Introduction
The Academi is the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors.
The Academi runs events, courses, competitions, including the Cardiff International Poetry Competition, with the support of Cardiff Council and offering a First Prize of £5000, conferences, tours by authors, lectures, international exchanges, events for schools, readings, literary performances and festivals. Academi is also responsible for the National Poet of Wales project and the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales.
Academi is pleased to be the recipient of an Arts Council of Wales Beacon Company Award 2008 - 2010. Click here for more information.
CIPC2010. The judges for the 2010 Cardiff International Poetry Competition are Jackie Kay and Zoë Skoulding. Download your form now to enter…Oxfam Bookfest - Cardiff
Oxfam Bookfest at Wales Millennium Centre with award-winning authors Deborah Kay Davies and Fflur Dafydd.
Academi’s new Young People’s Writing Squad website
Young People's Writing Squad: the launch of a brand new website.
Global Poetry System: Putting poetry on map. Academi has partnered with Southbank Centre to become one of the first contributors to a ground breaking on-line poetry project.
Writers in their Landscape: A bus tour in Ceredigion, based on the works of Gillian Clarke and Dic Jones.National Poet of Wales
Find out more about the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke
Cardiff International Poetry Competition
Further information about the 2008 and 2009 competitions.
What's On
Mantell Gwynedd
09/07/09
09/07/09
Oxfam Book Fortnight
08/07/09
08/07/09
Seren Books
09/07/09
More information
09/07/09
Young People’s Writing Squads
Click here for more information
Academi Services to Writers
Academi Writers’ Bursaries 2009
Funding for events
Academi’s funding schemes for literary events
Help and advice for Writers
How Academi can help writers in Wales
Joining
Would you like to join the Academi?
NLW Digitisation Proposals
The Welsh Journals Online project continues