WITH three months to go before its doors open, Frome’s first Small Publishers’ Fair is already set to be a success.
All of the stand space at the Fair, being held at the town’s Silk Mill Studios on Saturday 2nd July, is now sold.
The Fair is being organised by Frome Writers’ Collective as part of the annual Frome Festival and will complement the already strong writer-targeted content in the Festival programme. It will give local writers the chance to meet and talk to those who may help them get their work published, and at the same time book lovers will be able to browse through the wide range of often specialist titles the publishers exhibiting will have on show.
FWC chair Sue Watts said, “We are very excited about this event. It’s a first for Frome and to be sold out so far ahead is very encouraging, especially as we’d love it to become a regular feature of the Frome Festival programme.
“And we’re delighted that Barry Cunningham, FWC Patron and CEO at Chicken House, the much acclaimed Frome-based children’s book publisher, has agreed to open the Fair at 10.00am.”
“Frome Writers Collective was formed in 2014 with the aim of supporting and encouraging writers local to Frome on the often difficult journey, first of all to complete their work and then to achieve the goal of publication. The Small Publishers’ Fair will help them do just that.”
The literary elements of the Frome Festival programme, which include the Writers in Residence competition also organised by Frome Writers’ Collective, an immensely popular and internationally supported short story competition and presentations from high profile writers and agents, are already widely recognised.
For information about the FWC visit fromewriters collective.co.uk or the Frome Writers Collective Facebook page. More information about the Fair is on the Frome Small Publishers Fair website, fromesmallpublishersfair.co.uk
