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Love Your Local Authors!

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came to our Love Your Local Authors Book Fair in Bury St Edmunds yesterday! It was a fantastic event, and a brilliant opportunity to bring local authors together with local readers. We’ll be running more book fairs later this year. If you’d like to attend as a reader…
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Love Your Local Authors Book Fair: TODAY!

TODAY: meet 14 local authors and publishers at the Constitutional Club in the centre of Bury St Edmunds, 11-4pm. You’ll find signed books and bookish gifts (perfect for Valentines Day!) at the  Love Your Local Authors Book Fair. Entry is FREE! Come along, meet the authors, grab a drink from our fully licensed bar, and discover your next…
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Love Your Local Authors Book Fair

Don’t miss the Love Your Local Authors Book Fair, this Sunday (11th February, 11-4) at the Constitutional Club in the centre of Bury St Edmunds! Meet 14 local authors and publishers, and find signed books and bookish gifts (perfect for Valentines Day). Entry is FREE! Come along, meet the authors, grab a drink from our fully licensed bar,…
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Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas from the Foreword Festival team! We had a great day on Saturday at Festive Foreword, our Christmas Book Fair. 13 local authors shared their books and literary goodies with the readers of Bury St Edmunds, who supported us in spite of the terrible weather! A huge thank you to everyone who came to…
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Christmas book fair TODAY!

Don’t miss today’s awesome Christmas Book Fair in the heart of Bury St Edmunds! Join 13 local authors for Festive Foreword at the Constitutional Club – next door to the Guildhall and a couple of minutes walk from Market Square. FREE entry, open 11-4. Our special guest authors will be signing books and selling gifts,…
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Christmas book fair TOMORROW!

The team behind this year’s Foreword Festival is back to bring you an awesome Christmas Book Fair in the heart of Bury St Edmunds! Join 13 local authors for Festive Foreword TOMORROW at the Constitutional Club in Bury St Edmunds – next door to the Guildhall and a couple of minutes walk from Market Square.…
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Christmas book fair!

This Saturday, join the Foreword Festival team for an awesome Christmas Book Fair in the heart of Bury St Edmunds! Festive Foreword is taking place on December 9th at the Constitutional Club in Bury St Edmunds, next door to the Guildhall and a couple of minutes walk from Market Square. 13 local authors will be…
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Join us at the book fair!

A week from today, the Foreword Festival team will be back to bring you an awesome Christmas Book Fair in the heart of Bury St Edmunds! Festive Foreword is taking place on December 9th at the Constitutional Club in Bury St Edmunds, a couple of minutes walk from Market Square. 13 local authors will be…
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Festive Foreword

The Foreword Festival 2023 is over, but the organisers haven’t put their feet up yet! Join us for Festive Foreword, our 2023 Christmas Book Fair on Saturday 9th December at the Constitutional Club in Bury St Edmunds (IP33 1PR), and for Love Your Local Authors, our 2024 Valentines event, on Sunday February 11th. At Festive Foreword, we’ll be…
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THANK YOU!

We want say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who supported the Foreword Festival, and made the event possible. Click the image for the larger version!