Barn is a monthly Welsh magazine. Written in high register Welsh it covers politics, the arts, social affairs and has regular columns on literature, current affairs, food and wine, biography, science and The Arts. It remains something of a heavy-weight compared to the popular weekly Golwg

Golwg

Golwg is a Welsh-language magazine established in 1988. It covers current events and features and claims a circulation of 12,000 a month, the largest circulation of any magazine in Wales....

 but is not so literary focused as the quarterly Taliesin

Taliesin

Taliesin was an early British poet of the post-Roman period whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin...

 or Tu Chwith magazines.

Barn was founded in 1962. This monthly magazine has published over 500 issues since first publlished by Llyfrau'r Dryw, Llandybïe

Llandybie

Llandybie is a community, and a large village two miles north of Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, Wales.The latest Ordnance Survey map the Grid reference at the centre of the village is SN 617 154...

Editors

• Emlyn Evans
• Aneirin Talfan Davies
  Aneirin Talfan Davies
  Aneirin Talfan Davies was a Welsh poet, broadcaster and literary critic.Talfan Davies was brought up in Gorseinon. During the 1930s Davies worked in London as a pharmacist before returning to Wales and settling in Swansea. He was the brother of Alun Talfan Davies, with whom he founded the...
  
  
• Alwyn D. Rees
• Gwyn Erfyl
• Menna Baines
• Simon Brooks
  Simon Brooks
  Dr Simon Brooks is a former editor of the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn , as well as founding co-editor of the Welsh language cultural magazine Tu Chwith between 1993 and 1996. A collection of his journalism in Barn was published in 2009...
  
  
• Dyfrig Wynn Jones

Links and References

• Gwefan y cylchgrawn
• http://www.encyclopaediaofwales.com/cymraeg/menna-baines