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

Category: Announcements

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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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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Author Panel: SF, Fantasy and Horror

We are delighted to announce the Foreword Festival’s first official author panel! We’re celebrating Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror with fantasy author Bex Hogan, horror author Josh Winning, and sci-fi authors Matt Adcock and Rachel Churcher. The panel will be sharing their experiences of writing genre fiction, creating imaginary places, and shaping other-worldly stories at Shuffle…
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