WIN A GOLDEN TICKET TO HAY FESTIVAL HAY-ON-WYE 2025 

Ready for a world of different experiences? Hay Festival is back! 

Buy a book from Bookshop.org by midnight 13th April for a chance to win a Golden Ticket to Hay.

The prize

We've teamed up with Hay for an exclusive chance to win a Golden Ticket to Hay Festival 2025, comprising a pair of tickets to five events of your choosing.

About Hay Festival
 22 May-1 June 2025 the beautiful book town welcomes writers, readers, thinkers and dreamers of all ages for 11 days of events and activities. Launching the best new fiction and non-fiction, while offering insights and debate around significant global issues, the programme sees writers, policy makers, pioneers and innovators take part from around the world, offering big thinking and bold ideas.
 

How to enter
Simply order ANY book from Bookshop.org by midnight April 13th.

The winner will be contacted by email following the competition's close. 

Questions? Contact [email protected]

TERMS & CONDITIONS

1. Entries must be received by 23.59 on the closing date of 13/04/2025. Only one entry per person or email address is allowed

2. Entrants must be aged 18 or over and be residents of the UK. This prize draw is not open to employees or contractors of the Promoter or their immediate families, nor to any other person connected with the prize draw

3. There will be one prize winner, who will win a pair of tickets to five Hay Festival 2025 events of their choosing from the whole programme (subject to availability). Please note accommodation and transport is not included in any part of the prize and winners will need to make their own way to and from the Festival.

4. The Prize is subject to availability. The Promoter reserves the right to amend the specification of the Prize or offer an alternative Prize of equal or greater value. No cash alternative will be offered. The Prize is non-transferable

5. A random draw supervised by the Promoter will take place within 2 working days of 13/04/2025 to select the winner(s). The Prize winner(s) will be notified by telephone or email, and will need to respond by midnight within one week of the date of contact. If a selected winner does not meet all of the necessary conditions or refuses the Prize, another entrant will be selected from the remaining eligible entries

6. The decision of the Promoter is final

7. By entering the prize draw, entrants consent to the use of their names, city or county of residence, photograph and/or image for publicity purposes in all media carried out by the Promoter (and in the case of there being more than one, each of them) without payment or compensation

8. The Promoter may terminate, amend or withdraw this prize draw and/or these terms and conditions at any time

9. All entries become the property of Hay Festival Foundation Ltd, who assumes no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected entries nor for any entries that fail to be submitted for any technical reason whatsoever. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for contacting entrants or forwarding prizes to entrants who provide unclear or incomplete information nor for entries lost, misdirected, delayed or destroyed. Proof of entering is not proof of receipt of entry

10. Entries must be submitted by the named entrant and will be invalid if found to come from a third party. Multiple entries from a single source will be disqualified

11. For the name/county of the prize winner, please send a stamped addressed envelope marked “Bookshop.org UK Win A Golden Ticket” to The Drill Hall, 25 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AD after xxxxx. No entries should be sent to this address.

12. Entry to the prize draw is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions, which are governed by English Law. By clicking on the 'Enter to Win' button above you are deemed to have read and accepted these terms.

13. The contact details you provide to enter the prize draw will be used by the Promoter to contact entrants if necessary, and will not be shared with other companies unless you have opted to do so via a tick box provided above (should there be one).