include Bill Bryson, scriptwriter Andrew Davies, Brian Blessed, James Naughtie, John Suchet and Paula Byrne.