Our Impact

Tŷ Newydd is here for writers. Our day-to-day work is to provide high-quality creative writing courses in English and Welsh to audiences from all ages, abilities and backgrounds.

Our writers go on to publish their work, to win competitions, to perform their work in festivals and events, and to set up classes and writing groups of their own to educate others in their communities.

Our residential courses offer total immersion, with workshops, readings and one-to-one mentoring sessions taking place throughout the week. For some, spending time in the cosy library until the early hours discussing poetry is what makes their stay special. For others, it’s getting up early to walk down to the beach before workshops. Whatever are your experiences, you’ll leave with the skills, ideas and energy to take your writing to the next level. You can hear varied accounts of the Tŷ Newydd experience from different individuals on our testimonial page.

In addition to our annual programme of courses, we organise and run at least four free-of-charge strategic courses every year specifically for Wales-based writers of underrepresented backgrounds.  These courses include our annual Cwrs Olwen for young, emerging writers working through the medium of Welsh, our Welsh-language LGBTQA+ weekend retreat run in partnership with Llyfrau Lliwgar, our digital Reinventing the Protagonist course run in partnership with Disability Arts Cymru, amongst others. You can read more about these courses, their impact on participants, and information about future call-outs over on Literature Wales’ project page.  projects in the local community, Gwynedd and north Wales. We have close links with Llanystumdwy’s primary school, with the whole school visiting the centre multiple times a year. The aim of these projects is to use literature to improve health and wellbeing, a mission that is central to all of Literature Wales’ work.