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Multidisciplinary Artist | @RiverfrontArts Associate Artist | @JerwoodArts LIVE WORK FUND 21 | Children’s Laureate Wales 21-23 | All views my own
Newport, Wales
Joined April 2015
Not every day you get a school library named after you 🔥🔥🔥 and see the impact of your poetry and work as @Laureate_Wales . I’m beyond honoured that St Joseph’s High School in Newport bestowed that upon me . This Newport kid has done good ❤️❤️. #LifeOfALaureate
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A wise woman told me yesterday.“your words have got you here” . That felt humbling as this kid from Newport was at Windsor Castle to celebrate the works of Shakespeare . ❤️
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Soooo I think I may be the new CHILDREN’S LAUREATE OF WALES . 🙌🏽🔥🏴👇🏼.
Literature Wales has today announced the appointment of two new poet laureates. The poet, actor and multidisciplinary artist from Newport, @connor_allen92, takes on the role of Children’s @Laureate_Wales:. #NationalPoetryDay
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Not a bad start to 2021 . I’m a RISING STAR OF WALES 🔥👑.
@FireflyPress We are pleased to announce that both @connor_allen92 and Bev Lennon, two children’s poets who show exceptional promise, have been selected to receive the 2021 Rising Stars Wales Award. Congratulations, both!
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Absolute madness to be 1 of just 3 finalists for this year's Imison Award 2023 for my radio version of Making Of A Monster . Buzzing and honoured that my story has resonated so much ❤️.
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So the cats outta the bag on this one!! 🔥🔥🔥. I’m a @JerwoodArts #LiveWorkFundAwardee!!. Say whaaaaaaaaaaat 😍. Massive thanks to @JerwoodArts, @pork_pies & @juliathomas80.
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LAUNCH DAY TODAY.Dominoes is here!!. Excitement is on a next one!.Mad love to everyone that is going to pick up these pages & read & sit with them. It’s yours. Be gentle with it .Be delicate . A piece of me is with this book. ❤️. Thank you @homeofpolar for the quote!
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❤️. #LegacyOfALaureate.
Shoutout to our Children’s Laureate!. Connor Allen’s two-year tenure as @Laureate_Wales has come to an end after two years of empowering children and young people. He has encouraged pupils across Wales to use their voice and find the poet within them.
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Check out this article. Theatre in Newport is BOOMING! 🎭🔥.
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Soo. Tickets for my DEBUT play dropped today and I became AN ASSOCIATE ARTIST of my hometown theatre @RiverfrontArts . Safe to say today is a goooooood 🔥👑🙌🏽.
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ITS OFFICIAL!! 🙌🏽🔥.BBC Welsh Voice 19/20 ☑️. Not bad for a kid from Hammond Drive 🤓.
BBC Writersroom Wales has announced the selected writers for Welsh Voices 19/20. This talented group will take part in a year-long programme with @bbcwritersroom to develop their skills and broaden their experiences. Read about them here: @ShermanTheatre
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So what started off as me wanted to gift my old high school a literary shelf to help students with finding monologues has turned into quite a collection meaning I can gift so many schools in Newport a literary shelf . For reference … I’m 6’2” and it’s almost as tall as me! 🔥🔥
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Last night was one of the wildest .Being able to take lil man to an awards ceremony and take home the award is beyond anything I could’ve dreamed of when I first started this journey .So I have to thank @Soc_of_Authors the judging panel & The Imison family for the recognition
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Absolutely stoked I got @Arts_Wales_ funding for my R&D 🙌🏿🤜🏿 Let’s make some theatre. Thanks @KMJwriter @pork_pies @takingflightco @Chelsey_Gillard @NTWtweets @ShelterCymru and everyone else who helped. (Y’all know who you are) Couldn’t have done it without you all ❤️
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Huge shoutout to @Arts_Wales_ for giving me a stabilisation grant and investing in a young Kings development. Mad love to everyone who continues to support me and monitor my progress. From the bottom of my ❤️ It’s appreciated. #TheBlowUpBegins #MixedRaceTalent.
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When you have actual books on a bookshelf at #HayFestival2023 🔥🔥among other boss authors 🤯. Not bad for a kid from Hammond Drive 🙌🏽🙌🏽
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Not a bad way to start Monday morning with a Radio Times pick of the week for my radio play #Monster which is out on THURSDAY!! . Mad love to @morris_siwan @jailen_o @mccurdykev @ClaireCage1 @dickjohns66 @ShaunaG_x @houseofgabin ❤️❤️
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🙌🏽🔥 Yasssssssssss!.
TEN - A call out for pitches for short monologues elicited a huge response. Ten selected pitches will now be developed into monologues which will be self-filmed by actors. The selection represents a brilliant line-up of established and emerging Welsh and Wales-based writers. 6/6
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Happy #WindrushDay to the generation who came here and laid solid foundations for predecessors to flourish . I’m a bi-product of that strength . Big up my family tree ❤️🇯🇲
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Today as Children’s Laureate of Wales I sent an open letter to @lynne_neagle regarding children’s mental health and how more needs to be done to safeguard our future leaders, healers, teachers and everything in between. Read more below 👇🏼.
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SOOOOOOO…. I am now, officially, a published writer in THREE books. 2 monologue books and 1 poetry. All love to @RikkiBB @john_r_gordon @WeRTeamAngelica & @LucentDreaming.Still pinching myself . Thank you for believing in my voice . Not a bad week and it’s only Wednesday!
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LETS GOOOOO. ALL OF WALES IS A STAGE . 🏴.
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! 🏴 What better way to mark the day than premiering our short film 'All of Wales is a Stage' written and performed by the brilliant poet @connor_allen92. Commissioned as part of our Creative Industries Cluster Hubs project, funded by @ahrcpress and @DCMS.
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What I find the funniest is that all these institutions and organisations that are remaining silent will be some of the first to want my next hit play or want me acting in thier shows. Silence speaks volume . You want my talent but don’t want me. Don’t want my community.
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I need a female assistant director to make my #WorkingNotBegging team more baddass 🔥👑. If you fit the below description then please, please, PLEASE apply 👇🏼. #AssistantDirector #WorkingNotBegging #NewWriting #Newport.
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Beyond crazy moment to be back on a @hayfestival stage yesterday in front of teachers and pupils holding copies of Miracles and reading along with me 🚪. From the bottom of my heart … THANK YOU . 🫶🏼. #StuffOfDreams
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‘New mural created to dispel myths about teens in care’.👇🏼👇🏼.
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I wanna gift my old schools drama department a bunch of plays so they have a mini literary department there to help the next gen of performers with ideas for monologues and all that when exams roll around. Any help or any donations of plays will be greatly appreciated 🔥🙏🏽.
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Super excited for this!! 🔥.November … a monster is coming…. Tickets finally on sale for my debut show.
Now on sale: The Making of a Monster.📆 9 – 19 November 2022. Coming to the Weston Studio in November, The Making of a Monster is a grime-theatre mashup by actor, writer and current Children's Laureate of Wales, @connor_allen92.
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Blessed to start this journey 🫶🏼.An exciting next couple of months 🔥. #Explode.
We are proud to announce that @connor_allen92, @accordingtofitz and @MariIzzard are our Explode participants – our programme for established writers. Find out more:
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Well @hayfestival was a bit surreal!. To be at the biggest book festival in the world and see my books on a shelf next to authors like Malorie Blackman and Kit De Waal is an absolute pinch me moment . Let alone performing and doing events too
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‘Newport poet Connor Allen unveils mural for foster children’. Check the article out below . 👇🏼👇🏼 .
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Hi Ho Hi Ho it’s off to @edfringe I go 🎭😎.Massive thanks to @Arts_Wales_ for picking me as part of the Seeding For The Future Fund. The futures looking bright 🙌🏽. #WalesInEdinburgh #NextGen #Opportunity.
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THE MAKING OF A MONSTER is out now for you to listen. This is years of grafting and analysing myself and these words and now I place my story in your hands (and ears) .So be gentle with it and enjoy it . Much love x.
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Aaaaaaaannnnndd…That’s a wrap!! . @BBCRadio4 Audio script recorded and in the bag 🔥🔥. Coming soon …. #StWoolos
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You never realise you been on a journey until you stop and look behind and see all the footprints that have led you to this moment. Last 3 years have been crazy ngl but chatting to @SamRPortillo really made me reflect on the past 16 years. Mad love .
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Today was a special day . 3 years training .16K Student Loan/debt.6 years grafting since graduating .Annnnnnnd .I finally joined the elite acting club . I WAS A TREE . #OnTheCV #AreYouAnActorIfYouHaventBeenATree.#EliteActingClub #ClubTree
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So…. It’s not been a bad week as @Laureate_Wales .Traveled 445 miles .and reached 410 children . Empowering the next generation one session at a time . #LifeOfALaureate.
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Week 2 begins . #AMonsterIsComing… 🚪🙌🏽🔥. Shoutout @OraineJohnson @rODIUMrECORDS @Gambit_Ace and Rolex Harry
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Well F*** me . #OnBearRidge was exceptional. And don’t even @ me . The writing, the cast and performances, the set, the music, the direction . EVERYTHING. 🔥🔥.
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A true honour to work with those amazing young people to create this mural 🫶🏼🔥every single word is theirs . So let’s listen to their voices . Shoutout @foster_wales and @wearecowshed too ❤️.
‘There’s a stereotype, it’s just trouble we make’ 💬. Care-experienced teenagers have worked with former children’s poet laureate @connor_allen92 and artist Peaceful Progress to create a thought-provoking mural. 📍Brackla Street, Bridgend, CF31 1BZ.👇
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Little snippet of my piece ‘What being alive in 2023 meant to me’. Mad love to @daiwoolridge for featuring me in the #UrbanCrofters event before Christmas to do a little set . #Poetry
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Arrived at #HayFestival2023 and straight in at the BBC Marquee tent recording an episode for Life Changing . Let’s start this week off with a bang 🔥🙌🏽
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Nobody and nothing is perfect . I’m the first to admit that but ever since the early iteration of my career I’ve been blessed to have support and guidance from this company and for this lil kid from a Newport council estate that’s huge!. I remain hopeful. All we have is hope.
An open call to Arts Council Wales (ACW) for conversation.We welcome ACW’s proposed review of English language theatre provision in Wales. However, we challenge the decision to dismantle Wales’ English language national theatre before this review takes place.
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It’s begun .Part 2 …. Sharing tomorrow of the script so far.DM if you wanna come along. @ShermanTheatre .3pm . #TFOAM
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LETS GOOOOO 🙌🏽🙌🏽. Connor going international 🏴🇮🇪.
The Weft Studio 2023 gets underway today! ⚡️. This week, Connor Allen joins the Weft Studio programme as an international mentor. Funded by the @artscouncil_ie and supported by @ieBritish & @communityfound. Learn more about this exciting programme: .
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PUBLICATION DAY!! 🔥🔥🔥. #Miracles is here!. Now every child & young person can be empowered to believe THEY ARE MIRACLES 🚪❤️
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🔥🔥.
★★★★ Review: The Making of a Monster – Startling grime-theatre mash-up that’s as emotionally raw as it is playful and imaginative
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My love for this woman knows no bounds. Growing up I wasn’t easy to manage so just THANK YOU . Thank you for being patient with me .Thank you for being BOTH Mum and Dad. Thank you for never giving up on me. Just thank you for being you. #SingleMums #ShoutoutToAllTheMums
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Bunch of the best miracles I could ever have the pleasure of meeting . From the bottom of my ❤️. THANK YOU.
Our doors have been opened by a true inspiration ❤️@connor_allen92 thank you for believing in us @BridgendCBC @CSC_Cymraeg @SiarterIaithCSC @CSCJES @MaurerMathias @Addysg_Cymraeg
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ITS HERE!!! .OPENING WEEK 🔥. Now the hard work pays off . Let’s get it @rODIUMrECORDS @OraineJohnson @Gambit_Ace @emmaelsaevans @KrystalsLowe @_leoflint.
Gassed that the show that I’ve been directing by poet Laurette wales @connor_allen92 opens this week! Making Of A Monster ! It’s fucking sick. Feat @Gambit_Ace @OraineJohnson Nothing like it .Don’t miss out.
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Beyond blessed to have written 2 monologues for #LIT and #Common . Man’s about to have his writing published! And his name on a book alongside other sick writers 🔥🔥.
Coming soon! Dynamic new monologue anthologies from @WeRTeamAngelica @RikkiBB - launch events tba very shortly!
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Have a read of my latest blog .The first in a series of life lessons i'll be writing about. I'd really appreciate it. Also have a look at my new site whilst your at it 🙂.
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Can we just take a moment to acknowledge the fact that @NTWtweets and @HijinxTheatre took over the motherf***ing Millennium Stadium 🤯🤩 . Just let that sink in for a sec . #MissionControl #CongratsAll #HolyShit.
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Massive love and shoutout to @EmmaHarding01 @morris_siwan @ShaunaG_x @jailen_o @houseofgabin @mccurdykev @ClaireCage1 @dickjohns66 for being a part of my @BBCRadio4 piece and bringing my words to life . It’s been a fun filled time in the studio. ❤️🥰🙌🏽
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Get tickets for the launch of my DEBUT poetry collection 🔥❤️.
Following on from his win at the #BBCAudioDramaAwards 2023, you can now sign up to attend the launch of @connor_allen92's debut poetry collection 'Dominoes' at @RiverfrontArts this Weds April 19th. Tickets are limited so register now.
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A wicked discussion last night with great company ❤️🙌🏽 .All the love to @_StevenKavuma @dellahill25 @ElisaGuerraCruz @charwilliamsOBE . WE DID IT 🔥🔥. #HayFestival2023
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After many months of collecting plays, Today. I was finally able to gift the literary shelf to the drama department at @LliswerryHigh .Meaning the next generation of artistic talent from there can have accessible and great quality plays and monologues to choose from! . ❤️❤️
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To every person who came to #TheMakingOfAMonster .Showed it love, commented, .all the above . Thank you . From the bottom of my ❤️.THANK YOU.
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. and congratulations to Newport's own @connor_allen92 (here with his "little man") who received the Imison Award for #themakingofamonster produced by Emma Harding @BBCCymruWales. 🥳🎉🏆💥💜😃
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❤️.Always love!.
Love that Connor! The importance of focusing on “the essence of World Book Day” #LocalTalent #RfP @BBCWales @connor_allen92 @ClythaPrimary
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Huge shoutout and mad love to @NTWtweets & @EsmeeFairbairn for awarding me a Time=Money Bursary! 🔥🔥🙌🏽. Exciting things coming . #TheBlowUpBegins.
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Every days a school day 🙌🏽🔥 . #AlwaysLearning.
We're delighted that first-time directors @Connor_allen92 and Yasmin Begum @punkistani93 are joining our Heart of Cardiff team, working alongside @aliceeklund, @MDholmquist, @jacifanmoore, and our Artistic Director @joelukemurphy1.
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Over the next 2 weeks thanks to @NTWtweets imma be at @RiverfrontArts exploring my ideas for my next play . If any creatives (at any stage of your careers) wanna swing by to chat and see what I’m up to please feel free . #DoorsOpen #NewWriting #AbsentFather #Identity
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I’m proof that second chances exist and you can do better. Thanks to everyone whose been with me on this journey. Whose bought tickets to my events, bought my books, gave me your time . I see it and appreciate it all. The journeys just beginning. We move 🔥🙌🏽.
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End of week 4!!.Times flying .Between a school visit for BHM, another monster poster taking over @theCentre and a radio wales appearance it’s been a good week . The monsters approaching fast! . #TheMakingOfAMonster
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Massive shoutout and love to @RikkiBB for coming and running LOYALTY’s session 2 and bringing the warmth and positivity that only HE could ❤️. Thank you for inspiring us as a collective. #LOYALTY.#InspiringTalent .#WeCan #WeWill
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Radio 4 as we speak …. THE AWARD WINNING MAKING OF A MONSTER 🙌🏽. LETS GOOOOOOOO 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.
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This 👇🏼 (That’s the tweet).
The Making of a Monster - a winner of the 100th BBC Audio Drama Awards. Read more here . #drama #theatre #BBCAudioDramaAwards . @connor_allen92 @bbcwritersroom @BBCRadioDrama
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My heart! 🥹.The world needs more Connie’s. Inspiration through and through. 🚪.
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🙏🏽.Blessed to be on an awesome list 🔥🔥.LETS GOOOOO.
Announcing our commissioned artists 📢. In partnership with @MonmouthshireCC, @NewportCouncil and @RCTCouncil, we recently announced an open call for artists to produce a piece of work on the theme of local creativity, community and innovation. We now confirmed the twelve
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End of week 3 for #TheMakingOfAMonster working with the best team @Gambit_Ace @OraineJohnson @rODIUMrECORDS @emmaelsaevans @theCentre and man’s got a banner hanging from the ceiling to cap it all off!!🔥🔥. Strap in …. And let’s goooo
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Authors matter Episode 2 is out now . Utterly lush chat with @CaroSanderson who is an absolute legend . Check it out ❤️.
"We should all write more." 💯. Poet @connor_allen92 shares how he gets children to express themselves creatively in his role as @Laureate_Wales 🙌. Authors' Matters ep 2 is out now:
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LETS GOOOOOO! 🔥🔥🔥👑👑🙌🏽🙌🏽. Beyond buzzing to be on a list with so many talented mofos.
. who have submitted their work to us. Congratulations to all the writers for their entries. The names of those through to the next round can be found by visiting
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I now have a pro Zoom account so if anyone needs to use it (free of charge of course!) for rehearsals, sharing’s, catch ups etc . Just holla . It’s yours 👊🏽.
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Tomorrow afternoon 👇🏼.
Next week's #CreuCymruConference22 afternoon panel session is going to be a great one! We will be announcing the invited speakers throughout this week. First up, we're looking forward to welcoming @connor_allen92 🙌
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What an amazing time I’ve had at @hayfestival over the last 10 days - felt so lucky to be among so many brilliantly talented authors, writers and meet so many lovely people who came to my events and bought books. You’re all incredible ❤️.
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Cats out of the bag 👇🏼. Thanks @LitWales 🙌🏽🔥.
We’re pleased to announce the names of the writers commissioned following our recent call-out for engaging literary content and projects for audiences:
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Tomorrow night . FIRST TIME EVER . 8pm . @Lepub . Grab a pint and listen to me perform Dominoes . In its entirety
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When someone believes in you and your potential there’s no limit to the possibilities ❤️🙌🏽.
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So amazing to be able to go back to my old primary school and give books to all the children who have written a poem in #Miracles . Published authors at 9/10 years old. Absolute legends and what a bunch of miracles.
How lucky are we to have had a visit from the most amazing role model, who inspires everyone he meets. The Welsh children’s poet laureate. We are so proud of everything that you do ❤️@connor_allen92
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DRAMA OF THE WEEK 🔥❤️.
Every Friday, the Drama of the Week podcast brings you a new BBC audio drama. This week it's The Making of a Monster - a powerful autobiographical drama by Welsh Children's Laureate @connor_allen92 Sign up below for a weekly delivery of brilliant stories.
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