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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

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

Hay Festival has today announced the line-up for the sixteenth Hay Festival Segovia in Spain with more than 80 speakers from 20 countries set to take part, 16-19 September 2021... 

Posted 15 July 2021 Read more

Hay Festival has today announced the line-up for the sixth Hay Festival Querétaro in Mexico with more than 170 speakers from 19 countries set to take part, 1-5 September 2021...

Posted 17 June 2021 Read more

Hay Festival 2021 came to a triumphant close on Sunday 6 June after a fortnight of live and online conversations, debates and performances brought thousands of writers and readers together. Events were streamed by festivalgoers in 135 countries for a combined running total of 9 years, 236 days, 5 hours, 51 minutes, 43 seconds and counting...

Posted 8 June 2021 Read more

Novelist Ali Smith was awarded the Hay Festival Medal for Prose 2021 today at Hay Festival, the fourth and final medal recipient of the 2021 Festival...

Posted 6 June 2021 Read more

Academy Award-winning writer, director, and actress Emerald Fennell is awarded the Hay Festival Medal for Drama today at Hay Festival 2021. Fennell is the third recipient of a Hay Festival Medal for 2021, with poet Benjamin Zephaniah (Medal for Poetry), and journalist and activist George Monbiot (Medal for Journalism) already awarded their medals.  

Posted 5 June 2021 Read more

Poet and musician Benjamin Zephaniah was awarded the Hay Festival Medal for Poetry today (Wednesday 2 June) at Hay Festival 2021. Awarded annually since Britain’s Olympic year in 2012, Hay Festival Medals draw inspiration from the original Olympic medal given for poetry...

Posted 2 June 2021 Read more

Shape by Jordan Ellenberg is Hay Festival Book of the Month for June. The author joins us live online 29 June at 7pm while signed copies are over on our bookshop for sale now.

Posted 1 June 2021 Read more

Journalist and activist George Monbiot was awarded the Hay Festival Medal for Journalism today at Hay Festival 2021. Awarded annually since Britain’s Olympic year in 2012, Hay Festival Medals draw inspiration from the original Olympic medal given for poetry...

Posted 30 May 2021 Read more

Alethiometers at the ready! His Dark Materials stars Dafne Keen and Amir Wilson join series creators for a discussion about the blockbuster series based on Philip Pullman's books at Hay Festival 2021...

Posted 18 May 2021 Read more

Eccles Centre at the British Library y el Hay Festival han anunciado la apertura del plazo de solicitudes para el Premio de Literatura Eccles Centre & Hay Festival 2022. En su décima edición, el premio contará con una cuantía de £20,000 para los dos escritores, de ficción y/o no ficción, con un proyecto de libro aún no publicado sobre América (Norteamérica, Centroamérica, Sudamérica y el Caribe).

Publicado 4 mayo 2021 Ver más

The Eccles Centre at the British Library and Hay Festival are delighted to open the call for submissions for the 2022 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award. Now in its tenth year, the prize grants £20,000 annually to two writers – of fiction and/or non-fiction - for a yet-to-be-published book relating to the Americas (North, Central and South America and the Caribbean).

Posted 4 May 2021 Read more

Stefano Mancuso, autor de La nación de las plantas, nos cuenta las lecciones que los humanos debemos aprender de las plantas, en una charla digital que forma parte de Imagina el Mundo, el proyecto del Hay Festival que cuenta con el apoyo de su aliado regional SURA y la alianza de El País, con reflexiones sobre el momento actual.

Publicado 2 mayo 2021 Ver más

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota is Hay Festival Book of the Month for May. The author joins us live online 11 May at 7pm while signed copies are over on our bookshop for sale now.

Posted 1 May 2021 Read more

Cast lists for this year’s Hay Festival galas have been revealed with scheduled appearances from HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Redgrave, Romola Garai, Theresa Lola, Guvna B, Bishop Rose, Jessica Raine, Louise Brearley, Sindhu Vee, Rob Brydon, Hollie McNish, Rufus Mufasa and more...

Posted 1 May 2021 Read more