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Workshop tickets on sale NOW!

Workshop ticket sales for the Foreword Festival are now LIVE! Places are limited, so book your tickets now. Writing workshops on Saturday 7th October, Publishing Workshops on Sunday 8th, at the gorgeous Guildhall in Bury St Edmunds. Tell your friends! Tell your writing groups! And check out the workshop details.

How to create a Fringe Festival #5

We’re all in this together, and we really want everyone to succeed!

Fast Foreword!

The Foreword Festival is running a Flash Fiction event – Fast Foreword – and if you live in East Anglia (or you are one of our Book Fair authors) you are invited to help us create it! We’re looking for stories of up to 500 words. Quick, punchy narratives that you can sit and read…
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How to create a Fringe Festival #3

Every project needs a partner in crime. Preferably one with chocolate!

How to create a Fringe Festival #2

You always think you’ll remember – but trust us, you won’t …

How to create a Fringe Festival #1

If the book you want to read doesn’t exist, write it. If the event you want to attend doesn’t exist, make it happen!

Meet our authors!

The first ever literary fringe festival in the UK will be hosting a fringe book fair on Saturday October 7th and Sunday October 8th 2023 at the Guildhall in Bury St Edmunds. Entry to the book fair is free, and we’ll have graphic novels, SF and fantasy, comedy, poetry, children’s books, non-fiction and more. Plus…
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Welcome!

Welcome to the Foreword Festival – the first literary fringe festival in the UK! It started with a question: ‘Why is there no such thing as a Fringe Literature Festival? We have them for film and theatre and music but not books. Why not?’ The question was asked by two Suffolk-based authors, Jackie Carreira and…
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Launch week!

This is exciting – not one, but two Bury St Edmunds book festivals are launching this week! The Foreword Festival will be launching on Thursday, so watch this space for more information … Our sister festival, the Bury Literature Festival, has opened ticket sales today. Head to their website to check out their events and…
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