News, Blogs & Updates

Novelist Alys Conran from North Wales has been named recipient of the Cymrawd Rhyngwladol Cymru Greadigol Gwyl y Gelli / Hay Festival Creative Wales International Fellowship for 2019-2020.

Posted 3 July 2019 Read more

Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon is Hay Festival Book of the Month for July, the bestselling story of Hiccup, the heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne who's finding it hard to be a hero...

Posted 1 July 2019 Read more

El Hay Festival Segovia 2019 ha anunciado la programación de su 14ª edición, que se celebrará del 19 al 22 de septiembre. Destacan las conversaciones sobre el futuro de Europa y del poder de la ficción para cambiar nuestra forma de pensar.

Publicado 28 junio 2019 Read more

Kathy Lette, Dr. Anna Kennedy OBE, and Mikey Kay join the line-up for Autism: Re-imagining Our Potential, a two-day event run by Hay Festival and Ruskin Mill Trust to explore and celebrate neurodiversity, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 July 2019...

Posted 27 June 2019 Read more

Hay Festival Segovia has today announced the programme for its 14th edition, 19-22 September 2019, with conversations on the future of Europe and the power of fiction to change minds leading the programming, while free events and art installations transform the city’s public spaces...

Posted 26 June 2019 Read more

La cuarta edición del Hay Festival Querétaro se realizará del próximo 5 al 8 de septiembre en la capital queretana con más de 120 invitados internacionales de diferentes disciplinas

Publicado 13 junio 2019 Read more

Writers, innovators and a former President lead the Hay Festival Querétaro 2019 programme, launched online today...

Posted 12 June 2019 Read more

Hay Festival 2019 closed Sunday 2 June after 600 award-winning writers, global policy makers, performers, pioneers and innovators joined readers from around the world in events across 11 days...

Posted 2 June 2019 Read more

The Eccles Centre at the British Library has opened submissions for the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2020...

Posted 1 June 2019 Read more

The Bookseller's YA Book Prize has gone to Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard in its fifth year, a novel about the impact of a teacher-student relationship published by Macmillan Children’s Books...

Posted 30 May 2019 Read more

El Hay Festival ha anunciado hoy la selección de mujeres del ámbito de la literatura, la ciencia y las artes que participarán en un nuevo proyecto global sobre las perspectivas de futuro de Europa...

Publicado 27 mayo 2019 Read more

Hay Festival has today announced the selection of women writers, artists and scientists taking part in a new global project reimagining the future of Europe...

Posted 27 May 2019 Read more

Author Nina Stibbe was today presented with the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for her novel Reasons to be Cheerful at the Hay Festival...

Posted 26 May 2019 Read more

Hay Festival and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have today unveiled Trans.MISSION II, a new global project pairing leading environmental researchers with award-winning storytellers to communicate cutting-edge science to new audiences...

Posted 25 May 2019 Read more

On the opening day of Hay Festival Wales (23 May-2 June), Hay Festival and Tes have unveiled the results of their joint #BooksToInspire campaign...

Posted 23 May 2019 Read more

El Hay Festival Segovia ha anunciado un adelanto de su programación del 2019, con la confirmación de Inua Ellams, Jeanne Gang,Adam Michnik, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Maite Pagazaurtundúa y Fernando Savater entre otros. El festival se celebrará del 19 al 22 de septiembre y las entradas ya están a la venta.

Publicado 10 mayo 2019 Read more

Hay Festival Segovia (20-22 September 2019) has today announced the first highlights of the programme for its 14th edition, including Inua Ellams, Jeanne Gang, Adam Michnik, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Maite Pagazaurtundúa and Fernando Savater.

Posted 9 May 2019 Read more

Elipsis, el programa literario para escritores y editores emergentes del British Council, realizado por primera vez en México el año 2018 en colaboración con el Hay Festival, ha dado sus frutos en una antología presentada durante la Feria del Libro y la Rosa en Ciudad de México. 

Publicado 4 mayo 2019 Read more

Anita Anand's Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary is Hay Festival Book of the Month for May, the extraordinary story of Sophia Duleep Singh, a woman born into riches who became a passionate campaigner for women's suffrage...

Posted 1 May 2019 Read more

Hay Festival has today unveiled the line-up of Welsh writers taking part in the 2019 Writers at Work creative development programme at Hay Festival Wales (23 May – 2 June), including five new writers.

Posted 25 April 2019 Read more