News, Blogs & Updates

Hay Festival and the BBC have today unveiled the full line-up for the BBC Marquee at Hay Festival 2022 along with broader coverage for the Festival, 26 May-5 June...

Posted 17 May 2022 Read more

TikTok and Hay Festival have today announced an exclusive new partnership that will see the platform become Digital Media Partner to Hay Festival 2022...

Posted 16 May 2022 Read more

Hay Festival Chair Caroline Michel is delighted to announce the appointment of Julie Finch as Chief Executive Officer of Hay Festival. The appointment was made on behalf of Hay Festival’s Board of Directors after an extensive nationwide recruitment process... 

Posted 3 May 2022 Read more

Awarded annually since Britain’s 2012 Olympic year, Hay Festival Medals draw inspiration from the original Olympic medal for poetry. With Athena as muse, silversmith Christopher Hamilton crafts them locally... 

Posted 22 April 2022 Read more

Former US Secretary of State, First Lady and US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will appear at Hay Festival 2022 in conversation with lawyer Helena Kennedy on Thursday 2 June as part of the Festival’s Women & Power series... 

Posted 19 April 2022 Read more

Hay Festival has unveiled the full programme for its 35th spring edition in Hay-on-Wye, with more than 500 in-person events over 11 days, 26 May–5 June 2022.

Posted 5 April 2022 Read more

Hay Festival has today revealed the free Programme for Schools for this spring’s edition, bringing writers and young readers together in-person and online for a series of inspiring interactive activities and workshops, 26-27 May, ahead of the main programme 26 May-5 June 2022.

Posted 29 March 2022 Read more

Dos años después de que la cultura y el mundo cambiaran, producto del confinamiento y los efectos de la pandemia, el Hay Festival regresó a Jericó, Medellín y Cartagena, con una oferta que combinó los eventos presenciales, digitales e híbridos, con públicos que llenaron todos los escenarios, tanto en las ciudades como en los eventos virtuales.

Publicado 31 enero 2022 Ver más

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)... 

Posted 2 December 2021 Read more

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