At the Sound Walk Stories Sunday showcase event of new writing, at which the shortlisted poems and stories from our 2023 Walking A/way themed writing competition, were read by their inspiring authors, we learnt which of them walked away with the prizes.

Asked to write concisely about walking away or walking a way, we had more than 60 poems and flash stories submitted to our 2023 Write about Walking writing competition from which our four volunteer judges, Tony Horitz and Ralph Hoyte (for poetry) and Cheryl Markosky and S A Greene (for prose) have selected a long list of 21 pieces.