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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

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

The Sleeping Beauties by Suzanne O'Sullivan is Hay Festival Book of the Month for July. The neurologist joins us live online 22 July at 7pm while signed copies are available to buy in the Festival shop. 

Posted 1 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