List of Welsh women writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Wales or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
A
- Jane Aaron, literature scholar, researcher and non-fiction writer
- Jane Arden, film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright and poet
- Tiffany Atkinson, poet, educator
- Trezza Azzopardi, novelist and short story writer: ''The Hiding Place''
B
- Mary Balogh, Welsh-Canadian historical novelist
- Rachel Barrett, suffragette and newspaper editor
- Anne Beale, popular novelist, poet and children's writer
- Anna Maria Bennett, novelist
- Ruth Bidgood, poet
- Emily Rose Bleby, non-fiction writer and temperance activist
- Natasha Bowen, Nigerian Welsh novelist
- Jane Brereton, poet and contributor to The Gentleman's Magazine
- Rhoda Broughton, novelist and short story writer
- Fanny Bulkeley-Owen, historian and author
C
- Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Hywel, poet
- Brenda Chamberlain, artist and poet
- Grace Coddington, fashion writer, director of Vogue, memoirist
- Gillian Clarke, poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster
- Hafina Clwyd, educator and journalist
- Jasmine Cresswell, novelist
D
- Fflur Dafydd, novelist, playwright, poet and singer, in Welsh and English
- Catherine Glyn Davies, historian and translator
- Deborah Kay Davies, contemporary poet, novelist and educator
- Margaret Davies, poet and scribe
- Mary Davies, poet
- Amy Dillwyn, novelist and industrialist
E
- Dorothy Edwards, fiction writer
- Fanny Winifred Edwards, children's author, dramatist and schoolteacher
- Rhian Edwards, poet
- Sally El Hosaini, British-Egyptian film director and screenwriter
- Elen Egryn, Welsh-language poet
- Menna Elfyn, Welsh-language poet, playwright, columnist and editor
- Christine Evans, poet
- Margiad Evans, poet and novelist
F
- Catherine Fisher, novelist, poet and broadcaster
G
- Menna Gallie, novelist and translator
- Isabella Gifford, marine botanist
- Annabel Giles, broadcaster, novelist and actress
- Beatrice Green, labour activist and feminist/socialist writer
- Ann Griffiths, Welsh-language poet and hymn writer
- Bethan Gwanas, pen name of Bethan Evans, Welsh-language novelist and children's writer
H
- Ann Hatton, English-language novelist
- Myfanwy Haycock, poet, artist and broadcaster
- Felicia Hemans, English-born Welsh poet writing in English
- Ann Harriet Hughes, Welsh-language novelist and poet
- Ellen Hughes, Welsh-language writer, poet and suffragist
- Emily Huws, Welsh-language children's writer
I
- Elisabeth Inglis-Jones, novelist
- Norah Isaac, Welsh-language short story writer, playwright and travel writer
J
- Maria James, Welsh-born American poet
- Alice Gray Jones, poet, editor
- Margaret Jones, travel writer
- Mary Vaughan Jones, children's writer and teacher
- Sally Roberts Jones, poet and biographer
L
- Eiluned Lewis, novelist, poet and journalist
- Gwyneth Lewis, Welsh-language poet, national poet of Wales, also in English
- Martha Llwyd, poet and hymnist
M
- Ruth Manning-Sanders, poet and children's writer
- Ursula Masson, educator, literature researcher and non-fiction writer
- Gwerful Mechain, Welsh-language poet
- Nia Medi, since 2005, Welsh-language novelist and actress
- Dorothy Miles, poet, in English and sign language
- Moelona, pen name of Elizabeth Mary Jones, Welsh-language novelist, children's writer and translator
- Jan Morris, Welsh historian and travel writer
- Ann Moray, novelist, short story writer and singer
- Elaine Morgan, non-fiction writer on anthropology, playwright and columnist
- Elena Puw Morgan, Welsh-language novelist and children's writer
- Elizabeth Morgan, non-fiction writer
- Eluned Morgan, Welsh-language author from Patagonia, travel writer and non-fiction writer
- Gwenllian Elizabeth Fanny Morgan, non-fiction writer and mayor
- Penelope Mortimer, journalist, biographer and novelist
- Wendy Mulford, poet and feminist
N
- Mary Edith Nepean, romantic novelist
O
- Pixie O'Harris, Welsh-born Australian artist, poet, autobiographer and illustrator
P
- Sarah Winifred Parry fiction writer
- Amy Parry-Williams, singer and writer
- Jessie Penn-Lewis, evangelist, religious writer and magazine publisher
- Anne Penny, poet
- Ellis Peters, Welsh-English mystery fiction writer and translator: Brother Cadfael
- Pascale Petit, poet
- Katherine Philips, poet and translator
- Angharad Price, novelist and academic
- Myfanwy Pryce, fiction writer
R
- Allen Raine, pen name of Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe, novelist in English and Welsh
- Helen Raynor, television screenwriter, script editor and playwright
- Sarah Jane Rees, teacher, poet and temperance campaigner
- Deryn Rees-Jones, poet and essayist
- Eigra Lewis Roberts, poet, children's writer and novelist in Welsh
- Kate Roberts, Welsh-language fiction writer
- Manon Steffan Ros
- Jane Helen Rowlands, linguist, non-fiction writer and missionary
- Bernice Rubens, novelist: ''The Elected Member''
S
- Carole Seymour-Jones, biographer, columnist and literary non-fiction writer
- Norena Shopland author, historian in LGBTQ+ history and Welsh history
- Dorothy Simpson, mystery novelist and crime-fiction writer
- Mari Strachan, novelist and librarian
- Jennifer Sullivan, children's writer and critic
- Rosie Swale-Pope, non-fiction writer and marathon runner
T
- Louie Myfanwy Thomas, novelist
- Hester Thrale, diarist
- Barbara Margaret Trimble, novelist
V
- Hilda Vaughan, fiction writer, playwright: ''The Invader''
W
- Jo Walton, Welsh-Canadian romance and science fiction novelist: Tooth and Claw
- Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymnist
- Sarah Waters, novelist: Fingersmith
- Susie Wild, novelist, journalist and editor
- Sioned Wiliam, novelist and broadcasting executive
- Anna Williams, poet
- Jane Williams, biographer and non-fiction writer
Y
- Paula Yates, non-fiction writer and television presenter