Hulked is a creative heritage project inspired by the histories, stories and songs of the Thames Barges, many of which are now ‘hulked’ along the Medway River.

Reading Geert Vermeire‘s latest newsletter, I was struck with how important walking art and walking artists have been in acknowledging those unfortunate people who have had to leave their homes, often migrating over vast distances, or switching to cultures unlike their own, learning new languages and how to get about day to day among people,

Write a haiku – post it to Bluesky – a chance to win books by Wainwright Prize nominees Chantal Lyons, Polly Atkin and Sophie Yeo

The sound walk The Graveyard Digression asks the question “What can a cemetery teach us?”, as well as others, in an approximately 30 minute long sound journey passing through St. Pauli Southern Cemetery in Malmö.

Stories of Place, Community and Environment (SPACE) Walk, facilitated by Kim V. Goldsmith, is an act of walking together with different knowledge holders and community change-makers to creatively explore the local landscape and consider future possibilities for farming, the environment, the community, and the wider region.

The sound walk Along These Lines is a collaboration between Quiet Down There and sound artist Anna Celeste Edmonds, creating an immersive experience that explores Brighton’s laundry heritage.

With The Living and Tender Flesh, Laura Khan Mitchison created a sound walk set in London’s Brompton Cemetery, and with this, she continues her collection of interventions connected to where the dead reside.

With her sound walk Weeds are Community, Lúcia Harley created an invitation to look closer at the organic fabric around us through weeds: plants you might overlook every day as they seek sanctuary in walls, reach up from drains and push through cracks in the pavement.

With Shore Land, JeeYeung Lee has created a sound walk that contemplates Chicago’s lakefront as a liminal space between land and water, simultaneously a public good, treaty violation, and strategy to suppress insurgence.

Our amazing Online Jury, drawn from our community of over 1900 contributing walking artists, committed considerable time to reviewing each of this year’s submissions for the Marŝarto Awards. And, we have a shortlist!

In the audio paper Soundwalking, listening and contested histories, Joseph Young explores how sound art and specifically sound walking practices in the landscape can contribute to the discussion of contested histories through the creation of immersive sonic encounters.

With Only glaciers know, Yanran Bi discusses the complicated interconnections between human beings and the landscape of Iceland through a sonic documentary and poetic fiction.

Between October 25 and 27, 2024, the WALC partners came together in Gaasbeek, Belgium, not too far from the capital Brussels.

The London-based Natural History Museum has put together a sound walk for its new gardens, designed with blind and visually impaired audiences in mind. In it, you hear from scientists, staff and other experts, the stories contained within the gardens, as well as poems created by visually impaired young individuals.

A City Full of Stories is an immersive audio experience, starting at St-Martin-in-the-Fields Church, in London, and was put together with individuals experiencing homelessness.

With Os Andares, a group of theater, documentary film, poetry, and music artists produced six sound walks in some of the most magical spaces of the Ancares Mountains of Lugo, in Spain.

In Mrs. Dalby and the Gravekeeper of Hatteras Island, Blake Pfeil takes the listener on a fantastical walk to the ruins of a seaside shanty, standing proudly on the edge of a graveyard overlooking the mighty Atlantic Ocean in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Our Online Jury narrowed down this year’s 73 submission to a shortlist of 15 pieces, 13 of which are eligible for the SWS24 Awards.

In a Community-based approach to artistic practice, there are no objects, no artists, no materials, no ideas, and no skills; there is only the Community and its needs.

From scores of submissions our volunteer judges have selected a shortlist of six poems and six stories in our Write about Walking competition.