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#IWD | 100 Women of Wales on Twitter

For #IWD, the writers of Wales Arts Review have nominated 100 women of Wales who we think you should be following on Twitter (if you’re not already). Here is a list of women who will keep you informed, entertained and inspired on social media’s premier platform.

To see each person’s profile click on the red, but each highlighted tweet is fully interactive and you can “follow”simply by clicking on follow.

Please use social media to give a shout out to those you think we should be following.

(lead illustration by Dean Lewis)

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Elen Ap Robert – Cyfarwyddwr Artistig Pontio,Canolfan i’r Celfyddydau ac Arloesi Prifysgol Bangor. Artistic Director of Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre Bangor University.

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Shazia Awan – Welsh????Feminist????Muslim????Politics????PR Bod ????Equality Activist????Host @bbcasiannetwork BigDebate VP @Cwvys Ambassador @theredcardwales

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Julia Barry – Executive Director at Sherman Theatre.

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Emma Balch – Developing a new interactive, international museum of books http://www.thestoryofbooks.com @thestoryofbooks Also have a B&B in Hay-on-Wye @potterycottage_

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Amelia Fae Baugh – Flâneur | Assistant Editor @WalesArtsReview

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Jess Blair – Policy and Projects Manager at @IWA_Wales. I like running, netball, food and adventures. Views are entirely my own.

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Kirsti Bohata – Associate Prof. English Lit, Swansea University. Welsh writing in English; Disability & Industrial Society; Digital Literary Atlas; Postcol & Queer lit/theory.

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Charlotte Church – Dare you enter the Dungeon?

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Lowri Haf Cooke – Sgrifennu, Darlledu & Adolygu – Ffilm, Bwytai, Theatr, Llên a Chelf / Film, Theatre, Art & Restaurant Critic + Author #CaffisCymru & #CanllawBachCaerdydd

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Rhiannon Cosslett – Guardian writer, author, Vagenda co-founder.

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Tahnee Craven – freelance arts management, co-director @WalesFlamenco, trainee teacher ???? mama and wife-to-be

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Kizzy Crawford – Welsh / Bajan soul-folk & jazz artist.

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Elena Cresci – Putting the Len in millennial @guardian. Presenter @5pump & @bento_de.

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Laura Drane – creative producer & consultant, city lover, seeker, film/TV-watcher, book-reader, northerner (at heart), cooker, mother, #FRSA, Chair @theatriolo, ACW Adviser

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Fflur Dafydd – screenwriter @YLlyfrgellFilm. Creator TV series #Parch @s4c. Singer-songwriter. Novelist in 2 languages. Cymraes. Repped by @TillettT & @EuanThorneycrof

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Gwenno Dafydd – Author of ‘Stand Up & Sock it to them Sister. Funny, Feisty Females‘. Parthian Press. Skype Leadership & Public Speaking Coach. Check my website.

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Nicola Davies – I write children’s non fiction and fiction about the natural world and our relationship with it. And I sing.

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Nia Edwards – Cinema Technician, co-director of @AbertoirFest, film scholar and contributing writer to @WarpedPersp. Sarcasm enthusiast. Dwyieithog.

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Erica Eirian – Actor represented by http://management2000.co.uk Artistic Director of http://theatrpena.co.uk

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Dr Dimitra Fimi – Academic and writer, specialist on #Tolkien and #fantasy literature; I lecture on children’s literature, myth, folklore and science fiction too; mother of 4yo

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Jo Fong – Director, Choreographer and Performer working in Dance, Theatre, Film and Visual Arts.

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Julia Forster – Debut novel What a Way to Go @AtlanticBooks Bursary panelist @LitWales PR @NineArchesPress Seriously trying to avoid caffeine & adverbs; succeeding in neither.

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Emma Geliot – Wales-based art-loving journalist. Editor CCQ Magazine

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Manon George – Darlithydd yn y Gyfraith/Law Lecturer. Cyfraith Datganoli/Law of Devolution

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Nikki Giant – Director of social ent @FullCircleCIC; author of Surviving Girlhood, E-Safety for the iGeneration & Life Coaching for Kids. Ambassador for @GirlRising

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Angela Graham – TV Producer & Writer ~ Interests: Media Policy, #ReportingBelief16, Dialogue

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Mari Griffith – writer, art historian, producer | 20+ yrs @nationalgallery @royalacademy @ngadc @AntennaIntl UK/Italy & freelance | #art #museums #interpretation

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Lucy Griffiths – Writer, educator, designer, author of the @island_friends books, founder @We_Are_Lucky. Fellowship Council @thersaorg, @TEDx talk: http://youtu.be/lXvby4h7oGg

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Rebecca Gould – Head of Arts British Council (Wales) & Associate practitioner at the RSC. Lover of plays and playwrights

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Amy Gregory – Works at Hijinx Theatre Company. Living in the beautiful Cardiff Bay.

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Tanni Grey-Thompson – Lady GT (no longer a Dame), House of Lords Crossbench Peer, Chair ukactive, Paralympian – 11 Gold medals, Welsh.

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Fflur Gwynn – Uwch Guradur: Bywyd Diwylliannol | Senior Curator: Cultural Life | National Museum Wales

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Sian Harries – Co-Writer Greg Davies’s Man Down. Writer/Performer BBC Radio Wales’s Here Be Dragons. Writer CBBC’s DNN, BBC Two’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks

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Tamara Harvey – Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd @ClwydTweets @YoungClwydIfanc

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Carolyn Hitt – Producer/co-founder @ParasolMedia Columnist @WalesOnline Author Wales Play In Red & Welsh Rugby in the 1970s @Velindre Ambassador; Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust.

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Sophie Howe – Advocate for Future Generations as Wales 1st Future Generations Commissioner. Looking after my own futre generations as wife & Mum of 5

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Sali Hughes – The Pool, Guardian and Empire Columnist, interviewer, radio bod, event host. New ????Pretty Iconic, out 20th Oct.

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Rhian Hutchings  – Director, Creative Agent, participatory artist & welshwoman! Love music, opera, theatre, weather, psychology. Grade Two violinist!

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Liz Hyder – Media bod. Writer type. Book, theatre & arts geek. Lover of wildlife and science. Optimistic grower of veg. Where’s Wally’s sister. http://wordshoppers.co.uk

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Rebecca F. John – PEN Int New Voices Winner. Sunday Times shortlisted. Clown’s Shoes, out now. The Haunting of Henry Twist, forthcoming 2017

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Lisa Heledd Jones – I work with people to make things (stories, festivals, shows). big fan of plants and mushrooms. can do (vocal) impression of a sheep in labour.

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Nia Jones – Playwright & Writer. Cymraes, Humanist, Swedish learner & Author of The Twisted Sister Blog http://twistedsisblog.wordpress.com Instagram: niajoneswriter

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Nadia Kamil – writer, actor, & comic. 1995/96 Wales Junior 10pin Bowling Squad

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Katherine Kavanagh – An exploration of the circus world, in the UK and beyond. News, reviews, links etc. https://www.patreon.com/thecircusdiaries?ty=h … Tweets by @bustingfree

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Deborah Keyser  – Director of @TyCerdd_org

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Jenny Kidd – Lecturer @CardiffJOMEC digital, museums, media, creative economy. FRSA. Books ‘Representation”Museums in the New Mediascape”Challenging History in the Museum’

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Valerian Lelond – Arlunwraig o Ffrainc sy’n hoffi trydar yn Gymraeg. Artiste francophone qui twitte surtout en gallois.

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Cate Le Bon – CRAB DAY allan/out Ebrill 15ed/April 15th @turnstilemusic @dragcityrecords

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Angharad Lee – Theatre/Opera/Film director and AD at @LeewayProds Enquiries to @BBAteam also proud #CreativeAgent with @Arts_Wales_

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Gwyneth Lewis – Poet

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Sophie Lewis – Sinfonia Cymru Chief Executive

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Liz Lloyd – Semi-abstract landscape artist inspired by Catalonia and Wales. Loves art, books, rock and Rioja. Commissions welcome.

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Cerys Matthews – sad eyed lady of the Uplands

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Cerith Mathias – Series Editor @TheWalesReport, BBCWales. Co-Director @cardiffbookfest Associate Editor @WalesArtsReview. Writer @deepsouthmag. ????Journalist????Producer????Scribbler

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Lisa Matthews – Songs, arts & creativity, ideas & intrigue, nice ales, long walks. Swears like a sailor. @creativecardiff via digital/enterprise @Arts_Wales_.

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Jo Mazelis – Author

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Laura McAllister – Professor, Cardiff University Wales Governance Centre. Ex-Wales international footballer. Politics, Wales, devolution but regularly distracted by football/sport

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Sophie McKeand – Award winning Welsh poet. Dysgu Cymraeg. Young People’s Laureate Wales @YPLWales. Rebel Sun out with Parthian Books June’17. Also at @AbsurdTravels

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Kirsten McTernan – Photographer / Designer specialising in Theatre / Music / Arts | Photographing Dress Rehearsals / rehearsals / promo / posters / album artwork / events & more…

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Sophie Melville – Welsh. Actress. Playing Mary in Low Level Panic @ The Orange Tree Theatre.

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Kate Mercer – Have camera, will travel! Photographer in Newport, South Wales (GB) – Memory, Identity and uses of photography

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Rachel Minto – Researching Brexit and UK devolved politics at the Wales Governance Centre. EU politics, governance and gender. Member of Board of Cardiff Women’s Aid | Cardiff

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Jackie Morris – I write books, illustrate, paint, think, walk, knit, blog. Owned by cats.

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Holly Müller – Writer / MY OWN DEAR BROTHER published 2016 with @BloomsburyBooks / musician @hailtheplanes / daughter of a migrant

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Tiffany Murray – Novelist. Sugar Hall, Diamond Star Halo, Happy Accidents. Editor of Fill Your Heart: Writers on Bowie with @unbounders ‘The glam rock Dodie Smith,’ they say.

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Gosia Nowicka – ‘Being bad-ass and then writing about it’ Founder of @mamariot_ #mamariot

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Kate North – writer and lecturer

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Catrin Nye – BBC Reporter & Documentary maker ????????‍♀️. Welsh in London.

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Omidaze Productions – Founded in 2008 by Yvonne Murphy with the express purpose of using theatre to empower, inform, entertain, shake stuff up & inspire change

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Kaite O’Reilly – Words, words, words. Plays, prose, and, some say, poetry. I’m still not sure.

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Rachel O’Riordan – Artistic Director at Sherman Theatre.

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Siân Owen – Writer, Welsher. Wifer. Mummer. Represented by @TALLagent

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Catherine Paskell – Stage Director. Clore Fellow. Artistic Director @DirtyProtest. Founding associate @ntwtweets. A smile with a person around it – Lemn Sissay.

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Angharad Penrhyn Jones – Cymraes Ewropeaidd. Co-editor of Here We Stand: Women Changing the World (Honno), winner of Bread & Roses Award 2015. Reissued by Pluto Press for @LeftBookClub

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Lynne Plowman – Composer

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Steph Power – freelance writer & composer : opera & classical music critic: The Independent / i & more : editor: @WalesArtsReview

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Sheenagh Pugh – Writer. Foreign. My blog is at http://sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com

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Clare Potter – Bilingual poet, performer. Collaborates with artists/musicians in community projects. Llwyn Celyn poet-in-residence, One foot in New Orleans.

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Louvain Rees – Historian|Lover of dilapidated buildings, churchyards and occasional ramblings. Interested in the concept of remembrance| #siaradcymraeg

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Sam Rhydderch – Poet published by @picadorbooks, @RackPressPoetry & @SerenBooks, teaches @UniofOxford and @UWTSD

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Shani Rhys James – artist painter

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Lucy Rivers – Loves good Theatre, Music, Stories and chocolate. The darker the better. Feminist.

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Alexandra Roach – ACTRESS // ????????????

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Jude Rogers – Guardian/Observer/The Pool music writer/ interviewer, Radio 4 broadcaster, author of Pop! (http://fishertonpress.co.uk/pop/ ). Welshwoman, romantic, geek.

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Georgia Ruth – New album FOSSIL SCALE out now (CD & digital) // vinyl out now @diverserecords // Cyflwyno ar @BBCRadioCymru nos Fawrth 7-10

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Laura Sheldon – New children’s author. Published by Firefly Press. Teacher, beach lover, wife and mum of two busy boys.

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Lleucu Siencyn – Llenyddiaeth Cymru/ Literature Wales CEO. Llyfrau, bilingualism, teulu, feminism. Views my own/ fy marn fy hun.

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Gwenno Saunders – Artist & @camortywyllwch

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Durre Shahwar – Writer. Intersectional Feminist. Associate Editor @WalesArtsReview. @WordFactoryUK Apprentice 2017. MA Creative Writing.

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Carrie Smith – Lecturer at Cardiff University, teaching modernism. Research Ted Hughes, manuscripts & poetic process. Often found dying of thirst in archives. Likes crumpets.

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Louise Swindell – Development Officer. Loves being creative in any way, shape or form. Enjoys sunshine and whisky.

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Kully Thiari – Artistic Director National Theatre Wales

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Adele Thomas – Theatre Director

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Leonora Thomson – Here I am in my new life in Cardiff. MD of the fabulous @WNOtweet.

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Rachel Trezise – Novels Short Stories Drama

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Kate Wasserberg – Artistic Director at The Other Room.

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Rhiannon White – Co-Founder/ Co-Director @Common_WealthHQ Freelance Director/ Theatre Maker/ Devisor. Welsh Clore fellow 2015/16. Creative Wales Award 2017

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Mererid Williams – Founder of http://letstalkwelsh.com (one-to-one Welsh tutoring via Skype/Zoom). Dw i’n ❤️ languages, education & music ???? ????Riding the waves of life with #RRMS.

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Tamar Williams – Storyteller / Chwedleuwr. Theatre maker. Cymraes. Shows: THE GIRL WHO CAME IN FROM THE SEA & STORIES FOR THE SILVER TREE.

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