The Raising Voices Project

Launching in Summer 2025, we are embarking on a citywide multimedia project to capture people’s experiences in relation and response to specific places – houses, streets, buildings, parks, trees, lakes, bars - across Milton Keynes.

We’ll be running writing workshops in schools and community settings facilitated by practising writers, and we'll also be hosting online masterclasses in using poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction to write about place and location. And there’ll be downloadable resources to inspire and guide you before you write – or before you send us your writing.

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We’ll be curating a selection of the submitted pieces into a web-based StoryMap, where you’ll be able to click on linked locations to read – and hear – poems and stories that they've inspired, in many cases illustrated with images too.

And we’ll be creating new SoundWalks – guided routes through particular areas or neighbourhoods that link a series of texts and recordings in audio tours of local creativity.

Together, Raising Voices will tell the stories of people and place for everyone to hear.