🚨First authors announced TOMORROW🚨. Turn on our post notifications to be the first to hear - you do not want to miss this stellar line up! 🤩. Sneak peek of icons from our new artwork courtesy of Rooksmoor Press. 🎨🥳Artwork reveal tonight! 🥳🎨. #sbf25

Have you entered the Laurie Lee Prize yet? Chair of judges @ffordekatie talks through the origins of the prize and explores this year’s theme. Head to the link in our bio for full details on how to apply. 📝 #SBF25 #laurieleeprize

Are you excited for Stroud Book Festival 2025? We are! Celebrating 10 years of books, ideas and community this November. 📖. A big thank you to creative students at Bath Spa University for putting together this teaser video 👏🏼. #SBF25

Remember when @MichaelRosenYes came to Stroud Book Festival? You can now watch his event plus more new videos from 2024 on our SBF player! 📖. Follow the link to start watching!

Stroud Book Festival is delighted to announce that The Laurie Lee Prize for Writing 2025 is now open for entries! . Head to our website for more information on guidelines and how to enter! 📝

Happy Friday! We’ve added three new videos to our SBF Player. From @guyshrubsole to @rhipratchett and Gabrielle Kent to Rachel Joyce and Emily Howes. £10 buys you access to all content from previous festivals. The proceeds will go towards our 2025 festival.📚.

Happy #WorldBookDay! 📚 Remeber you can now stream videos of previous Stroud Book Festival events on our website:

Something for the weekend? We’ve added three new videos to our SBF Player. From @williamnhutton to @SimonWIParker to poet Anthony Joseph. £10 buys you access to all content from previous festivals. The proceeds will go towards our 2025 festival.

RT @CaroSanderson: Massive congratulations to #Stroud's own @tompercival for this wonderful accolade.

Remember when @CliveMyrieBBC made it to Stroud Book Festival? You can now watch his event plus many more on our SBF player! 📖. Follow the link to start watching!

Some dates for your autumn diary! Join us for our 10th festival: 5-9th November 2025. You don’t want to miss it…

Missing Stroud Book Festival? Good news! We’ve relaunched our Stroud Book Festival player with new events from 2024. £10 buys you access to all content from previous festivals. The proceeds will go towards our 2025 festival. More events will be added in the coming weeks!.

We are now on Bluesky! Give us a follow and stay up to date with Stroud Book Festival 2025📖

Remember to hold the dates for next year’s book festival - 5 - 9 November - our lovely festival team have just about recovered from this year, and are already plotting some more brilliant guests for next time. Sign up to our newsletter (link in bio) to be kept in the loop!.

Bringing back happy memories of last month’s festival, @chloedaltonuk @natashacarthew!.

🎄 ✨ The Stroud Book Festival Christmas tree is up, with beautiful mini book covers from some #StroudBookFestival24 highlights - check out all the trees at St Laurence Church, Stroud, on til this Sunday (8th). Thanks @StLaurenceFutur for hosting this lovely event each year!

❤️these bears from ⁦@MannJewellers⁩ - the #StroudBookFestival24 - inspired Stroud Bear Hunt is still on til Sunday - can you spot all the bears to be in a with a chance of winning a prize? . Map here! ⁦@in_stroud_glos⁩

@StLaurenceFutur @booksaremybag @YLBookshop Plus our friends at @gloslibs & @ace_national - the library events for the family, covers exhibition & support we could offer emerging writers were a real highlight this year! (Watch til the end 😆😍)

@StLaurenceFutur @booksaremybag And a huge thank you to Hereward from @YLBookshop who lights up the schools days - we couldn’t do it without you, Hereward!.

@StLaurenceFutur @booksaremybag (We’re not sure if Charles from #StroudBookshop has quite recovered yet!). #Stroudbookfestival24