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#HayFestival2023 early-bird events are on general sale now, a preview of the treats to come 25 May-4 June.
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En route to Wales for a week with @hayfestival Scribblers Tour. Five hours of trains means lots of luvverly writing time - and it’s back to the drawing board for the next brain fart… I love this part of the process, anything is possible from here…xxx
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Correct answer 💖
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Replying to @SwanseaWriters and @hayfestival
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“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”
– Rosa Parks, born #OnThisDay in 1913.
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What's on your reading pile this weekend?
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Sum up Hay Festival in five words…
“Lost in books in Wales.”
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101 years ago Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s ULYSSES when nobody else would dare.
1 year ago we began a 5-month journey to bring this masterpiece to even more readers.
Listen to 100 episodes, 10 Bloomcasts & specials now: podfollow.com/sandcoulysses
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SO‼️BIG ANNOUNCEMENT‼️
Book-ish is coming to Abergavenny! As ever we're going to need all your help and encoragement to bring our new shop to life!
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-book-is
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This week's MYTHOLOGY playlist on #HayPlayer explores fresh perspectives on ancient stories, featuring events and discussions with , and more.
Subscribe now hayfestival.com/hayplayer/
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Lights out 🖤
Join the Decade of Darkness campaign to celebrate 10 years of dark skies breconbeacons.org/things-to-do/a
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February's newsletter is out now with...
📚 Reading inspiration
🎪 Free Cartagena highlights
🌺 News of our next events
✍️ Our *new* Meet the Haymaker Q&A
Sign up hayfestival.com/join-us.aspx
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We are so thrilled that The Library Suicides by is 's Book of the Month! Buy your copy of the haunting locked-room psychological thriller here bit.ly/3HO9xX5
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You can get in. But you can’t get out. Welcome to the library…
Our Book of the Month is The Library Suicides by former Hay Festival international fellow @FflurDafydd, a haunting reimagining of her award-winning novel Y Llyfrgell.
hayfestival.com/book-of-the-mo #HBOTM
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Happy World Read Aloud Day 📖
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“What was that sound that came in on the dark? What is this maze of light it leaves us in?”
– @DavidHarewood and others read from @AllieEsiri's anthology A Poet for Every Day of the Year in our free film of the week on Hay Player now hayfestival.org/hayplayer
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You can get in. But you can’t get out. Welcome to the library…
Our Book of the Month is The Library Suicides by former Hay Festival international fellow @FflurDafydd, a haunting reimagining of her award-winning novel Y Llyfrgell.
hayfestival.com/book-of-the-mo #HBOTM
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You can get in. But you can’t get out. Welcome to the library…
Our Book of the Month is The Library Suicides by former Hay Festival international fellow , a haunting reimagining of her award-winning novel Y Llyfrgell.
hayfestival.com/book-of-the-mo #HBOTM
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#Ukraine️️ (and me 😉 ) in Colombian press today.
Thank you for letting Latin America hear Ukrainian voices.
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An emotional moment to see these @Paperchains5 activity packs. They will be helping people to unlock their creative potential in prisons across the UK. @manwithbooks @Story_Machines @Outsiders_Proj @InsideTimeUK @AnthonyHorowitz @stephen_kelman @hayfestival @BBFC @pierslinney twitter.com/Paperchains5/s…
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If you ever get the chance, I can wholeheartedly recommend spending time listening to Natalie Haynes. Brilliant, intelligent and funny to boot!
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“What do women want? You to shut up.”
– @officialnhaynes on the male interpretation of Medusa, as she talks Stone Blind in our free film of the week on Hay Player now hayfestival.com/hayplayer
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I spend 2 nights in Cartagena having drinks with the mighty , and the next thing I know a Ukrainian publisher offers to translate and publish A Human History of Emotion.
Coincidence or synchronicity? Either way, I owe Andrey another drink.
Cartagena
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“What do women want? You to shut up.”
– on the male interpretation of Medusa, as she talks Stone Blind in our free film of the week on Hay Player now hayfestival.com/hayplayer
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Thank you for another weekend of wonder, Haymakers.
Highlights from Hay Festival Cartagena 2023 can be watched free online at hayfestival.com/cartagena/home
Next stop: Hay-on-Wye, 25 May-4 June.
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In 30 minutes, I leave Cartagena to travel to Barranquilla.
I can't begin to explain what a wonderful, stimulating and beautiful place this is. The people are kind, and there's music and dancing everywhere.
I will be back. I will definately be back.
Thank you
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“The reader is the one who makes a book happen, it doesn't happen in any other way.”
– Novelist Rachel Cusk in conversation with Margarita Valencia, live at Hay Festival Cartagena. Follow for live updates. #HayCartagena23
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Welcome to Cartagena 💖
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The venue is almost, but not quite, big enough to contain my ego.
@hayfestival @hayfestival_esp
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“People can come from different backgrounds and empathise with what they're reading. That's what literature does all the time.”
– Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez at #HayCartagena23 yesterday. Follow for updates.
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“The truth wins. I write about the truth. Although Putin prefers the lie.”
– in conversation with at Hay Festival Cartagena yesterday. Follow for live updates. #HayCartagena23
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Live today from #HayCartagena23 🎙
Register online to stream conversations including Richard Firth-Godbehere, , , , and more.
hayfestival.com/cartagena/home
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¡Último día de #HayCartagena23! Consulta horarios y sedes.
No pierdas la oportunidad de compartir conversación con @JosephEStiglitz, @avalaina, @Fonseca, @yayo_herrero, @e_paniagua, @SaninPazC, @SantiagoRojasMD y más.
Boletas y programa en: hayfestival.com/cartagena/inic
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If you keep saying the same thing, you hope that one day you won't ever have to say it again. Just when we're at our most interesting, we are made the most invisible in our ageist societies. With , Vice Minister of Education, Colombia Cartagena
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“Why is it that we live in such an agist society that older women become invisible in literature unless they’re demented?”
– @BernardineEvari in conversation with @AuroraVergaraF1 at Hay Festival Cartagena yesterday. Follow @hayfestival_esp for live updates. #HayCartagena23
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“To learn to be a writer, you have to learn to speak louder, to interrupt, to listen to your voice with more force.”
– Deborah Levy in conversation with at #HayCartagena23 yesterday. Follow for updates.
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A city for dreaming 💭
Our final day of Hay Festival Cartagena 2023 begins shortly. Follow for live updates. #HayCartagena23
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Oh, Cartagena 💛
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gracias, cartagena. gracias a mis colegas y amigos de @radioambulante. gracias @hayfestival.
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“Nunca uses tu escritura para transgredir la libertad de otros”. Qué grato compartir con Leonardo Padura. @hayfestival
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“There is no human life without nature, and there is no economy that does not rest on nature. We are always subject to nature itself.”
– in conversation with , Nilda Meléndez and Marta Ruiz at #HayCartagena23 yesterday. Follow for updates.
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“Why is it that we live in such an agist society that older women become invisible in literature unless they’re demented?”
– in conversation with at Hay Festival Cartagena yesterday. Follow for live updates. #HayCartagena23
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Talking about the future of democracy means talking about #Ukraine now.
With and Ivan Krastev at Cartagena 2023
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Live today from #HayCartagena23 🎙
Register online to stream conversations including Deborah Levy, Abdulrazak Gurnah, , , , , Rachel Cusk and more.
hayfestival.com/cartagena/home
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¡Tercer día de #HayCartagena23! Consulta los horarios y sedes.
Conversaciones con Abdulrazak Gurnah, Leonardo Padura, @RSilvaRomero, @lydiacachosi, @radioambulante, @JUANES, @Sanchezbaute, @YasnayaEG y más.
Compra boletas y consulta el programa en: hayfestival.com/cartagena/inic
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