Hay Festival 2026 display packs

Hay Festival 2026 display packs

Get ready for Hay Festival 2026!

Libraries, colleges and bookshops are invited to join the countdown to the world’s biggest book festival this spring for a chance to WIN a golden ticket.

200 promotional packs are available to request.

Packs (English and Welsh) include:

  • Pack of bookmarks
  • A3 and A4 posters
  • A bundle of leaflets
  • Paper bunting 


Digital assets can be downloaded here. And full print programmes can be requested directly from the Festival via kathryn@hayfestival.org.

Create a Hay Festival display for the chance to WIN a golden ticket!

Take a photo of your Hay Festival 2026-themed display and email to kathryn@hayfestival.org to be entered into a prize draw to win a golden ticket to this year’s event.

And spread the word…

Hay Festival brings readers of all ages together with a programme to inspire, examine and entertain, 21––31 May. 

A selection of earlybird events are out now at hayfestival.org/wales including appearances from novelists Ocean Vuong, Maggie O’Farrell, Douglas Stuart, Ruth Ozeki, Val McDermid, Kiran Desai, Irvine Welsh, Pankaj Mishra, Michael Morpurgo, Bernardine Evaristo, Fflur Dafydd, Samantha Shannon and Saara El-Arifi; poets Kae Tempest and Michael Morpurgo; director Emerald Fennell; publisher Margaret Busby; food writer Prue Leith; adventurer Bear Grylls; broadcasters Amol Rajan, Lyse Doucet and Jeremy Bowen; computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee; economist Kate Raworth; health experts Devi Sridhar, Tim Spector and Alex George; rugby stars James Haskell and Mike Tindall; historians Antony Beevor, Zakia Sewell, David Olusoga and Andrea Wulf; comedians Michael McIntyre and Sara Pascoe; musician Gwenno; and more.

Stay tuned for the full programme of 600+ events out 9 March…

Promotional pack - standard - £0.00
The Reading Agency

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