The Dylan Thomas ‘Summer Soirées’ are a series of evening literary events co-organised by write4word and the School of English and Creative Writing at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The events are supported by Literature Wales and run in parallel with the Dylan Thomas International Summer School. This is a residential creative writing programme for American MFA students directed by writers Pamela Petro and Dominic Williams. All events are free entry and open to the public and showcase some of Wales finest professional writers, many with international profiles, in a diverse range of genres. The ambition is to present these writers in informal intimate settings to both an international and an often-isolated rural local audience.

David Elliott is the award-winning author of more than thirty books for young people, including the picture books Baabwaa and Wooliam, and the New York Times best-selling And Here’s to You!. He is the author of three critically acclaimed verse novels, Bull, which received seven starred reviews, Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, winner of the Claudia Lewis Award for best poetry book of the year, and most recently The Seventh Raven, which in a starred review School Library Journal described as “achieving short, intense bursts of emotion and deep, wandering musings on identity and fate.” Before becoming a writer David worked as a popsicle stick maker in Israel, a cucumber washer in Greece, a teacher in Libya, and a singer in Mexico. A native of Ohio, David now lives in New Hampshire with his wife and their Dandie Dinmont terrier, Queequeg. Learn more about David by visiting davidelliottbooks.com .