Noticias y Blogs

Hay Festival has today announced two new additions to its global schedule of events – Hay Forum Sevilla in Spain, 6–8 October 2023, and Hay Forum Ciudad de Panamá in Panama, 23–24 January 2024. 

Posted 21 September 2023 Read more

Hay Festival Scribblers Cymraeg is back across Wales this autumn with three additional days, 6–10 November, inviting Year 7–9 pupils to get creative in Welsh at Swansea University and Aberystwyth University, plus – new for this year – Cardiff University, Bangor University and Wrexham University. 

Posted 6 September 2023 Read more

Ukrainian literature will be brought to a global audience of millions in the hybrid Lviv BookForum programme, broadcasting online 5–8 October in partnership with literary charity Hay Festival. 

Posted 24 August 2023 Read more

La VIII edición del Hay Festival Querétaro 2023 se llevará a cabo entre el 7 y el 10 de septiembre con la participación de dos premios Nobel: Serge Haroche (Premio Nobel de Ciencia) y Carlos Umaña (Premio Nobel de la Paz), escritores/as como Hernán Díaz, Liliana Colanzi, John Boyne, Muriel Barbery, Goran Petrović, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Manuel Vilas, Brenda Navarro, Douglas Stuart, Gaëlle Obiégly, Geoff Dyer, Fernanda Melchor o Irene Solà; científicos como Anil Seth; economistas como Ha-Joon Chang y Thomas Porcher; investigadoras como Carissa Véliz, Andrea Wulf o Fortino Domínguez; un programa lleno de artes y música con: Andrea Echeverri (Aterciopelados), Galen&Paul (con Paul Simonon); espectáculos como Mi madre muerta (danza con Greta García y Alberto Cortés), La noche de las alienadas (teatro) y conversaciones con el actor Gael García Bernal y el cineasta Fernando León de Aranoa.

Posted 29 June 2023 Read more

Hay Festival has today announced the line-up for the eighth Hay Festival Querétaro in Mexico with more than 151 artists from 20 countries taking part in person, 7–10 September 2023.

Posted 29 June 2023 Read more

Hay Festival 2023 closed Sunday 4 June after more than 500 events brought thousands of writers and readers together over 11 days of programming to inspire, examine and entertain. 

Posted 6 June 2023 Read more

Ukrainian storytelling will be brought to a global audience of millions this year through an expanded partnership between Ukraine’s largest literature festival, Lviv BookForum, and leading literary charity and global ideas platform Hay Festival. 

Posted 2 June 2023 Read more

Mark Drakeford MS, First Minister of Wales will appear at Hay Festival on Saturday 3 June at 1pm in a free event in conversation with writer and activist Tom Bullough.

Posted 25 May 2023 Read more

Hay Festival has today announced the participants of this year’s Writers at Work, a creative development programme for emerging Welsh talent at Hay Festival 2023 (25 May–4 June) with the support of Literature Wales, funded by Arts Council of Wales.

Posted 22 May 2023 Read more

On the eve of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 final, Hay Festival has unveiled the list of titles to be celebrated in the Eurovision Book Contest following thousands of public submissions.

Posted 12 May 2023 Read more

Hay Festival and green energy experts Hive Energy have today (#EarthDay) launched Planet Assembly, a pioneering use of civic space that will explore dynamic solutions to regenerate the planet. The assembly is being convened as a driver for change that meets the urgency for action to save our planet. 

Posted 22 April 2023 Read more

Forty-one new events have been added to the Hay Festival 2023 line-up, including the full schedule of free BBC Marquee broadcasts. 

Posted 6 April 2023 Read more

Hay Festival has today relaunched Writers at Work, a creative development programme for emerging Welsh talent at Hay Festival 2023 (25 May–4 June) with the support of Literature Wales, funded by Arts Council of Wales.

Posted 4 April 2023 Read more

Recipients for 2023 are Mererid Hopwood (Medal for Poetry), Alice Oseman (Medal for Fiction), Serhiy Zhadan (Medal for Songwriting) and Salman Rushdie (Medal for Prose). 

Posted 28 March 2023 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 conversations, 25-26 May, kicking-off the full Festival running 25 May-4 June 2023.  

Posted 21 March 2023 Read more

Hay Festival has unveiled the full programme for its 36th spring edition in Hay-on-Wye, with more than 500 in-person events over 11 days, 25 May-4 June 2023. 

Posted 14 March 2023 Read more

Ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest landing in the UK this May, Hay Festival is launching a special project to explore and celebrate the most dazzling European literature, inviting audiences to champion old favourites and discover new recommendations with the Eurovision Book Contest.

Posted 9 March 2023 Read more

El proyecto Sala de cine, archivo de la memoria disidente y estudio de música en un barrio de alta vulnerabilidad de Lima, de Verónica Ferrari Gálvez es el ganador de la primera Beca Hay Festival. Así, Cursiva y Hay Festival cubrirán el costo íntegro de la matrícula del curso de Gestión Cultural impartido por ambas instituciones, y valorado en 599€.

Más información sobre el Curso de Gestión Cultural del Hay Festival y Cursiva.

Publicado 22 febrero 2023 Ver más

Hay Festival Scribblers Tour closed on Friday 17 February after bringing five exceptional YA writers direct to more than 5,000 Year 7-10 school pupils across Wales.

Posted 18 February 2023 Read more

Freelance illustrator Beth Suzanna has been awarded this year’s Hay Festival Illustrator in Residence position, revealed today alongside her design for the Hay Festival 2023 programme cover.

Posted 14 February 2023 Read more