Ffeil / File IAA/1 - Coal: An Anthology of Mining (Seren Books, 1997)

Anglo-Welsh novelist, academic and translator Siân James was born in Coed-y-Bryn, Ceredigion. Her third novel A Small Country (1979) is regarded as a classic of Anglo-Welsh literature, whilst her short-story collection Not Singing Exactly (1996) won the English-language category in Wales Book of the Year, the first book by a woman to do so. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%A2n_James_(novelist)). See also, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/09/sian-james-obituary.

Poet, writer, translator and lecturer Christopher Meredith was born in Tredegar and studied at Aberystwyth University and Swansea University. In 1993, he was appointed lecturer in, and subsequently Professor of, Creative Writing at the then University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Meredith)

Gregynog Hall, near Newtown, Powys is famed as the former home of art collectors and benefactors Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. In 1960, the Hall was left by Margaret Davies to the University of Wales. Gregynog is now run by a Charitable Trust, hosting conferences and events and celebrating nature and the arts. (https://gregynog.org/)