Representing Wales 4: The Assessment Panel

Anwen started her career in the press departments at Penguin and Waterstones, before co-founding Riot Communications, which fast became one of the most respected and influential PR agencies in the publishing industry. In 2018, Anwen launched Bird Literary Agency, with a mission to give flight to books that would inspire and provoke. Her authors include Caryl Lewis, Liz Hyder, Kirsty Capes, Huw Aaron, Jodie Lancet-Grant and Moira Buffini. 

Anwen was a judge at the British Book Awards 2018-2022, and was nominated for Literary Agent of the Year at the British Book Awards 2023. 

Raymond Antrobus is a poet, writer and broadcaster. He was born in London to an English mother and Jamaican father. He’s a Cave Canem Graduate and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. He is the author of 'To Sweeten Bitter' (UK, Out-Spoken Press), ‘The Perseverance’ (UK, Penned in the Margins / US, Tin House) and ‘All The Names Given’ (US, Tin House / UK, Picador) as well as children’s picture book ‘Can Bears Ski?’ (UK, Walker Books / US, Candlewick). He is the 2019 recipient of the Ted Hughes Award as well as the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award, and became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize. His first full-length collection, ‘The Perseverance,’ was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and The Forward Prize, ‘All The Names Given’ was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Award. Also in 2021 his poems were added to the UK’s ‘GCSE’ syllabus.

Brennig Davies is an author and poet from the Vale of Glamorgan. He won the inaugural BBC Young Writers Award in 2015 and the Crown at the Urdd Eisteddfod 2019. His work has appeared in Poetry Wales, Litro USA, Ffosfforws, and The Cardiff Review, and in 2023 he was chosen as one of the Hay Festival’s Writers at Work, sponsored by Literature Wales. 

Angela Hui is an award-winning journalist, editor and author of Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Financial Times, HuffPost, Independent, Lonely Planet, Refinery29, The Times and, Vice, among others. She was the former food and drink editor at Time Out and editor at REKKI. Currently, she's freelance.