Stormzy and Tracey Emin join Hay festival 2023 lineup
The UK’s best-known literary festival has a new CEO and promises ‘11 days of different’ as it unveils its full lineup featuring Richard Osman, Dua Lipa, Margaret Atwood and more
Hay festival to hold inaugural Eurovision book contest
Submissions will be made by the public as books festival parters with famed music event for a literary showdown
‘Something for everybody’: Dua Lipa joins Margaret Atwood on Hay festival 2023 lineup
Pop star and Booker prize winner will both appear at the literary festival in Wales next year along with rock duo the Proclaimers and poet laureate Simon Armitage
‘Hope matters’: Ukrainian and international authors on why literature is important in times of conflict
Ten writers appearing at the Lviv BookForum, run this year in partnership with the Hay festival, discuss why we need books more than ever
Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman among authors signed up for Ukrainian book festival
Lviv BookForum is partnering with Hay festival for a programme of in-person and online events, which will be streamed free from 6-9 October
UK and Ukraine book festivals partner to protect freedom of expression
Hay festival’s CEO describes partnership with Lviv BookForum as ‘an act of solidarity’ as Ukrainian writers look to ‘tell our true story and why we are fighting’
Are literary festivals doomed? Why book events need to change
After the pandemic, books festivals have to reassess their viability, say new organisers hoping to engage more diverse audiences
Authors at Hay festival weigh the meaning of authenticity
Who can write about whom was a running question, tackled by writers from Rose Tremain to Damon Galgut
Bernardine Evaristo fears publishers may lose interest in black authors
Diversity in book industry must be sustained, and start at the top, Booker prize-winning author tells Hay festival
The Queen’s successors will not be able to create her ‘mystique’, says writer
Tina Brown, author of The Palace Papers, says monarch’s image stems from time before ‘great media age’
Workplaces as run down as parliament would cause picketing, says Jess Phillips
Labour MP tells Hay festival that Palace of Westminster is ‘falling apart’ and would be condemned if it were any other building
Lenny Henry criticises TV streamers’ commissioning tactics
Comedian says BBC approach is better as the focus is on the story being pitched rather than whether it will sell
Jacqueline Wilson: my mother slept with a gun under her pillow
Children’s author says she told her elderly mother to get rid of it as she was terrified of being mistakenly shot
Monica Ali ‘terrified’ of writing sex scenes in new novel
Brick Lane author says fear of winning Bad Sex award loomed over writing of latest book, Love Marriage
British empire nostalgia played part in Brexit vote, says Nobel laureate
Abdulrazak Gurnah said imperial attitudes were fuelled by the government withholding details of Britain’s colonial past