After 20 years of corporate life, international travel, and living overseas, Emma Cunis had been diagnosed with ME Chronic Fatigue.  She returned to Dartmoor where she had grown up as a child …

Let's transform place into story. In this 90-minute masterclass, we’ll review and explore creative non-fiction techniques, from personal memory to Gonzo, to hidden histories. Through readings, discuss...

A Different LENS is an interactive map on your computer and simultaneously a walk on your smartphone, produced by Elspeth Penfold through the artist group Thread and Word. The map uses locative media....

‘Along The Lines’ is an immersive mobile soundwalk exploring Brighton’s laundry heritage. Designed and recorded by sound artist and researcher Anna Celeste Edmonds, in collaboration with charity Quiet...

A City Full of Stories is a digital SoundWalk created by those experiencing homelessness in London and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. It lasts 25 minutes, blending words and music to imagine ...

This piece is one of 4 participatory works created with and produced by Audio Artist Dawn Matheson as part of her How To Draw A Tree (“to draw” here meaning “to attract”) multimedia soundwalk project.

Listening to the Port uses composed soundscapes, ambient music, and descriptive narration, to explore the history and speculative future of Port Adelaide, focusing on the ecological impact of colonial...

A sound walk on the Western Breakwater, Granton Harbour, Edinburgh, Scotland

Listen to artists, specialists and walkers talking about how walking inspires their work and shapes our world.

Andrew Stuck is in Sweden at Björkö-Konstnod (BKN) in the northern Stockholm archipelago to join the Walking as Practice artist residency of which he is going to be part. Among the artists there wa…

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SWS Awards 2024 The original award discovering the best sound walks from all over the world. Up to €1000 for first prize! Details · 2023 Winners Submit your work today! Marŝarto Awards 2025 The first,...

SWS Awards 2024 The original award discovering the best sound walks from all over the world. Up to €1000 for first prize! Details · 2023 Winners Submit your work today! Marŝarto Awards 2025 The first,...

Archive : Walking Events

We are delighted to announce the authors selected for our forthcoming illustrated chapbook anthology 39 Steps, celebrating the famous man-on-the-run thriller by John Buchan – The Thirty Nine Steps. The stories were submitted to our recent 39 Steps micro-flash fiction writing competition, in which authors were challenged to write a story in 39 words or

The latest instalment of Walking America with host Ann de Forest brings two novelists, Sharon White and Janice Deal walking and writing...

For many the Covid pandemic has been a difficult time to live through, not least for the residents of Melbourne in Australia, who may well have had to endure the longest lockdown of any city. For D…

Wayfarer is part memoir, part travel narrative, part nature book, which begins while Phoebe Smith was sent on assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage in the world – the Camino de Santiago, in no...

Wayfarer is part memoir, part travel narrative, part nature book, which begins while Phoebe Smith was sent on assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage in the world – the Camino de Santiago, in no...

The School of Arts, Media and Communications at the University of Leicester brings together a number of departments and specialist centres into a community of academic and professional staff, who are

A modern cafe in South Korea, with social spaces and a green roof, was inspired by a walk in the forest. Source: A New Cafe In South Korea That’s Inspired By A Walk In Nature

Alan Cleaver, a former journalist and more recently a walking guide book author has a long-held fascination in handwritten letters and how they have been delivered. The Postal Paths, his new book comi...

AntVenture is an interactive storytelling audio walking app that gives you the inside scoop about what ants think of humans.

Andrew Stuck is walking through the streets and around the battlements of the fortified city of Girona in Catalonia, Spain. He is in the company of Molly Wagner an American who has lived in Austral…