We’re really excited to announce that the Foreword Festival has been nominated for the East Anglian Festival Network FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR AWARD! If you enjoyed our volunteer-run, week-long alternative literature festival, please consider giving us your vote! eafn.co.uk/2026/01/19/a...

It's TODAY! 10am-3pm, 17 authors, loads of Christmas gifts, and FREE drop-in crafts for kids – don't miss the FREE Foreword Festival UK and John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair! johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent... #Booksky #Stowmarket #ChristmasShopping #ForewordFestivalUK

17 authors, loads of Christmas gifts, and FREE drop-in crafts for kids – don't miss the FREE Foreword Festival UK and John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair TOMORROW! johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent... #Booksky #Stowmarket #ChristmasShopping #ForewordFestivalUK

Find local author Muriel Driver at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair TOMORROW! Muriel is bringing her books for children and teenagers – and she's helping to run our fantastic FREE children's craft activities! ✏️ ✂️ 📚 🎄 johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author Elisabeth Sherriff at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair TOMORROW! Elisabeth is bringing her brilliant children's stories and poems – and she's helping to run our fantastic FREE children's craft activities! ✏️ ✂️ 📚 🎄 johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

17 authors, loads of Christmas gifts, and FREE drop-in crafts for kids – don't miss the FREE Foreword Festival UK and John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent... #Booksky #Stowmarket #ChristmasShopping #ForewordFestivalUK

Find local author MT McGuire at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! MT McGuire is bringing her comedic sci-fi and her eyebombing photo books, along with postcards and Christmas cards. Perfect gifts for the whole family! 🎄 🎁 johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author Rebecca Fox at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Rebecca is bringing her YA fantasy books, 'Leaping Beauty' and 'Missing Midnight' – perfect for holiday reads and Christmas gifts. 🎄 🎁 See you there! johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author Julia Blake at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Julia is bringing fantasy, steampunk, sci-fi, short stories and poems, and her gripping romantic thriller series, 'The Blackwood Family Saga'. Christmas gifts for everyone! 🎁 johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author Rachel Churcher at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Rachel is bringing her award-winning YA dystopian series, her LGBTQ+ novel 'Angels', two illustrated books for children, and an anthology of Doctor Who spin-off stories. johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author and illustrator Rosie Andersen at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Rosie is bringing her gorgeous illustrated folk tales, suitable for all ages. Meet Rosie, and check out the books – they make amazing Christmas gifts. 🎄 johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author and Foreword Festival co-founder Jackie Carreira at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Jackie is bringing contemporary and historical novels, as well as plays, short stories, and fabulous bookish postcards. See you there! johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author Chris Foster Tolley, and his road-trip novel set in 1989, at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! If that sounds like your kind of book, head to the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket on Sunday, 10-3pm, for our FREE book fair! johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local Pushcart-nominated SFF poet AJ Deane at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! If that sounds like your kind of read, head to the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket on Sunday, 10-3pm, for our FREE book fair! johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent... #Booksky #ChristmasShopping

Find local author Lynda Brignall at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Lynda is bringing her beautiful and informative children's books about hedgehogs: 'When I Come Out at Night' and 'When I Come Out in the Day', illustrated by Megan Last. johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author Lisa Askham at the John Peel Centre #Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Lisa is bringing her dramatic, Suffolk-set #crime novels, 'Thaw', and 'Yellow Son'. johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent... #Booksky #BookFair #CrimeWriter

Find children's publisher Epic Tales at the John Peel Centre #Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Epic Tales aims to inspire #children to read for pleasure, and to boost their reading confidence. johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent... #Booksky #ChildrensBooks #kidlit

Find local author Helen Fisher at the John Peel Centre #Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Helen is bringing her acclaimed novels 'Space Hopper' and 'Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life', as well as her brand-new novel, 'Once Upon a Winter's Wood'. johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author Pauline Manders at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! Pauline is bringing her fantastic Suffolk-based crime novels: The Utterly Crime Series, and the Hatter Street Private Investigation Agency Series. johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local poet and author Christopher Cotton at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! If these look like your kind of books, head to the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket on Sunday, 10-3pm, for our FREE book fair! johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

Find local author A D Dumas at the John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair THIS SUNDAY! A D Dumas is bringing her brand-new #Romantasy series-starter 'Bound by Secrets', featuring a neurodivergent female main character, family secrets, and a marriage of convenience. johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCent...

15 authors, loads of Christmas gifts, and FREE drop-in crafts for kids – don't miss the FREE Foreword Festival UK and John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair on December 7th! #Booksky #Stowmarket #ChristmasShopping #ForewordFestivalUK

15 authors, loads of Christmas gifts, and FREE drop-in crafts for kids – don't miss the FREE Foreword Festival UK and John Peel Centre Christmas Book Fair on December 7th!

Yesterday we thanked our brilliant sponsors for their generous support. Today, the @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social team is sending a huge THANK YOU to our supporters and partner organisations! We could not have run the festival without you. #ForewordFestival #Booksky #AlternativeLitFest

As we pay our final bills and tie up all the loose ends from this year's festival, the @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social team is sending a huge THANK YOU to our brilliant sponsors for their generous support. We couldn't have done it all without you! #ForewordFestival #Booksky #AlternativeLitFest

We're in the press again! Thank you to the Bury St Edmunds Flyer for this fantastic coverage of last month's Foreword Festival UK! e-magazine.flyeronline.co.uk/p/bury-st-ed... #booksky #alternativelitfest #stowmarket #suffolk

What an opening weekend we had! Here's to the next five days! #ForewordFestival #books #fringe #festival #literature

It's going to be a blast! #books #literature #fringe #festival #fair #suffolk #stowmarket #forewordfestival

Foreword Festival opens TOMORROW! And what's on a week today, Friday, 15th August? Book now for the Performance Poetry Night at the John Peel Centre! An evening of funny, poignant, and hard-hitting words. Plus, a writing workshop for teenagers at Stowmarket Library! forewordfestival.uk

What do you do when your town has no bookshop? Start a book festival, obviously. And it’s about to start, with lots of free events for adults and children! Jackie Carreira enthuses 📖✨

A week today, 14th August! Two more FANTASTIC author events! Don't miss the #ForewordFestival, starting on Saturday! forewordfestival.uk

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Don't miss our co-founder Jackie Carreira in conversation with #BabsMichel on BBC Radio Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Northampton, and Three Counties tonight, sometime from now to 8pm. #ForewordFestival begins Saturday, and Jackie will have the information you need to plan your visit! #booksky

Less than a week to go until the Foreword Festival opens on Saturday, including our art exhibition! #ForewordFestival #art #exhibition forewordfestival.uk

Just one week to go! What's on at the Foreword Festival on Sunday 10th August? Two AMAZING author talks, live at the Regal Cinema in Stowmarket! Romance authors Heidi Swain, Clare Marchant, Jenni Keer and Rachel Hore in conversation. LARRY LAMB talking about his new book! forewordfestival.uk

In three weeks' time, we'll be into the second weekend of Foreword Festival! Here's the weekday events running up to it (see wwe.forewordfestival.uk for the full programme)! #festival #fringe #literature #books

In just three weeks' time, we'll be enjoying the first weekend of the Foreword Festival, in Stowmarket! Here's what's happening *just* that weekend. (see www.forewordfestival.uk for the full programme) Hope to see you there! #ForewordFestival #books #literature #fringe

Just four weeks until the Foreword Festival Poetry Night at the John Peel Centre, Friday 15th August 2025! Tickets available from www.johnpeelcentre.com #ForewordFestivalUK #UK #Poetry #PunkPoetry #PerformancePoetry #SpokenWord #JohnPeelCentre #Suffolk #BookFair #Books #specpo #PoetryCommunity

The @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social‬ isn't just for grown-ups ... Give your creative writing a glow-up at our FREE writing workshop for teens and young adults aged 12-16! Join me for a FREE workshop exploring the power of person and tense in your writing. Booking info in alt text. #booksky #UKYA

The @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social‬ isn't just for grown-ups! Look out for our exciting events for younger readers. Join Suffolk author Lynda Brignall for 'All Things Hedgehog' – Thursday August 14th, 3pm, Stowmarket Library. FREE! Info in alt text. #booksky #hedgehog #forewordfestivaluk

Your child can explore their creativity and imagination with the poetry workshop for children aged 5-10, with the brilliant Elisabeth Sheriff! We'd write about dinosaurs. Autism-friendly. FREE #ForewordFestival #poetry #workshop

We are delighted to announce the ten winning stories of our Fast Foreword flash fiction competition, as well as where they will be performed around Stowmarket on the 9th of August! Well done to all who entered - the quality and quantity were both amazing! #Flash #fiction #FlashFic #Competition

Our co-founder, Rachel, will be in Stowmarket this weekend! #ForewordFestival #ThePowerOfStorytelling

We're delighted to announce the shortlist for the Fast Foreword Flash Fiction Competition! The winning ten will be announced on the 7th of July - stay tuned! #flashfiction #competition #ThePowerOfStorytelling #forewordfestival

Tickets available *now*! We're really looking 'Foreword' to this one! Six poets and poetry stalls for £8? Bargain! #PoetryCommunity #poetry #PoetrySky #poets #poems