Disgraced former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards has been criticised for entering a poem into the National Eisteddfod's poetry competition, with actress and abuse survivor Sera Cracroft warning it would have been "catastrophic" had he won. Edwards was given a six-month suspended sentence in 2024 after admitting to accessing 41 indecent images of children, including seven of the most serious category, and his entry under a pseudonym has reignited debate about whether he should be seeking public redemption so soon afterwards.

Edwards submitted his poem, written under the pseudonym "Y Gelyn" (The Enemy), describing it as a tribute to his father intended to counter a "poisonous narrative"; it reportedly fell well short of winning, placing only in the competition's third grouping. The National Eisteddfod said its anonymised entry system meant judges could not have known who had submitted the poem beforehand. Cracroft, known for her role in Pobol y Cwm, said Edwards should reflect more on the harm caused to survivors and has called on the festival to review its pseudonymous entry rules, while Edwards has previously written on his Substack blog that he felt "abhorrence" towards his offences.