Annemarie Lopez visits her local supermarket and reflects on unheroic everyday walking. Early in Robert Altman’s film The Long Goodbye, Elliott Gould’s detective Marlowe goes to the supermarket at three in the morning to buy food for his cat. Under humming fluorescent light, he saunters, squinting at shelves stacked with tins, trying to find his

In Los Pasos de Mama Killa Amanda Gutiérrez explores the collective meaning of agency at night, presenting the nighttime as a communal and relational space grounded in mutual care. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Amanda discusses her work. Los Pasos de Mama Killa (The Steps of Mama Killa) was

From 28 July to 5 August 2025, Project AfDevLives organized Sound–Place–Storytelling, a training workshop on sound-based approaches to qualitative research.

We are delighted to announce the Long listed entries in our annual Write About Walking writing competition that this year, had a theme of “Walking In The Dark” in support of the global action “Women walking, the City, at Night“. This is the fifth year in which we have run a Write About Walking poetry

It's been an eventful year, but we have some good news: It's the SWS25 shortlist.

Arturo Soto's photobook offers a quietly subversive view of Oxford, one that sidesteps the spires, the postcard images and instead roams the under-acknowledged corners of British academia.

For the upcoming WALCafé dedicated to Walking Art & Mental Health on October 28th, following a presentation of my current stage of research at WAC25 International Encounters, I would like to share some words and images to contextualize my artistic practice. My research centres on linking the imaginary of walking with certain procedures in psychiatric practice—usually associated with

Eleonore Ozanne's proposition is simple...

Dario J Laganà is an Italian professional photographer and walking artist based in Berlin. For next year, Dario has planned a sustained act of walking: a 3000 km nomadic journey around Iceland, entirely on foot, with a custom-built, solar-powered trolley.

Between 2006 and 2013 the writer Taran Khan made multiple trips to Kabul, Afghanistan, a city she felt was misunderstood by many outsiders. She decided to get to know it the best way she knew how, by heading out into its streets on foot, with all the risks and rewards that entailed. Annemarie Lopez interviewed

Radhika Subramaniam recently published Footprint: Four Itineraries, probing the long history of the footprint’s manifestation in the human imagination.

On August 26, Babak Fakhamzadeh of walk · listen · create and Mary Marinopoulou of Action Synergy, as part of the 4-year project Walking Arts and Local Communities, hosted the online event Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity and Resistance, bringing together four artists and activists; Nohad ElHajj, Marta Moreno Muñoz, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, and Tom Jeffreys. What followed was a profound dialogue on walking as a political and embodied act in the face of violence, injustice, and systemic disconnection.

Kinetika and the Lebanon Mountain Trail Association (LMTA) have launched Mountains of Hope, a community-led project that celebrates the people, places, and stories of the 450km Lebanon Mountain Trail and its 150km network of side trails. Crossing more than 80 villages, the trail is a living thread of history, biodiversity, and cultural resilience. Through this

Walking offered what conversation could not yet provide: a way in, a way to begin to belong.

“It was risky,” she admits. “I never asked permission. But it was deeply transformative.” The students learned to trust their senses and find an ease with uncertainty

You don’t call it a “walk”. Instead, say things like “we’re going exploring”, “going on an adventure”, “climbing trees”, “looking for bear traces”, or “playing street games”. These sound much more appealing.

Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of hosting Lori Waxman, art critic and historian, at our online event Keep Walking Intently, inspired by Lori's book with the same name. The video registration is available online, and below you can find a writeup of Babak Fakhamzadeh's interview with Lori.

The 39 Steps writing competition Showcase was brilliantly hosted by Electra Rhodes a keen John Buchan enthusiastic who shared her passion for flash fiction as well as her long-held admiration for Buchan’s novel The Thirty Nine Steps, the inspiration for the competition. The 39 copy numbered limited chapbook anthology, edited by Annemarie Lopez, and beautifully

In early 2023, we hosted Teri Rueb and Bill Gilbert for an online cafe, called Being led by the stars, in which they shared a powerful and poetic conversation about their practices, which both revolve around walking, not merely as movement, but as a way of knowing, resisting, and reconnecting, bringing together a global audience to explore how walking art engages with celestial rhythms, climate anxieties, and questions of embodiment in the Anthropocene

Shortlists tend to be just that, ‘short lists’ however, for our Buchan-inspired writing competition we are asking you to pick your winner from 39 stories each of 39 words or fewer. Which is your favourite story?