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

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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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It’s happening!

The Foreword Festival is here! Yesterday’s book fair, live readings, children’s stories and workshops were fantastic. Today, meet the authors at the book fair, join us for our SF, Fantasy and Horror author panel at 11 in the Guildhall garden, and head for our publishing workshops, run by our sponsor, Softwood Self-Publishing. See you there!

Suffolk Norfolk Life

We’re thrilled to find this fantastic coverage of the festival in the October issue of Suffolk Norfolk Life Magazine! Follow the link to read the full article online.

On the radio again

Jackie Carreira and Rachel Churcher, co-organisers of the Foreword Festival, are on the radio again today with the latest updates for the event at the weekend! Check out the Louise Hulland Afternoon Show on BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, and BBC Sounds. On Listen Again, the interview begins 1 hour and…
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On the radio …

Exciting news! Jackie Carreira, co-organiser of the Foreword Festival, will be on the radio today – not once, but TWICE! Check out Suffolk Sound at 10.30am, and BBC Upload at 6pm, when Jackie will have all the latest on our Literary Fringe Festival adventure!

Fast Foreword Flash Fiction Shortlist

We’re announcing the shortlist today! Congratulations to everyone who entered. Head over to the Fast Foreword page to find out which stories – and authors – made it to the shortlist! The judges will choose ten stories for our live reading event next week and make the final announcement next Friday, 15th September. Thank you…
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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.

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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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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