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A new international collaboration announced today between the British Museum’s Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR) and Hay Festival will inspire new stories based on items from the Americas collection that are not on display in the galleries... 

Posted 25 January 2022 Read more

To celebrate one hundred years since Sylvia Beach, publisher and bookseller, published James Joyce’s ULYSSES, the iconic bookshop Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is producing an ensemble recording of the complete text to be released as a free podcast between the 100th anniversary of the publication on 2 February 2022 and Bloomsday on 16 June 2022, and showcased at Hay Festival 2022.

Posted 20 January 2022 Read more

Hay Festival Cartagena has announced its 17th programme, 20-30 January, with global literary stars, Nobel Prize-winners and internationally acclaimed performers leading a line-up that encompasses 180 speakers from 20 countries with events in Colombia’s Cartagena de Indias (20-27 January), Medellín (24-27 January) and Jericó (20-23 January)... 

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Journalist Philip Clark and novelist and essayist Javier Montes have been named as the 2022 winners of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award, in a reception at the British Library last night...

Posted 1 December 2021 Read more

Hay Festival has announced 23 early-bird events for its 35th spring edition, taking place in person at a revamped Festival site 26 May-5 June 2022 in the booktown of Hay-on-Wye... 

Posted 29 November 2021 Read more

Real Estate by Deborah Levy has been named Hay Festival Book of the Year 2021 after hundreds of book lovers nominated their favourite titles of the year online.

Posted 23 November 2021 Read more

Ahead of Hay Festival Winter Weekend next week (24-28 November), five free “Winter Warmer” conversations have been released online featuring Booker Prize-winner Damon Galgut, novelist Matt Haig, cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, environmentalist Bill McKibben, and writer Siri Hustvedt...

Posted 15 November 2021 Read more

Hay Festival Scribblers Tour takes five exceptional YA writers direct to thousands of Year 7-10 school pupils across Wales next February in inspiring free, in-person events hosted at Welsh universities: University of South Wales, Swansea University, Aberystwyth University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, and Wrexham Glyndwr University...

Posted 9 November 2021 Read more

The British Library and Hay Festival are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the 2022 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award. Awarded annually to two writers in the early stages of a new book relating to the Americas, the £20,000 prize is now in its eleventh year...

Posted 3 November 2021 Read more

Y Bachgen, y Wahadden, y Llwynog a’r Ceffyl, the new Welsh edition ofCharlie Mackesy's The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, translated by Mererid Hopwood, is Hay Festival Book of the Month for November. The two writers join us live online 9 November at 4pm while copies are over on our bookshop for sale now.

Posted 1 November 2021 Read more

BAFTA-winning actor and national treasure Miriam Margolyes will switch on Hay-on-Wye’s Christmas lights as part of her Hay Festival Winter Weekend appearance on Friday 26 November...

Posted 1 November 2021 Read more

Hay Festival has announced the line-up for its seventh edition in Peru, Hay Festival Digital Arequipa, bringing writers and readers together in free online events, 1-7 November...

Posted 6 October 2021 Read more

Bewilderment by Richard Powers is Hay Festival Book of the Month for October. The novelist joins us live online 21 October at 7pm while signed copies are over on our bookshop for sale now.

Posted 1 October 2021 Read more

Hay Festival Winter Weekend returns with an ambitious programme for its first ticketed, in-person events in the UK for two years, bringing writers and readers together 24-28 November with a programme to inspire, examine and entertain and a new Festival site in the centre of Hay-on-Wye...

Posted 29 September 2021 Read more

Hay Festival has today unveiled its free autumn Programme for Schools including two days of in-person events at Hay Festival Winter Weekend, 24-25 November, alongside in-person Beacons Project and Welsh Scribblers Tour events across Wales... 

Posted 14 September 2021 Read more

27-28 September, Hay Festival Europa28 will culminate with a pair of one-off events in Paris, France, in partnership with the world-famous independent bookshop Shakespeare & Company and the cultural space Cité Internationale des Arts...

Posted 6 September 2021 Read more

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak is Hay Festival Book of the Month for September. The novelist joins us live online 30 September at 7.30pm while signed copies can be purchased in the Festival bookshop.

Posted 1 September 2021 Read more

The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani is Hay Festival Book of the Month for August. The novelist joins us live online 17 August at 7pm while signed copies are available in the online shop.

Posted 1 August 2021 Read more