Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK
9th-16th August 2025

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Young Adult Book Festival – Activities!

Don’t forget to book tickets for our Young Adult Book Festival in Stowmarket on September 14th! Tickets are FREE, and the event is for readers aged 11-16. We’ll have author panels, interviews, writing activities, and opportunities to meet the authors. It’s going to be a fantastic day! Booking for the FREE tickets is now live…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Ten-word story challenge

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:

We’re heading to Primadonna!

Foreword Festival co-organiser Jackie Carreira will be at the Primadonna Festival this weekend, 26-28 July. Find the official Foreword Festival table in the Community Tent, and pick up information about our book fairs and events for the rest of 2024. Sign up for our mailing list, take part in our flash fiction activity, and pick…
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We’re in the Bury St Edmunds Flyer!

Check out this fantastic coverage of our Love Your Local Authors Book Fair in the Bury St Edmunds Flyer. We’ll be running more book fairs later in 2024. If you’d like to attend as a reader or as an author, sign up for our mailing list, and we’ll make sure you hear about all our future…
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