Management Board

Steve Dimmick is a Blaina boy. His love of words came from his father, who formed the Poems and Pints community in Blaenau Gwent. Steve runs the CardiffRead book club, the city’s longest running gathering of spine breakers. In this capacity he’s welcomed the likes of Manon Steffan Ros, Chris Power, Owen Sheers, Belinda Bauer, Lemn Sissay and many more through the doors of Canton Library. Day to day, he’s Dad to three children, and sits as a Parent Governor for Ysgol Plasmawr. Steve has also been a Trustee with National Theatre Wales, helping them transition to the Michael-Sheen-led Welsh National Theatre, following the loss of Arts Council of Wales support for NTW.

A lover of languages, Steve was a Welsh Learner of the Year finalist in 2018. As Commercial Director for Awen Cultural Trust, Steve’s remit is to Make People’s Lives Better; something he hopes to achieve as a Trustee with Literature Wales.

With an MSc in public understanding of science and over 15 years of experience in environmental funding in the public sector, Joanne Doyle is motivated by systems approaches that can bring in different perspectives to design for equitable futures. Prior to working in the public sector, she has worked in not for profits supporting partnership work and organisational development. She sees the arts as foundational for creative imagination practice that can celebrate diversity, inclusion and different ways of knowing that are essential to building a sustainable future. Born in Ireland, studied in London, Joanne now lives in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Sioned Wiliam comes from Barry. She is the author of the novels, Dal i Fynd, Chwynnu, Cicio’r Bar and Y Gwyliau. Sioned began her television and radio career at the BBC, before becoming an independent producer. Her credits include Tonight with Jonathan Ross, Game On, Big Train and Yonderland. She also produced iDot and exec produced Rhestr Nadolig Wil for Boom/S4C for which she won a Children’s BAFTA Award. She has been nominated for a BAFTA award three times and won a British Comedy Award and a Bronze Rose at Montreux for BIG TRAIN in 1999. She has also worked as a Commissioning Editor for ITV and BBC Radio 4 and recently worked as the Interim CEO of S4C. She is a Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and is a non-executive Director of Cwmni Da.

Charlotte Williams OBE FLSW is an author, academic and cultural critic. Her writings span academic publications, memoir, short fiction, reviews, essays and commentaries. She has written over fourteen academic books, notably the edited collection ‘A Tolerant Nation? Ethnic Diversity in a devolved Wales (2003 & 2015) and her creative non-fiction includes her award-winning memoir Sugar and Slate (Wales Book of the Year 2003) republished in 2022 by Parthian for the Library of Wales Series and in 2023 by Penguin as part of their Black Britian Writing Back Series. Charlotte is Professor Emeritus at Bangor University and holds Honorary fellowships at Wrexham University, University of South Wales and Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is a member of the Learned Society of Wales, a non-executive Director of Estyn and Advisor to the Welsh government on the implementation of the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan.