The estuary village of Llangwm is celebrating the success of Wales’s newest literature festival after three days of wall-to-wall events enjoyed by visitors from as far away as Paris.

For organiser Michael Pugh - who brought the idea to fruition from a standing start after a chat with friends in the pub on New Year’s Day - the weekend was a triumph.

“I am delighted that we could offer something for everyone - poetry for dementia sufferers, song writing for people with learning difficulties and sessions for children as well as authors such as Griff Rhys Jones who we might call the icing on the Welsh cake,” he said.

“We also welcomed up and coming authors as varied as Tom Morris with his observations of life in his home town of Caerphilly and Ben Rawlence teasing out the stories of individuals in a refugee camp in Kenya.

“Everyone in the village contributed in some way whether it was hay bales to serve as seating, the provision of first aid cover or support from local hotels and businesses.”

For the audience, the highlight of the three-day event was Griff Rhys Jones discussing his book Insufficiently Welsh.

Griff, talking about the project which became the subject of his TV series A Pembrokeshire Farm told the capacity audience how fascinated he’d become with the conservationists who were determined to preserve every last bit of fabric.

“They’re determined to use lime, the right sort of slates -and every year you have to start all over again! Talk about the Forth Bridge!”

On the subject of his Welshness, he confided that he was one of the ‘Essex Welsh - a beleaguered little bit of Welshness in the middle of Essex’.

“I think of Wales not as the land of my fathers but the land of my aunties. When we visited them in Cardiff there was always a lot of powder and a lot of lipstick - and they’d want to kiss you!

“We’d arrive in what felt to me like the middle of the night, but what was probably about eight o’clock and they’d say ‘we’ve made a salad because we didn’t know what time you’d arrive’ - so I always associate Cardiff with salads.”

The winners of the children’s bi-lingual writing competition, featuring stories about any of the characters in Welsh author Roald Dahl’s books, were also awarded at the festival.

First prizes in the Foundation Phase were won by four-year-old Idris Battelley-de-Torres (Cymraeg) and Harry Wilson, aged seven (English). In the Key Stage 2 category, first prizes went to Ela-Gwennon Jones, aged eight (Cymraeg) and William Letten, aged 11 (English).

Prizes include tickets to Manor House Wildlife Park for first prize winners and free entries to the festival creative writing workshop for second and third place winners. All the children got a bar of chocolate provided by the Pembrokeshire Association of Beekeepers.