The Eccles Centre at the British Library is joining forces with Hay Festival on the Centre's £20,000 Writer’s Award, which will become the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hay Festival is hosting two new events in Latin America: Hay Festival Forum Ayacucho in Peru and Hay Festival Forum Santiago in Chile. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s and YA authors including Emma Carroll and Alex Wheatle will speak to school pupils in Wales next February as part of Hay Festival’s Scribblers Tour. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The economic impact of the Hay Festival on the local area has totalled more than £70m in the past three years, according to research carried out for the event. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 50th anniversary 'Golden Man Booker Prize' will go to one of the five titles shortlisted from five decades of previous winners. The public now is voting to determine which of these books will be most 'golden' of all. The post At the Hay Festival, the Man Booker Prize Announces Its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hay Festival is launching a new initiative to live stream its “Schools Days” UK-wide following last year's pilot in Wales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood, David Walliams and Jacqueline Wilson are amongst those headlining the Hay Festival, which is set to respond to the world's “urgent need of empathy”, according to organisers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hay Festival is partnering with The Pool on a public campaign to select 100 books by women from the last 100 years to be celebrated at its festivals in the UK and around the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
As part of the launch of Hay Festival's Latin American anthology, 'Bogotá39-2017,' author Samanta Schweblin and editor Sara Malagón talk about labels and gender. The post In Colombia, A Discussion of ‘Women’s Fiction’ Versus Fiction by Women appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hay Festival has appointed Jonathan Godfrey OBE, former principal of Hereford Sixth Form College, to its board of directors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hay Festival's first weekend has kicked off with a host of events featuring writers including Colm Tóibín, Helen Fielding and Stephen Fry who discussed issues such as using flashbacks in writing, criticisms of anti-feminism and "aggregating news agencies" such as Facebook. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Hay Festival, which opens later this week for its 30th year, is to release a book of Hay Festival Conversations: Thirty Conversations for Thirty Years to mark the anniversary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Hay Festival has agreed to continue to fund part of Hay-on-Wye Library’s operating costs offering a “short-term fix for a long-term problem". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten years after publishing its original edition, the Hay Festival in Colombia announces the authors in the latest Bogotá39 anthology. The post Hay Festival Announces Bogotá39-2017 Anthology of Latin American Authors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Christopher Bone, formerly senior communications manager at FMcM Associates, has been appointed to the new role of publicity director for Hay Festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Howard Jacobson and Mervyn King, former governor of the bank of England, are amongst the first speakers to appear in this year’s Hay Levels, a series of educational videos for A-Level students from the Hay Festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Live events are having a direct impact on book sales in the children's market, according to Julia Eccleshare, children's director for Hay Festival, speaking at The Bookseller's Children's Conference this afternoon (27th September). Eccleshare said she thought live performances were not only a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tom Jones tells the Hay Festival that his wife, who died last month, was the "most important thing" in his life. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BBC today relaunched Love to Read, a campaign that celebrates reading for pleasure, at Hay Festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hay Festival has announced Hay Levels Live, a new initiative offering Sixth Form students the opportunity to quiz distinguished speakers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]