Opportunities for Writers
Look Again: The surprises of inner and outer landscapes (Masterclass)
Wednesday 2 July 2025, Zoom, 7.00pm - 8.30pm; £15/£12
Whatever their form, all stories take place somewhere. Join Belfast-born fiction writer Paul McVeigh and Coventry-born poet Cathy Galvin for this short story masterclass, as they invite you to disrupt your usual writing practice and find a space to look again, and more deeply, at the all-too-familiar landscape of home.
You and Me: local writers mark International Day of Friendship
Wednesday 30 July 2025, Zoom, 7.00pm - 8.00pm; £3/£2 (selected writers enter free)
Friendship is one of the foundations of human experience. Young or old, male or female, single or married, straight or otherwise, our friends are a source of joy, comfort, support - and sometimes otherwise! Submit your poem, flash fiction or creative non-fiction for our online event, You and Me. Entries close on 30 June 2025.
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry (Masterclass)
Tuesday 5 August 2025, Zoom, 7.00pm - 8.30pm; £15/£12
In partnership with Poets for the Planet, a masterclass in writing about place and location with the acclaimed ecopoets Clare Shaw, Rishi Dastidar, Caleb Parkin and Jessica Mookherjee. Event profits will be donated to Give Peat a Chance, and poems can be submitted later to Poets for the Planet and to our Raising Voices project.
The Raising Voices Project
Ongoing
Our Raising Voices Project is collecting and curating poems, short stories and creative non-fiction that relates to or has been inspired by specific locations in the Milton Keynes city area, building an online interactive audiovisual StoryMap to captures the raised voices of our community.
MK Indie Book Fair 2025
Date and location tbc
Following the success of the first MK Indie Book Fair in December 2024, we're intending to run the event again in 2025 (date and venue tbc). If you would like to be informed when further details are available and registration of interest is open, please complete the short online form