Aberystwyth Creative City of Literature Factsheet - 2026

Bordered by sea and mountains, Aberystwyth Ceredigion has been steeped in literature and poetry for many centuries. People shared tales and poems
of loss, gain, adventure and adversity long before they started to inscribe them on the area’s stones in the 5th century. Literary culture, both Welsh and English, is at its heart and today Aberystwyth Ceredigion has a vibrant infrastructure of festivals, bookshops, theatres, cultural events, lectures, centres of literary excellence and research, publishing, poetry and writing that connects all parts of the county.