Raising Voices is a citywide multimedia project that is capturing people’s experiences or flights of imagination in relation and response to specific places – houses, streets, buildings, parks, trees, lakes, bars - across Milton Keynes, in poems, short stories or in creative non-fiction.

We’re curating a selection of yoursubmitted pieces into a web-based StoryMap, where you can click on marked locations to read poems and stories that they've inspired, in many cases illustrated with images too. And you can hear the pieces too, as most of the poems and stories are accompanied by audio-recordings.

 

Submissions remain open, so that we can build a richer verbal image of life in our city. As well as workshops  (and we have more to come), there are downloadable resources to inspire and guide you before you write – or before you send us your writing.

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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.

 

>> Visit the Raising Voices StoryMap