Foreword Festival UK

06/06/2026

Join us in TWO WEEKS, on Saturday June 20th at Eye Community Centre, when the Foreword Festival is throwing a party! Bring a picnic and a blanket, join us for tea and cake, and celebrate the King’s Official Birthday with us!

We’ll have live storytelling for kids and grown-ups, free children’s craft activities, a book fair for children and teenage readers, a book-themed costume competition, and more. Plus the WI will be running the cake stall – don't miss their fantastic homemade sweet treats!

No need to book. FREE event. The Community Centre bar will be open, and the WI will be selling tea, coffee, and homemade cakes. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

This year's Foreword Book Festival is generously sponsored by Mid Suffolk District Council, Hartismere School, and local businesses in Eye. Three days packed with book fairs, author talks, performance poetry, workshops, storytelling for kids and grown-ups, and CAKE, with events for Father's Day, Suffolk Day, the solstice, and the King's birthday!

Check out the full programme and book tickets for our author events on our website: www.forewordfestival.uk

05/06/2026

Congratulations to Foreword Book Festival guest author Mitch Johnson, whose new book, 'Strike', is the official Indie Bookshop Book of the Month for June! Meet Mitch and hear about both his football-themed books at our Eat, Sleep, Read, Play Football event on Sunday 21st June.

Book soon – it's a small venue: www.forewordfestival.uk

This year's Foreword Book Festival is generously sponsored by Mid Suffolk District Council, Hartismere School, and local businesses in Eye. Three days packed with book fairs, author talks, performance poetry, workshops, storytelling for kids and grown-ups, and CAKE, with events for Father's Day, Suffolk Day, the solstice, and the King's birthday!

05/06/2026

Only two weeks to go until the opening event of the Foreword Book Festival in Eye! 🎉

The Poetry Open Mic Night on Friday 19th June is your chance to take part in our celebration of local writing talent.

Join us to perform your poems, or come along to listen. Our Poetry Open Mic Night is for everyone! We’re celebrating local poets and giving you the chance to take part and share your writing. Whether it’s your first time at the mic, or you’re a regular performer, we’d love to welcome you to the opening event of our festival.

No need to book. Pay What You Feel on the night. Caféye is not charging us to use the venue, so all we ask is that you support the café by buying drinks and snacks during the event.

This year's Foreword Book Festival is generously sponsored by Mid Suffolk District Council, Hartismere School, and local businesses in Eye. Three days packed with book fairs, author talks, performance poetry, workshops, storytelling for kids and grown-ups, and CAKE, with events for Father's Day, Suffolk Day, the solstice, and the King's birthday!

Check out the full programme and book tickets for our author events on our website: www.forewordfestival.uk

04/06/2026

We are really looking forward to welcoming our spectacular poetry headliners to the Foreword Book Festival. Tickets are on sale NOW for our Performance Poetry Extravaganza on Saturday 20th June at the Bank Arts Centre – and they're a bargain at £15.

⭐️ That's only £3 per poet! ⭐️

Don't miss BAFTA Award winner Henry Normal (co-author of The Mrs Merton Show and The Royle Family), with support from performance poet Tim Barlow, punk poet James Domestic, and post-menopausal, post-punk poet Nancy T. Compered by Eye-based poet and author Andy Deane.

This is going to be an AMAZING evening – we're incredibly lucky to be welcoming these brilliant poets to Mid Suffolk. Tickets are limited (it's a lovely intimate venue). Don't miss out – book now: https://www.thebankeye.org/store/p101/forewordpoetry.html

This year's Foreword Book Festival is generously sponsored by Mid Suffolk District Council and local businesses in Eye. Three days packed with book fairs, author talks, performance poetry, workshops, storytelling for kids and grown-ups, and CAKE, with events for Father's Day, Suffolk Day, the solstice, and the King's birthday!

Buy tickets and check out the full festival programme on our website: www.forewordfestival.uk

03/06/2026

Seriously, support your local bookshop. We're forever grateful that they support us. Thank you Diss Publishing Bookshop and Dial Lane Books

03/06/2026

We have some AMAZING events lined up for the Foreword Book Festival in Eye, Suffolk, 19-21 June!

Tickets are on sale NOW for our Father's Day lunchtime panel. Join four local authors and chefs as they explore food, drink, cooking, and the joy of sharing meals with our friends and families: wegottickets.com/f/18910

We'll be talking about where to eat out in Suffolk with Adam Tully, author of 'Suffolk Story'; how to cook amazing fusion food with award-winning chef Lilian Hiw; farm-to-table cooking, Tanzanian style, with chef Beata Osborne; and the meaningful relationships we develop through the sharing of food, with Bee Farrell.

You'll have the chance to ask questions, and to buy signed books from all the authors after the panel. And if you're hungry afterwards, we'll be recommending places to eat in Eye!

This year's Foreword Book Festival is generously sponsored by Mid Suffolk District Council and local businesses in Eye. Three days packed with book fairs, author talks, performance poetry, workshops, storytelling for kids and grown-ups, and CAKE, with events for Father's Day, Suffolk Day, the solstice, and the King's birthday!

Check out our full programme and buy tickets on the Foreword Festival website: www.forewordfestival.uk

02/06/2026

Less than 3 weeks to go!

Lovely piece on our little festival in this month's Suffolk Norfolk Life magazine.
Not long now!
Suffolk Norfolk Life Foreword Festival UK Dial Lane Books QuirkHouse Theatre Company Diss Publishing Bookshop James Campbell

02/06/2026

We have some AMAZING events lined up for the Foreword Book Festival in Eye, Suffolk, 19-21 June!

Tickets are on sale NOW for the Writing Our Countryside author talk – 21st June, 4pm at the Bank Arts Centre. Tickets are a BARGAIN at £10 from https://www.thebankeye.org/store/p102/forewordcountryside.html

We're bringing Richard Negus (rural life correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and host of the Countryslide podcast) and Patrick Galbraith (columnist for Country Life and The Critic) to Eye for a must-see conversation about the state of our countryside, the modern pressures on rural life, and how to survive and thrive in rural East Anglia.

This year's Foreword Book Festival is generously sponsored by Mid Suffolk District Council and local businesses in Eye. Three days packed with book fairs, author talks, performance poetry, workshops, storytelling for kids and grown-ups, and CAKE, with events for Father's Day, Suffolk Day, the solstice, and the King's birthday!

Browse our programme, book tickets, and plan your festival now on our website: www.forewordfestival.uk