Walking writing
Highlights
New Year’s Day, 2026 – 6 miles, Lee Valley Park, UK
We welcome Penny Walker, 2026 story writer-in-residence, who invites you discover a chilly morning walk We didn’t see in the New Year. We woke long before dawn to drop our daughter and her husband at the airport. At South Mimms services the universe rewards us with veggie sausages, a cyber pink sunrise and the year’s
Walking Writers Circle – Walking In the Dark
An Invitation Only event for shortlisted authors in the Walking In the Dark writing competition with VIP guests. VIP guests include Damaris West, our current writer-in-residence for poetry, and poet Marcelle Newbold, who was a volunteer competition judge. They will be joined by Eléonore Ozanne instigator of the global action Women walking, the City, at
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Walking in Supermarkets
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
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Books
Articles on WLC
Who is walking in the dark?
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
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László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes · Story: ‘There Goes Valzer’
A story about walking from the 2025 Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai… My name is Róbert Valzer and I like walking, not that I have anything to do with the famous Robert Walser, nor do I think it strange that walking should be my favourite hobby. I call it a hobby but I accept –
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Walking the Shadow City: Taran Khan’s path through Kabul’s streets, into its soul
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
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Events
Sound Walk Stories Sunday: ‘Write About Walking A/way’ showcase
Hosted by R M Francis the Write About Walking A/way showcase event introduces the shortlisted authors of the walk · listen · create / Sound Walk September writing competition, and includes readings of their poetry and prose. Run in conjuction with Sampson Low Publishers, the walk · listen · create writing competition attracted scores of
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