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Escape the day-to-day 🦋 Your full Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye 2024 programme is out now. Enjoy!

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Congratulations @CaroleCadwalla 🎖️Winner of the #HayFestival2019 Medal for Journalism

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Congratulations @AliceOseman , recipient of the #HayFestival2023 Medal for Fiction. 📸: Sam Hardwick

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During 2021’s spring lockdown, Benjamin Zephaniah contributed this short reading for our online event. It was a gift then. And now. People will always need people 🦋

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Congratulations Lyse Doucet ( @bbclysedoucet ), recipient of the #HayFestival2022 Medal for Journalism.

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"Taking the eggs out of a baked cake" - @MrJamesOB on #Brexit at #HayFestival2018

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Surprise, #Heartstopper fans! To celebrate @AliceOseman 's #HayFestival2023 appearance, our friends @shepherdsices have created a special-edition flavour, available exclusively on site in a cone, tub, or even a milkshake. 🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂

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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful" - Mary Shelley, born #OnThisDay in 1797.

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"A town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul" - @neilhimself #BookshopDay

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“Independence…is not about turning away from the rest of the UK, Europe or the world.” – Nicola Sturgeon speaks to Katya Adler about Scottish independence. #HayFestival2022 @NicolaSturgeon @BBCkatyaadler

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Congratulations @GeorgeMonbiot , recipient of the Hay Festival 2021 Medal for Journalism, honouring a career in which he has worked tirelessly to shine light on one of the biggest issues of our times. At this pivotal moment in history, we need voices like his more than ever.

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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.” – A.A. Milne, born #OnThisDay in 1882, in The House at Pooh Corner (illustrated by E.H. Shepard) #WinnieThePoohDay

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"YouTube is more of a platform, not a genre of entertainment" @Caspar_Lee at #HayFestival

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It's official. Book now to see Benedict Cumberbatch live at #HayFestival2018 x @letterslive , Sunday 3 June:

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"Our biggest health challenges are interconnected." - @devisridhar gave a prescient talk on global health alongside @ChelseaClinton at Hay Festival 2018. Worth another watch over on #HayPlayer now

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“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath, born #OnThisDay in 1932.

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A bit of @TheMontyDon reading in tonight's #Wordsworth250 event. We'll be loading the full session to YouTube shortly to watch freely. Bear with us...

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"Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you" - @BarackObama , born #OnThisDay in 1961 #quoteoftheday

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"Do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that." - Tove Jansson, born #OnThisDay in 1914 #QOTD

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Welcome to Hay, @HillaryClinton . 📸: @billie_charity

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"You have to give people hope" @RussellTovey reads Harvey Milk at #HayFestival2019 Great Speeches Gala 🏳️‍🌈

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“Why are some people so angry, and so ready to be led by that anger?” – @michaelsheen talks modern society and culture in our free film of the week on #HayPlayer . Watch now

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Your annual reminder that Jólabókaflóð is a thing we should all be doing.

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Rest in power, Benjamin Zephaniah 🦋 Thank you for everything.

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HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visited Hay-on-Wye today, joining local Y5 pupils, writers, the Festival team and supporters in a special reception to celebrate the success of this year’s Hay Festival at Richard Booth’s Bookshop @ClarenceHouse 📸: @billie_charity

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Labour MP Jess Phillips explains why she thinks Boris Johnson has created a “dangerous environment” for UK politics. #HayFestival2022 @jessphillips

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Rejoice! A new bookshop is born to our Town of Books! 💖 @Gayonwye 💖 Spread the word...

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“On the one hand we’re seeing more women in senior positions but at the same time that whole environment is becoming much more hostile for women…” – First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon on women in public life. #HayFestival2022 @NicolaSturgeon

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A director's cut of our #Wordsworth250 gala, featuring extra contributions including this new reading from Benedict Cumberbatch, is up on #HayPlayer now 📖 #ImagineTheWorld

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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.” - A.A. Milne, born #OnThisDay in 1882, in The House at Pooh Corner (illustrated by E.H. Shepard). #WinnieThePoohDay

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If you're sick of Brexit, ditch Brexit. @DMiliband at #hayfestival2018

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(Unofficial) word of the day is Merryneum: the blurry space between Christmas and the New Year.

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100+ writers and performers join us to #ImagineTheWorld , 18-31 May. Register for free at

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“For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.” – Paul Auster in The Brooklyn Follies. RIP.

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“For way too long, the politicians and the people in power have gotten away with not doing anything to fight the climate crisis... We are striking because we have done our homework and they have not” - Greta Thunberg #QOTD #WorldEarthDay

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“This government’s always talking about social mobility and creating a level playing field, so why aren’t they protecting libraries?”

Malorie Blackman and Stormzy at Hay: ‘Libraries are the great equaliser’

The pair discussed the power of literature, representation and five years of #Merky Books

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Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford on compassion and grief during the pandemic, in conversation with @DrHenryMarsh , Andrii Myzak, Yurii Prokhasko and Iryna Tsybukh at Lviv BookForum yesterday. Watch now →

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“What's happened to that fairer deal? Where is that vision of unity and common purpose now?” – @michaelsheen talks culture, society and the humane vision and tradition that Aneurin Bevan inspires in our free film of the week on #HayPlayer now. Enjoy

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5 years

Did someone order some books? #HayFestival2019

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40 writers. 15 events. Free online, 6-9 October. Join @MargaretAtwood , @Elif_Safak , @SPlokhy , @SamarYazbek , Kateryna Kalytko, Neil Gaiman, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Abdulrazak Gurnah and more as Ukraine’s @bookforumlviv streams live to the world. Register >

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Full programme out now. General booking opens Friday. Welcome back, Haymakers 💛 #HayFestival2022

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“It was so fun. Well, actually, I was terrified.” – Heartstopper author @AliceOseman on her cameo in the Netflix adaptation in our free film of the week on #HayPlayer . Watch now

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General booking is now open. Roll up, roll up, Haymakers 🎪 #HayFestival2022

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"If there is a heaven, it's going to be a library" - @MichaelRosenYes #HayFestival2019

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Hay Festival Digital begins today with our first free Programme for Schools broadcasts. Watch now at 📖 #ImagineTheWorld

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"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness" - Hay Festival president @stephenfry , who celebrates his birthday today #qotd

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#HayFestival2021 / @DrScottMorgan talks to @stephenfry about his memoir Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg.

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2 years

Book shopping with @NicolaSturgeon ... State of Terror by @HillaryClinton and Louise Penny ✅ The Authority Gap by @MASieghart ✅ Paper Cup by @writerkcampbell ✅ Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor ✅ #HayFestival2022

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"Those who speak of ‘toxic masculinity’ are not criticising men, but rather defending them: describing an ideology and a system that pressures the boys and men in our societies, in our families, to conform to unrealistic, unhealthy and unsustainable ideals" - Laura Bates.

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"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one" - Terry Prachett, born #OnThisDay in 1948 #qotd

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"You need to create an empty space in your mind so that enlightenment can enter in" - @TheMontyDon #HayFestival2019

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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" - Jorge Luis Borges, born #OnThisDay in 1899.

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250+ writers and performers join us online for #HayFestival2021 , 26 May-6 June. Explore the free programme OUT NOW 🟡

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Teachers and parents: all of our schools events can be watched for free at to help you and your children while they're learning from home.

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"For nearly a decade, men have sent me daily messages, often in their hundreds, outlining their hatred of me, fantasising about my brutal rape and murder, detailing which weapons they would use to slice my body open and disembowel me" - Laura Bates #HayBookoftheMonth

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And the numbers are in... #ImagineTheWorld

Coronavirus: Almost 500,000 stream first online Hay Festival

The 33rd edition of the literary event was broadcast online due to the coronavirus crisis.

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We sold 273k tickets to #HayFestival2018 (up 18k on 2017). People travelled from over 40 countries to be with us, ranging from Afghanistan to Argentina

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Judi Dench and Benedict Cumberbatch perform a scene from Twelfth Night, in our free film of the week on Hay Player now

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“Language is courage.” – Salman Rushdie.

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“Women's rights are human rights and vice versa. The more equality there is in society - not just for women but for everyone, regardless of age or sex, socioeconomic status or race - the happier society will turn out to be." - @MargaretAtwood #TheHandmaidsTale #HayFestival2018

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Ready to welcome the world 💚

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Margaret Atwood @MargaretAtwood on the inspiration behind The Handmaid's Tale, in conversation with with Yurii Prokhasko at Lviv BookForum yesterday. Watch now →

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"To me, the NHS is a hope, an image of how we can be as a society, a blueprint of how we can behave together for good" - @MichaelRosenYes #HayFestival

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"Never be cool. Never try to be cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Head for the warm people. Life is warmth. You’ll be cool when you’re dead." - @matthaig1 in Notes on a Nervous Planet, the subject of our free film of the week on #HayPlayer now

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A statement from Caroline Michel, chair of Hay Festival.

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“I have always loved playing around with words. I didn’t know it was called poetry.” – Benjamin Zephaniah, born #OnThisDay in 1958.

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Congratulations @lydiacachosi , winner of the Hay Festival 2020 Medal for Journalism 🏅 #ImagineTheWorld

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100 essential books by women writers from the last 100 years - here are the results of our #vote100books campaign with @thepooluk in honour of the votes for women centenary

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What's the one thing better than having @TheMontyDon at #HAY30 ? Having his dog, Nigel:

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"We need books more than ever before. We need both fiction and non-fiction" - @Elif_Safak 📖 #ImagineTheWorld

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This week's free film on #HayPlayer sees Judi Dench talk Shakespeare with Richard Eyre and guest star Benedict Cumberbatch

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Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval on the most important lesson of history, in conversation with @neilhimself and Sevgil Musayeva at Lviv BookForum. Watch again →

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Storyteller Michael Rosen explains how an annual hockey game, held as a memorial to his son Eddie, helps him deal with the loss. #HayFestival2023 | @MichaelRosenYes

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"Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge" - Simon Armitage, the UK's new Poet Laureate

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"Language has little meaning unless it is shared. And memory shared is belonging." Mererid Hopwood's breathtaking Hay Festival Digital lecture is our free film of the week on #HayPlayer now at

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Thank you 💙 #HayFestival2018

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Ready to welcome the world... #HayFestival2019 (📸: @yazza73 )

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#GIVEAWAY | RT and follow for the chance to #WIN a SIGNED COPY of The Handmaid's Tale by @MargaretAtwood , who joins us at #HayFestival2018 this May. Closes midnight 04.02.18.

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"Nor had I understood till then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others" - Philip Roth, born #onthisday in 1933, in The Plot Against America #qotd

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“They saved my life. They are the reason I became a writer.”

Libraries should be ‘ringfenced and protected’, Malorie Blackman says

Former children’s laureate tells Hay festival audience that her local library was essential to her career as a writer

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"Do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent - lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that" - Tove Jansson, born #OnThisDay in 1914.

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Douglas Stuart on the 10-year process of writing Shuggie Bain, in conversation with @DUALIPA yesterday for a live recording of her @service95 At Your Service podcast. #HayFestival2023 | @Doug_D_Stuart

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"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence" - Jan Morris, born #OnThisDay in 1926.

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"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves" - Mary Wollstonecraft, born #OnThisDay in 1759 #qotd

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All good things... Thank you for coming, Haymakers. #HayFestival2022

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This is perfect, via @drakebookshop

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Let's talk. Let's listen. Your #HayFestival2019 programme is online now. Tickets go on general sale this Friday

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Actor and activist @michaelsheen will join the professor @DanielGwydion and @LeanneWood to discuss the life, work, and continued relevance of Raymond Williams. Register for Who Speaks for Wales at

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“Consistency of motivation is more important than the intensity of motivation” - Arsène Wenger talking with @eltonofficial ⚽ #HayWinterWeekend

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"There should be no shame in admitting to being wrong. Instead, we should be applauded for our honesty, humility and emotional intelligence" - @mrjamesob #HayWinterWeekend

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⭐️ EVENT ⭐️ UPDATE ⭐️ Benedict Cumberbatch joins the line-up for our second @letterslive show at Hay Festival 2022. Book now

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Who speaks for Wales? @michaelsheen @DanielGwydion and @LeanneWood discuss in an event to mark 100 years of Raymond Williams in this week's free film on #HayPlayer now

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"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" - Raymond Williams, born #OnThisDay in 1921.

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"This is a generational issue. Young people don’t seem to need history to be a soft play area in the way that their parents or grandparents do" - @DavidOlusoga #HayWinterWeekend

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Hay-on-Wye earlier this year, under a dusting straight out of Dickens.

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Thank you, everyone, for a week of wonders. Safe home. See you next year XXX

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"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it" - Roald Dahl #RoaldDahlDay #ThursdayThoughts

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. @DrBrianMay is coming to #HAY30 to give his FIRST public talk on ‘QUEEN in 3-D’. Oh, and 3-D glasses are provided:

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Congratulations @BZephaniah , recipient of the Hay Festival 2021 Medal for Poetry. His work has inspired generation after generation of readers while progressing vital conversations in the UK and around the world.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first day of live events. If you enjoyed yourself and can afford to, please consider donating to support us at . And here's to more fun tomorrow... #ImagineTheWorld

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