Month: August 2024

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Pay it Foreword TODAY!

The Foreword Festival team is back with a very special event TODAY! Join us at Bury St Edmunds Library for a book fair that makes a difference.

Authors from all over East Anglia will be getting together to raise money and awareness for charities and other great causes. Every book makes a difference, and every visit raises awareness.

Meet the authors, buy a book, and Pay It Foreword with us!

Pay It Foreword Poster

Introducing our authors and good causes:
Lynda Brignall – Suffolk Hedgehog Hospital
Jackie Carreira – Suffolk Libraries
Rachel Churcher – PTSD UK
AJ Deane – Inside Out Community
Elisabeth Sherriff – Autism Anglia
Urban Pigs Press – FIND
Russell Webb – The Fire Fighters Charity and Cancer Research UK

You’ll find everything from contemporary fiction, poetry and short stories to books for teenagers and picture books for children. We’ll also have refreshments, and the library will be selling books and library-themed goodies.

See you there!

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Pay it Foreword with the Foreword Festival!

The Foreword Festival team is back with a very special event this weekend! Join us on Saturday August 31st at Bury St Edmunds Library for a book fair that makes a difference.

Authors from all over East Anglia will be getting together to raise money and awareness for charities and other great causes. Every book makes a difference, and every visit raises awareness.

Join us on Saturday, buy a book, and Pay It Foreword with us!

Pay It Foreword Poster

Introducing our authors and good causes:
Lynda Brignall – Suffolk Hedgehog Hospital
Jackie Carreira – Suffolk Libraries
Rachel Churcher – PTSD UK
AJ Deane – Inside Out Community
Elisabeth Sherriff – Autism Anglia
Urban Pigs Press – FIND
Russell Webb – The Fire Fighters Charity and Cancer Research UK

You’ll find everything from contemporary fiction, poetry and short stories to books for teenagers and picture books for children. We’ll also have refreshments, and the library will be selling books and library-themed goodies.

See you there!

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Young Adult Book Festival – meet the authors!

It’s a busy few weeks for the Foreword Festival UK! We’re running Pay It Foreword, a book fair to raise money and awareness for good causes on August 31st, and a Young Adult Book Festival in partnership with Stowmarket Library on September 14th.

Today: Meet our YA Book Festival guest authors! As well as being one of the Foreword Festival co-organisers, Rachel Churcher is the author of the YA Dystopian Battle Ground Series, and the LGBTQ+ YA novel Angels.

Booking for the FREE tickets is now live on the Suffolk Libraries website.

If you know a reader aged 11-16 in Suffolk or beyond, please pass on the information. If you know a Scout or Guide leader, a teacher, a school librarian – please let them know about this opportunity for young people. We’d love to welcome them to Stowmarket library on Saturday September 14th!

Young Adult Book Festival – meet the authors
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Young Adult Book Festival – meet the authors!

It’s a busy few weeks for the Foreword Festival UK! We’re running Pay It Foreword, a book fair to raise money and awareness for good causes on August 31st, and a Young Adult Book Festival in partnership with Stowmarket Library on September 14th.

Today: Meet our YA Book Festival guest authors! Annaliese Avery has written several books for the mid-grade age range, but The Immortal Games is her first book for a YA audience. It’s a new twist on Greek gods and legends, and a brilliant read.

Booking for the FREE tickets is now live on the Suffolk Libraries website.

If you know a reader aged 11-16 in Suffolk or beyond, please pass on the information. If you know a Scout or Guide leader, a teacher, a school librarian – please let them know about this opportunity for young people. We’d love to welcome them to Stowmarket library on Saturday September 14th!

Young Adult Book Festival - meet the authors
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Young Adult Book Festival – meet the authors!

It’s a busy few weeks for the Foreword Festival UK! We’re running Pay It Foreword, a book fair to raise money and awareness for good causes on August 31st, and a Young Adult Book Festival in partnership with Stowmarket Library on September 14th.

Today: Meet our YA Book Festival guest authors! Pam Smy is an author, illustrator and lecturer at Cambridge School of Art. Her YA books, Thornhill and The Hideaway are beautiful and haunting illustrated stories – half-way between a novel and a graphic novel.

Booking for the FREE tickets is now live on the Suffolk Libraries website.

If you know a reader aged 11-16 in Suffolk or beyond, please pass on the information. If you know a Scout or Guide leader, a teacher, a school librarian – please let them know about this opportunity for young people. We’d love to welcome them to Stowmarket library on Saturday September 14th!

Young Adult Book Festival – meet the authors
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Young Adult Book Festival

We’re running a YA Book Festival!

Join us on Saturday September 14th at Stowmarket Library, 10.30-4pm, for a day of meeting authors, author panels, interviews, activities and a YA book fair.

The festival is for readers aged 11-16 – tickets are FREE and available now!

Book your FREE ticket!

We’re welcoming nine Young Adult authors to Stowmarket, to bring you the best in YA books, author panels and discussions – plus a chance to meet the authors, ask questions and buy signed books!

Visit our YA Book Festival page for more information.

YA Book Festival

With thanks to our sponsors and supporters: Suffolk Libraries, Paul Wright Estate Agents, Harris & Harris Books, the East of England Co-op, and Taller Books.

Tell your friends! Pass it on! We’d love to see you there …

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Ten-word story challenge

Ten-word story challenge at the Primadonna Festival

Thank you to everyone who came and said hello to the Foreword Festival team at the Primadonna Festival in July! We had a fantastic weekend, meeting authors, readers, and festival-goers. Special thanks to everyone who took part in our ten-word story challenge – you can read the amazing entries here!

Our pick of the best:

Ten-word story challenge – our favourites