About Kidwelly Festival Ltd

Kidwelly Festival Ltd (Company Registration Number 07794900) is being run as a not-for-profit organisation.  The company has detailed and up-to-date accounts and is being run with full transparency and high integrity.

Meet Julian and the Team

From left: Matthew Edwards (Team Leader), Temi Coker, Julian Ruck (Founder and MD), Varun Patel, Parinetha Aradhya, Akshay Gururaj, Lottie and Lucy (The Wooflers)

Robin 'Two-Jags' Cammish, Procurement and Supply, with his two Angels

Julian Ruck – Founder and Managing Director of Kidwell-e Festival

Julian Ruck is the best-selling author of the 'Treharne Trilogy', published by Dinefwr. He came up with the idea of the festival after recognising the growing importance of ebooks and digital publishing. Mr Ruck has a wealth of experience of the writing trade and publishing industry, and regularly appears in the media, making him the perfect figurehead for the festival. For more information visit his Wikipedia entry and personal Website.

Simon Rees - Arts Consultant

Simon Rees has published novels, poems, librettos and children’s verse in a writing career that spans thirty years. His first novel, The Devil’s Looking-Glass, won a Betty Trask award and was published by Methuen. His subsequent novels, Making a Snowman and Nathaniel and Mrs Palmer, were published by Penguin. He has taught English in Italy and Japan, and now works for Welsh National Opera as dramaturg, translating librettos, lecturing and writing opera programmes, a post he has held since 1989. His recent work includes a collection of verse for children, Animals, Beasts and Creatures (Poetry Salzburg Press) and a libretto for Mervyn Burtch’s children’s oratorio The Song Contest of Birds and Beasts. He is married to the Japanese writer Yoko Kawaguchi, and they live in Cardiff.