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

Category: Foreword Festival

Writing Workshops

Tickets for our writing workshops are on sale now! Saturday’s one-hour workshops are designed to help you find your writing voice. Here’s the first, from award-winning author Jackie Carreira, exploring the creation of character and voice. Using exercises, insight and a variety of techniques, this workshop is designed to step away from the cliché and help…
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Fast Foreword: Deadline Tomorrow!

The deadline to send in your entries for the Fast Foreword Flash Fiction event is midnight TOMORROW (31st August)! We’d love to see your creativity, and to show off your work as part of our very first Foreword Festival. Submit your story! If you’re looking for inspiration, check out our sample story.

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!

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!

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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