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A world of different opportunities 🦋 Hay Festival Comunitario events in Arequipa took writers direct to communities across the city this week with a series of conversations hosted by writer and coach Paula López Espinosa. Follow @hayfestivalesp.bsky.social for live updates.

A night to remember 🎶 Afra Kane opens Hay Festival Arequipa 2025. Follow @hayfestivalesp.bsky.social for live updates.

And we’re off. Officially opening the 11th edition of Hay Festival Arequipa in Peru 😎 Follow @hayfestivalesp.bsky.social for updates.

Peru, it’s time. Join us!

Step into a world of different stories with our latest @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social shelf – a reading list of books featured at Hay Festival Arequipa 2025. Dive in! uk.bookshop.org/lists/hay-fe...

On building community and fighting fascism, activists Oliver Knowles, James Sadri and Ben Stewart share the inside story of campaign group @ledbydonkeys.org in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime. Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime

A world of different opportunities 🦋 Scribblers Cymraeg is taking writers direct to Year 7–9 pupils across Wales this week with workshops led by poet Aneirin Karadog and writers Anni Llŷn and Mel Owen.

Time to shine, Hay!

Our Book Club pick for November is here – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, marking 100 years since its first publication. Join us! www.hayfestival.com/p-24396-hay-...

Haunting tales for an autumn night. Our Halloween playlist gathers readings and conversations to send a chill down your spine, featuring writers Mariana Enriquez, Sarah Moss, John Lanchester, Audrey Niffenegger, and more. Subscribe now! www.hayfestival.org/anytime

Applications are open! Fundacion Gabo and Hay Festival are looking for the next great travel story about Latin America or Spain. Apply for the 12th #MichaelJacobsGrant and compete for USD 10,000 to turn your article or book into reality.

Team believer or team sceptic? @dannyrobins.bsky.social takes us Into the Uncanny in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime, sharing chilling stories for Halloween week. Enjoy 👻 www.hayfestival.org/anytime

What’s been your favourite book of 2025? Share your nominations for Hay Festival Book of the Year 2025 and you could win an epic book bundle. Submit now! www.hayfestival.org/book-of-the-...

Arequipa, it’s nearly time! This evening, the Ambassador of Peru to the United Kingdom Ignacio Higueras Hare hosted writers, media and Festival supporters in celebration of Hay Festival Arequipa 2025.

Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist Mona Chalabi delivers the John Caldon memorial lecture in our free film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime. Dive in! www.hayfestival.com/anytime/

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Angela Saini on The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule at Hay Festival Forum Dallas with Nishanshi Shukla.

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CAN ANYONE TELL US WHERE KENNETH GOT HIS SWEATER FROM??!!

Open books, open minds. A joyful storytime at Hay Festival Forum Dallas with Brad Davidson and Rachel Más Davidson, creators of I Like Your Face.

Let’s go!

Day three starts now.

Together again 🫰

A Republic of Consciousness Prize spotlight on bold fiction and independent publishing – Rodrigo Fresán and Mark Haber talk to Lori Feathers at Hay Festival Forum Dallas. 📸: Kyle Montgomery

Poet, playwright, and cultural critic Claudia Rankine on taking the long view of progress, in conversation with Janelle Gray at Hay Festival Forum Dallas.

Two boundary-breaking novelists on language, intimacy, and the shape of the modern psyche – Katie Kitamura and Eimear McBride talk to Lori Feathers at Hay Festival Forum Dallas. 📸: Kyle Montgomery

Junot Díaz on blasphemous solidarities, in conversation with Paola Nagovitch at Hay Festival Forum Dallas.

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On dreams, detention, and the fight for freedom, novelist Laila Lalami in conversation with author Marcela Fuentes at Hay Festival Forum Dallas today. 📷: Kyle Montgomery

Where great minds meet.

Cartoonist Joe Sacco opened Hay Festival Forum Dallas 2025 last night with journalist Arwa Mahdawi. 📸: Kyle Montgomery

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Can’t make it to Dallas this weekend? Join us free online! www.hayfestival.org/dallas

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Ready, set...

This was a lot of fun, chatting to Michelle, one of my favourite authors, about her brilliant ghost story, Dark Matter. You can watch the discussion on the link below - and Michelle even reads a bit of the book - it will give you tingles down your spine! 😱👻

Novelist Michelle Paver reads from Dark Matter in our October Book Club session led by @dannyrobins.bsky.social last night. Enjoy! youtu.be/a6v3i-s-LIM?...

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Very much looking forward to chatting to one of my absolute favourite authors, @michellepaver.bsky.social tonight for the @hayfestival.bsky.social book club, about her brilliant ghost story 'Dark Matter' to coincide with the publishing of a new 15th anniversary edition of the book! Join us online!

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Historian @davidolusoga.bsky.social shares the forgotten stories of Black Britain in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime, part of our #BlackHistoryMonth spotlight. Dive in! www.hayfestival.org/anytime

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We’re marking #BannedBooksWeekUK with Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale as our free film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime. Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/

Check out @hayfestival.bsky.social Anytime for a series of #BannedBooksWeekUK conversations! With leading authors and their banned books including Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak, Toni Morrison, Marjane Satrapi and more: www.hayfestival.com/anytime/

Dame Jilly Cooper, 1937–2025. Thank you for the stories, always.

Colm Tóibín’s message to Ukraine, in conversation with Bohdan Kolomiychuk at Lviv BookForum 2025.