Countdown to the Tir na n-Og Awards 2022

Feb 10, 2022

We’ve started the countdown to the Tir na n-Og Awards 2022 – celebrating the very best in children’s books in Wales each year. This year’s judges for the Welsh and English awards have read through all the submissions, and we have given them the almost impossible task...

Lydia Bundy

Feb 3, 2022

Hello! My name is Lydia and I am a newly qualified primary school teacher specialising in autism. I grew up in the south Wales valleys before I moved to Loughborough University to complete my master’s degree in Geography. I returned to south Wales in 2019 where I...

Kate Wynne

Feb 3, 2022

As a child I was an avid reader, devouring all books from Dahl to Blyton to Dick King-Smith. This love of reading led me to an English Literature degree where I undertook modules in Welsh writing in English and children’s literature. After university, I started...

Lisa Markham

Feb 3, 2022

Hello, I’m Lisa Markham and I’m delighted to have been invited to be on the Tir na n-Og Awards judging panel this year. Thank you for the honour.   My career is a bit of a ‘patchwork quilt’, to be honest, but the foundations have been set by wonderful parents and...

Ceri Griffith

Feb 3, 2022

My name is Ceri Fflur Griffith, and I am 22 years old.   I grew up on a farm near Pentir, north Wales. After I received my education at Brynrefail Secondary School in Llanrug, I decided to study a BA degree in Welsh and History at Cardiff University. After three...