26-04-2025
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- Powys County Times
Special guests attending 2025 Powys literature festival
This year's Montgomery Literature Festival will also include a mini-festival aimed at children and young people.
As Montgomeryshire pupils return to school after the Easter break, the annual Powys literature festival has announced that a number of children's authors will be festival as part of Monty Mini Fest.
The Mini Fest takes place in Montgomery on Sunday, June 8, the last day of the weekend's main festival.
Guests include TV news broadcaster, Lucy Owen, who will be appearing along with Rebecca Harry the illustrator of her new book for 5-8 year olds, The Sea House.
Older primary school age children can also look forward to meeting Mid Wales author of The Sleeping Stones, Beatrice Wallbank and hear her inspirations for writing magical stories, sparking ideas for young writers to think about where the magic happens.
Also visiting will be Claire Fayers, shortlisted for her second Tir na N'Og prize among her other awards, this time for Welsh Giants, Ghosts & Goblins.
Cyndy Hymphreys and Georgia Dickinson will be at the festival to host a special storytime session for under five-year-olds.
The mini festival has been named the Jill Kibble Monty Mini Fest in honour of a Montgomery's favourite resident who passed away last year.
Describing the namesake of the Mini fest, a Montgomery Literature Festival spokesperson said: 'A community dynamo, and a dedicated supporter of Montgomeryshire Literary Festival, Jill is very much missed.
'The organisers of the main Monty Lit Fest hope that this new venture will inspire young readers and writers.'
While the Mini Fest is taking place on the last day of the main festival, during the week before pupils at Montgomery Church in Wales School will also be visited by another very special guest of the main festival, appearing as a 'Secret Reader'.
A spokesperson for the festival added: 'We're not telling but if you want to try and guess, take a look at the programme on where you can also find full details of the Mini Fest.'
Tickets for the festival are on sale via the website, the Montgomery Bookshop, the Ivy Cafe & Post office, Montgomery, as well as the website.'
