This year the organisers really have pulled all the stops out.
Celebrations begin on the evening of Thursday 29th March, with a preview of artwork from local poetry magazine Quirk.
Over the whole week, there's a colouring competition at Otherworldz and a Bookshop Treasure Hunt.
On Friday evening, there's a champagne reception at Booths Bookshop with readings by local authors Tom Bullough and Oliver Balch. Later in the evening, Tom and Oliver go on to the Globe, where Tom will be interviewed by Oliver for the Globe's regular Desert Island Picks evening.
Meanwhile, further along Broad Street, the Old Electric Shop will be open till late, with literary themed cocktails and live music.
On Saturday 31st, the Wayzgoose will be open at 20 Castle Street (recently The End vintage shop) showcasing the printers' art. They will also be holding a candle lit supper on Saturday evening.
Also on Saturday, a panel of Hay Booksellers will be at the Globe to talk about their bookselling careers. On the panel will be Derek Addyman of Addyman's Books, Judith Gardner of The Children's Bookshop and Pat Thornton from Richard Booths. Between them, they have 120 years' experience! The panel will be chaired by Joshua Green of Green Ink Booksellers.
Hay's Youth Theatre will be parading through town, and in the afternoon will be putting on a free performance of a Variety Show called "Happy Gleeaster" - directed by Janine Sharp from Playaway and Johnny Cartwright (Mr Bamboozle)!
There's also the Inaugural Richard Booth Lecture, given by Jeff Towns 'the Dylan Thomas guy', from his Book Bus in the Market Square. He's been a bookseller in Swansea for 40 years.
And from booksellers to publishers - Richard Davies of Parthian Books will be talking to Oliver Balch about the challenges of publishing in Wales in the 21st century.
And cocktails at the Old Electric Shop in the evening, and the official Independence Party at the Parish Hall, and Saturday Shenanigans at the Globe with Jally Kebbo Susso and Band Manding Sabu. Jally is a traditional Gambian griot, playing the kora in an entirely new way.
After all that partying, there's more on Sunday 1st April, which is Independence Day!
There's Lego Club and Easter Egg Hunt at the Globe, followed by Booksellers Brunch. Then at the Globe Helen Jukes previews her book A Honey Bee's Heart Has Five Openings, which is due to be published in July.
In the Parish Hall, Hay2Timbuktu will be celebrating 10 years of Hay being twinned with Timbuktu.
Adele Nozedar will be holding a Botanical Gin workshop, showing how to make flavoured gin.
Zoe Sadler will be reading her children's book The Lighthouse Keeper and encouraging children to draw their own monster.
Dr Andrew Webb from Bangor University will be talking to Jeff Towns about their new book about the Welshness of Edward Thomas, country life writer and poet who died 100 years ago at Arras.
And there's another Welsh publisher, Penny Thomas of Firefly Press, which publishes books for the 5 - 19 age group, who will be talking about how children's books are published.
On Monday, Zoe Sadler will be in the Parish Hall talking about Mermaids and Butterflies and getting children involved in activities from her book Mysteries of the Deep.
Andy and Karen Johnson of Logaston Press will be talking about Myths, and there's a Croquet Competition in the Globe Garden, refereed by the Red Queen!
This is followed by the Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the Parish Hall (Alice will be there, too).
And Jeff Towns will be talking about Dylan Thomas.
Tuesday starts with Drama and Magic Workshops in the Parish Hall, run by Janine Sharp and Johnny Cartwright (Mr Bamboozle).
At the Globe, Elaine Canning will be talking about the International Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers, and what it's like behind the scenes of a major literary award. The books on the shortlist of the prize will be available for sale.
There's also a trip to Hereford Cathedral, including entry to the Mappa Mundi and Chained Library exhibitions, and a talk by Peter Challenger on the History of the Hereford Light Infantry, with a cream tea and a tour of the Bishop's Garden (not normally open to the public). There'll also be a chance to see the Weeping Window - the poppy installation which has just been put up at the cathedral.
Meanwhile in Hay, there's a talk on the Gentle Art of Penguin Book Collecting, by Megan Prince and David Jackson. Megan Prince owns the Ironbridge Bookshop, and specialises in Penguins as well as having an extensive collection, and David Jackson is a private collector of Penguins.
There are more Drama and Magic Workshops in the afternoon, and poetry and story telling at the Globe by Anne Lister. Later at the Globe there's music from visiting Bookstagrammers, followed by the Globe Open Mic Night.
On Wednesday, at the Globe, John Watson, from Edinburgh gives a demonstration of printing using woodcut blocks. Last year he did a similar talk on lino-cutting. In the afternoon he will be running a lino cutting workshop at the Parish Hall for children aged 12 to 15.
There's a full day of events put on by Bangor University on the History of the Book. Highlights include a talk on a Medieval Book of Hours, by Sue Niebrzydowski, a talk on printing in early modern England by Michael Durrant, and in the afternoon a talk on 19th century postcards from North Wales by Carol Tully, Eben Muse on "Fantasies of the Bookstore" and The Book in Cyber Space by Lyle Skains.
Then there's poetry and storytelling at the Globe by Anne Lister and author Bruce Johns at Eighteen Rabbit.
In the evening, Chris Hunter is at the Globe - bomb disposal expert, writer and counter-terrorism consultant.
Thursday is Market Day, and there will also be poetry workshops at the Parish Hall.
Andrew Taylor and Phil Rickman will be talking about writing and the crime novel, and Billie Charity will be holding a portrait photography workshop.
At the Globe serial killer profiler Paul Harrison will be in conversation with local PCSO Helen Scott, and later there will be more crime writers - Guy Fraser-Sampson and Hugh Fraser, in a discussion chaired by Phil Rickman. Hugh Fraser is also an actor, who played Captain Hastings in Poirot.
Also at the Globe Andrew Wilson will be talking about his work, including a book about Agatha Christie.
And on Forest Road, Chris Arden the Natural History Specialist is holding a late night bookshop opening.
The evening finishes off with a candle lit quiz on detective fiction, hosted by Maidens of Murder.
Friday is Flea Market Day in the Buttermarket.
There'll be another trip to Hereford Cathedral and the Bishop's Garden, and a chance to build a Book Igloo in the Parish Hall, with books provided by Hay Castle.
Barbara Erskine will be speaking about her latest work at the Globe, and in the evening it's literary cocktails at the Old Electric Shop and Literary Quiz at the Globe.
Saturday morning starts at the Globe with a talk about women in publishing, and at the Parish Hall local councillors will be holding a hanging basket workshop as part of Hay in Bloom. In the afternoon there's a celebration of our local Olympian, Josie Pearson, followed by a talk about Miles Without Stiles and a chance to meet the Town Councillors. The Hay Citizen of the Year Award will also be given.
There's an hour of poetry at the Globe, and a talk about Bookstagramming for Boys, followed in the evening by the First Official Bookstagrammy Awards. This year's themes are Books and Hot Drinks, Books and Scenery, and a Book Laid Flat, or Shelfie.
Desert Island Picks at the Globe will be with Shaun Bythell, owner of The Bookshop, Wigtown, and author of Diary of a Bookseller.
Sunday starts with a Faber bookseller's brunch, and a children's tea party at the Parish Hall hosted by Adele Nozedar and Lizzie Harper.
There's more Croquet at the Globe.
There will be other events too - I'm working from the draft programme!
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