Writing on the Fringe
We are really excited to announce the Foreword Festival Poetry Night at the John Peel Centre, Friday 15th August 2025! Check out our line-up, and keep checking our blog and social media for ticket announcements.
Put the date in your diaries – tickets available soon!
Our flash fiction competition, Fast Foreword, is back for the 2025 festival!
We’re looking for stories of 400 to 500 words – prose, not poetry. Quick, punchy narratives that you can sit and read in the time it takes you to enjoy a cuppa. Stories can be on any theme, in any genre. Just remember that this is a fringe literature festival, so weird and wonderful is encouraged, and more likely to be selected!
Taking part in the competition is FREE, and if you live in East Anglia (Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire), you are invited to enter.
The winning stories, chosen by our panel of judges, will be read aloud to the public by professional actors in various locations around Stowmarket during the festival.
Check out photos and winning stories from the 2023 competition, and read a flash fiction sample to spark your imagination. We’re looking forward to reading your stories!