List of Welsh women writers

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
• Jane Brereton, poet and contributor to The Gentleman's Magazine
• Rhoda Broughton, novelist and short story writer
• Fanny Mary Katherine Bulkeley-Owen, historian and author

  C

• 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-Egyption 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Anna Williams, poet
• Jane Williams, biographer and non-fiction writer

  Y

• Paula Yates, non-fiction writer and television presenter