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City of Stories
Short Story Workshop
with Will Burns
Wednesday 13 August 2025, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
8 Sunset Walk, centre:mk,
Milton Keynes MK9 3ES
Free (places limited: pre-booking required)
Will Burns is the new Defoe -- Adelle Stripe
As part of our new project, Raising Voices, we’re running three workshops in centre:mk this summer for anyone aged 16+ to write about the city.
Join local author Will Burns for a place-based creative writing workshop where you’ll look at the technique and function of place in crafting fiction. Using our intimate relationship with the physical environment surrounding us, and the interaction of geography, memory and emotion, this workshop will provide a framework and a space for writing new work with Milton Keynes and its environs at its heart.
This two hour workshop will include writing exercises and prompts, and you will have opportunities after the event to submit writing that it has inspired to MK Lit Fest's Raising Voices Project, which is developing an online interactive audio-visual map of people's responses to and relationships with particular locations across our home city. Follow the link below to read more, download a free booklet, find out about our other in-person and online workshops, and discover how to submit your own writing.
About Will Burns
Will Burns was born in London and lives in Buckinghamshire. Among much else he likes gardening, sports and birds and is Poet-In-Residence at Caught By The River. He was named as one of the 4 Faber & Faber New Poets for 2014 with his debut pamphlet, praised in The Guardian for its ‘quiet intelligence and subtle ways of seeing’. Will’s first full collection, Country Music, was published with Offord Road Books in 2020, and his debut novel was The Paper Lantern, published in July 2021 with Weidenfeld & Nicholson, for which he was named as one of The Observer’s Top 10 Debut Novelists of 2021. His second collection of poems, Natural Burial Ground, was longlisted for the Laurel Prize in 2024.
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