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Hay Festival and the BBC have today unveiled the full line-up for the BBC Tent at Hay Festival Wales 2019 along with broader coverage for the Festival...

Posted 15 April 2019 Read more

Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is Hay Festival Book of the Month for April, a generous, honest and true memoir full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life.

Posted 1 April 2019 Read more

Hay Festival has today announced the programme for its 32nd edition in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, 23 May to 2 June. Award-winning writers gather to launch new work, while global policy makers, pioneers and innovators seek solutions to the biggest issues of our time, from the rise of populism to the climate crisis...

Posted 26 March 2019 Read more

Hay Festival ha anunciado hoy el cambio de imagen de su marca a nivel internacional, diseñada por Pentagram, para ser la imagen de sus festivales, foros, proyectos especiales, Hay Player y la Fundación Hay Festival.

Publicado 21 marzo 2019 Read more

An international brand refresh, designed by Pentagram, encompasses Hay Festival events, forums, special projects, digital player and Hay Festival Foundation. 

Posted 21 March 2019 Read more

Hay Festival is championing the importance of reading for pleasure in a new campaign with TES, calling for the public to share their most inspirational reading recommendations with #BooksToInspire.

Posted 4 March 2019 Read more

Hay Festival has today unveiled its 2019 free Programme for Schools for Thursday 23 and Friday 24 May, featuring a dazzling line-up of children’s and YA favourites.

Posted 4 March 2019 Read more

Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways is Hay Festival Book of the Month for March, a genre-defining meditation on walking that blends natural history with travel writing, evoking the beauty of an underappreciated landscape.

Posted 1 March 2019 Read more

The Bookseller has today announced the YA Book Prize 2019 shortlist, which features books by the award’s inaugural winner Louise O’Neill, as well as Juno Dawson, Laura Dockrill and début author Muhammad Khan.

Posted 28 February 2019 Read more

Hay Festival is inviting new applications for Writers at Work, a professional development opportunity for Welsh writers, in partnership with Literature Wales, funded by Arts Council of Wales.

Posted 27 February 2019 Read more

Hay Festival and Serious Readers will join forces to create a new space for book lovers at Hay Festival 2019 - the Serious Reading Room - in a new partnership announced today...

Posted 19 February 2019 Read more

La XIV edición del Hay Festival que engalanó a Colombia con letras, imágenes, notas musicales, conversaciones sobre economía, ciencia, activismo, y un sinnúmero de ideas transformadoras. Durante más de cuatro días, a través de más de 190 eventos en escenarios de Cartagena, Medellín, Jericó y varios municipios, mas de 60.000 personas disfrutaron de esta gran fiesta de la cultura.

Publicado 5 febrero 2019 Read more

More than 60,000 people attend Hay Festival events in Colombia over the past fortnight, with writers and readers gathering for conversations and performances in Cartagena, Medellín, and, for the first time, Jericó.

Posted 5 February 2019 Read more

Hip-Hop artist and poet Karl Nova releases Scribbling Dreams to mark the start of Hay Festival Scribblers Tour 2019, which takes writers direct to pupils all over Wales for the next fortnight...

Posted 4 February 2019 Read more

Hay Festival has signed a new three-year agreement with the Municipality of the City of Querétaro, Mexico, securing the future of Hay Festival Querétaro for a further three years, with three speakers already announced for 2019...

Posted 3 February 2019 Read more

El Municipio de Querétaro y el Hay Festival han cimentado la presencia del festival para al menos tres ediciones más. Ambas instituciones han firmado la alianza en el marco de su edición hermana de Cartagena de Indias. El Hay Festival Querétaro 2019 se celebrará del 5 al 8 de septiembre.

Publicado 3 febrero 2019 Read more

Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak is Hay Festival Book of the Month for February, a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal...

Posted 1 February 2019 Read more

Today begins the first Hay Festival Jericó, with the screening of Jericó, el infinito vuelo de los días documentary film. Literature, journalism, music and environment will be the topics to be discussed in the following three cultural days, which are the beginning of Hay Festival events in Colombia.

Posted 25 January 2019 Read more

Hoy 25 de enero comienza el primer Hay Festival Jericó con la proyección del documental Jericó, el infinito vuelo de los días. Literatura, periodismo, música y medioambiente serán los temas que se tratarán durante todo el fin de semana. ¡Bienvenidos a nuestra programación, Jericó!

Publicado 25 enero 2019 Read more

Jimmy Carr, Stacey Dooley, The Gipsy Kings, The Waterboys and Spell Songs join 32nd Hay Festival in Hay on Wye, 23 May-2 June...

Posted 23 January 2019 Read more