List of Welsh women writers

• Jane Aaron (born 1951), literature scholar, researcher and non-fiction writer • Jane Arden (1927–1982), film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright and poet • Tiffany Atkinson (born 1972), poet, educator • Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961), novelist and short story writer: The Hiding Place ==B==

• Delyth Badder, folklorist, writer and the world's first Welsh-speaking consultant paediatric and perinatal pathologist • Mary Balogh (born 1944), Welsh-Canadian historical novelist • Rachel Barrett (1874–1953), suffragette and newspaper editor • Anne Beale (1816–1900), popular novelist, poet and children's writer • Anna Maria Bennett (c. 1750–1808), novelist • Ruth Bidgood (1922–2022), poet • Emily Rose Bleby (1849-1917), non-fiction writer and temperance activist • Natasha Bowen, Nigerian Welsh novelist • Jane Brereton (1685–1740), poet and contributor to ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' • Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920), novelist and short story writer • Fanny Bulkeley-Owen (1845–1927), historian and author ==C==

• Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Hywel (), poet • Brenda Chamberlain (1912–1971), artist and poet • Grace Coddington (born 1941), fashion writer, director of Vogue, memoirist • Gillian Clarke (born 1937), poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster • Hafina Clwyd (1936–2011), educator and journalist • Jasmine Cresswell (born 1941), novelist ==D==

• Fflur Dafydd (born 1978), novelist, playwright, poet and singer, in Welsh and English • Catherine Glyn Davies (1926–2007), historian and translator • Deborah Kay Davies, contemporary poet, novelist and educator • Margaret Davies (fl. 1700s), poet and scribe • Mary Davies (1846–1882), poet • Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935), novelist and industrialist ==E==

• Dorothy Edwards (1903–1934), fiction writer • Fanny Winifred Edwards (1876–1959), children's author, dramatist and schoolteacher • Rhian Edwards (active from 2000s), poet • Sally El Hosaini (born 1976), British-Egyptian film director and screenwriter • Elen Egryn (1807–1897), Welsh-language poet • Menna Elfyn (born 1952), Welsh-language poet, playwright, columnist and editor • Christine Evans (born 1943), poet • Margiad Evans (1909–1958), poet and novelist ==F==

• Catherine Fisher (born 1957), novelist, poet and broadcaster ==G==

• Menna Gallie (1919–1990), novelist and translator • Isabella Gifford (1825–1891), marine botanist • Annabel Giles (1959–2023), broadcaster, novelist and actress • Beatrice Green (1894–1927), labour activist and feminist/socialist writer • Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), Welsh-language poet and hymn writer • Bethan Gwanas, pen name of Bethan Evans (born 1962), Welsh-language novelist and children's writer ==H==

• Ann Hatton (1764–1838), (Ann of Swansea) English-language novelist • Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963), poet, artist and broadcaster • Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), English-born Welsh poet writing in English • Ann Harriet Hughes (1852–1910), Welsh-language novelist and poet • Ellen Hughes (1867–1927), Welsh-language writer, poet and suffragist • Emily Huws (born 1942), Welsh-language children's writer ==I==

• Elisabeth Inglis-Jones (1900–1994), novelist • Norah Isaac (1915–2003), Welsh-language short story writer, playwright and travel writer ==J==

• Maria James (1793–1868), Welsh-born American poet • Alice Gray Jones (1852–1943), poet, editor • Margaret Jones (1842–1902), travel writer • Mary Vaughan Jones (1918–1983), children's writer and teacher • Sally Roberts Jones (born 1935), poet and biographer ==L==

• Eiluned Lewis (1900–1979), novelist, poet and journalist • Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh-language poet, national poet of Wales, also in English • Martha Llwyd (1766–1845), poet and hymnist ==M==

• Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988), poet and children's writer • Ursula Masson (1945–2008), educator, literature researcher and non-fiction writer • Gwerful Mechain (15th century), Welsh-language poet • Nia Medi, since 2005, Welsh-language novelist and actress • Dorothy Miles (1931–1993), poet, in English and sign language • Moelona, pen name of Elizabeth Mary Jones (1877–1953), Welsh-language novelist, children's writer and translator • Jan Morris (born James Morris, 1926–2020), Welsh historian and travel writer • Ann Moray (1909–1981), novelist, short story writer and singer • Elaine Morgan (1920–2013), non-fiction writer on anthropology, playwright and columnist • Elena Puw Morgan (1900–1973), Welsh-language novelist and children's writer • Elizabeth Morgan (born 1930), non-fiction writer • Eluned Morgan (1870–1938), Welsh-language author from Patagonia, travel writer and non-fiction writer • Gwenllian Elizabeth Fanny Morgan (1852–1939), non-fiction writer and mayor • Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999), journalist, biographer and novelist • Wendy Mulford (born 1941), poet and feminist ==N==

• Mary Edith Nepean (1876–1960), romantic novelist ==O==

• Pixie O'Harris (1903–1991), Welsh-born Australian artist, poet, autobiographer and illustrator ==P==

• Sarah Winifred Parry (1870–1953) fiction writer • Amy Parry-Williams (1910–1988), singer and writer • Jessie Penn-Lewis (1861–1927), evangelist, religious writer and magazine publisher • Anne Penny (1729–1784), poet • Ellis Peters (1913–1995), Welsh-English mystery fiction writer and translator: Brother Cadfael • Pascale Petit (born 1953), poet • Katherine Philips (1632–1664), poet and translator • Angharad Price (living), novelist and academic • Myfanwy Pryce (1890–1976), fiction writer ==R==

• Allen Raine, pen name of Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe (1836–1908), novelist in English and Welsh • Helen Raynor (born 1972), television screenwriter, script editor and playwright • Sarah Jane Rees (1839–1916), teacher, poet and temperance campaigner • Deryn Rees-Jones (fl. since 1994), poet and essayist • Eigra Lewis Roberts (born 1939), poet, children's writer and novelist in Welsh • Kate Roberts (1891–1985), Welsh-language fiction writer • Manon Steffan Ros • Jane Helen Rowlands (1891–1955), linguist, non-fiction writer and missionary • Bernice Rubens (1923–2004), novelist: The Elected Member ==S==

• Carole Seymour-Jones (born 1963), biographer, columnist and literary non-fiction writer • Norena Shopland author, historian in LGBTQ+ history and Welsh history • Dorothy Simpson (1933–2020), mystery novelist and crime-fiction writer • Mari Strachan (born 1945), novelist and librarian • Jennifer Sullivan (born 1945), children's writer and critic • Rosie Swale-Pope (born 1946), non-fiction writer and marathon runner ==T==

• Louie Myfanwy Thomas (1908–1968), novelist • Hester Thrale (1741–1821), diarist • Barbara Margaret Trimble (1921–1995), novelist ==V==

• Hilda Vaughan (1892–1985), fiction writer, playwright: The Invader ==W==

• Jo Walton (born 1964), Welsh-Canadian romance and science fiction novelist: Tooth and Claw • Anna Laetitia Waring (1823–1910), poet and hymnist • Sarah Waters (born 1966), novelist: Fingersmith • Susie Wild (born 1979), novelist, journalist and editor • Sioned Wiliam (born 1962), novelist and broadcasting executive • Anna Williams (1706–1783), poet • Jane Williams (1806–1885), biographer and non-fiction writer ==Y==