We’re back for 2025! And this year’s festival is going to be bigger and better than ever.
Join us in Stowmarket, Suffolk, 9th-16th August, for a week-long celebration of creativity, readers, authors, performers, and writing that’s outside the mainstream.
Check out our provisional programme!
We’re planning:
TWO free book fairs
A performance poetry evening with open mic
Events and workshops for children and teenagers
Publishing workshops
Flash Fiction competition – enter your short story by May 31st!
Guerrilla storytelling
… and more to be announced!
We’re working with venues and organisations across the centre of Stowmarket to bring books, authors and literary performances into the community. We’ll be showcasing authors who might not be invited to take part in mainstream literary festivals, and bringing them together with readers, reluctant readers, lapsed readers, and anyone who might feel that a mainstream literary festival isn’t for them.
We’ll have something for everyone:
Local authors
Fringe literature
Poetry and performance poetry
Genre fiction (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Romance, etc.)
Books for children
Books for teenagers
Non-fiction
Publishing workshops for writers
… and more!
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See you there!
