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Hay Fever Children's programme for Hay Festival

outreach programmes

The festival's desire to inspire is not restricted merely to twelve days in May. Across the UK and throughout the year Hay Fever runs outreach events for children to enjoy including Brecon LitFest, Southampton LitFest and GlamLit.



  • one-off events

  • We run one-off events benefiting primary and secondary school children local to Hay, including Michael Morpurgo at Hay Primary School, Lemn Sissay at Fairfield School, Gillian Clarke Exam Boosting for Year 11s and teacher master classes, Caroline Bird at Gwernyfed High School and One Day Film Schools.

  • the scribblers

    the scribblers website

  • Hay Festival’s very own writing club for local children. With the support of local journalists, writers, illustrators and designers the children meet weekly to ‘scribble’ articles, interviews, reviews, short stories, recipes and illustrations. The resulting quarterly magazine is published both in print and online (www.hayfestival.com/thescribblers) and distributed to all local schools.

  • glamlit

    more about glamlit

  • GlamLit has been running for six years. It is held at the University of Glamorgan, and brings 2,000 secondary school children to the University to hear from the best writers and poets for young people. This is funded by Glamorgan University.

  • brecon litfest

  • Brecon LitFest has been running for five years. It is held at Theatr Brycheiniog (Brecon Theatre) and fills the theatre with Years 6 & 7 pupils for a day of books and stories. Hay Festival funds this day.

  • southampton litfest

    more about southampton litfest

  • Southampton LitFest is in its third year. The 2008 line-up included Lemn Sissay, John Lyons and Gillian Clarke. 2009 sees Jenny Valentine, Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams engaging 450 pupils from across Hampshire for a day of talks, signings and teacher master classes. This is funded by Southampton University.

  • one-off nationwide events

  • The most high-profile of these being StoryQuest 2004, which was sponsored by Arts & Kids and Cartoon Network, and saw 13,000 children attend live literature events over the seven day tour that took in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Yorkshire, Wales, Oxfordshire, East Anglia and London.

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