During the 2016-17 academic year, Literature Wales received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to run a project commemorating the First World War. Writers Gwion Hallam, Sian Northey and Manon Steffan Ros worked with 21 schools by leading creative writing workshops and the children visited the Gwynedd Archive Services to research local individuals who played a part in the First World War.
The pupils wrote letters of peace in the characters’ voices, and their work was exhibited in the National Eisteddfod in Anglesey 2017.
A number of these letters were enclosed in a time capsule and planted in the garden of the Tŷ Newydd writing centre.