Hay Festival Writers at Work 2025: Applications Open

Deadline for submissions: 2.00 pm, Friday 28 February 2025.

This opportunity will take place during Hay Festival from Friday 23 May to Sunday 1 June 2025. The fully programmed 10 days will allow selected writers to attend masterclasses, workshops, and to network with Welsh, UK based and international writers, publishers, press and agents.

Applications from writers of fiction (all genres), non-fiction, and poetry in English and Welsh are welcomed. This programme is not aimed at scriptwriters (stage nor screen). Eligible applicants are Welsh writers (born, schooled, or currently living in Wales) who show a clear commitment to professional development citing evidence of publication, no matter how small, in print or online.

Participants may be writers in the early phases of their writing career, more experienced writers who need – or would welcome – support to reach the next level of their career, or writers who feel they have achieved all they can in one genre or language and desire a step change.

There is no age limit, beyond the minimum age of 18, and there are 10 places available.

Writers at Work is free to attend. A Writers at Work Bursary will cover accommodation, travel from within Wales or the UK and subsistence on site. The Festival site is fully accessible for wheelchair users and performance venues are fitted with induction loops. Guide dogs are permitted. All accommodation will be booked by Hay Festival, but participants must make their own travel arrangements; costs for travel will be reimbursed.

To find out more about the application and selection process, and for a more detailed overview of the programme, head to Hay Festival’s website.