For Milton Keynes residents and locals. As part of MK Lit Fest’s new project, Raising Voices, they’re running three workshops in centre:mk this summer for anyone aged 16+ to write about the city.

Do you enjoy observing and writing about places – be they your everyday surroundings or somewhere new and exciting? But could you do with some advice, structure and a bit of time to really concentrate on seeing what you can really do?

Join Milton Keynes-based writer John Grindrod for an inspiring, fun and productive creative non-fiction workshop. In the session you'll get advice about different approaches to writing about place, find new ways of tackling familiar topics, and encouragement to help motivate you in your writing. From countryside to cityscape, suburban streets to thundering motorways, the most spectacular view to the cosiest room, see Milton Keynes through new eyes with tips and techniques to get you observing, thinking and writing about your surroundings afresh – whatever they might be.

This two hour workshop will include writing exercises and prompts, and you will have opportunities after the event to submit writing that it has inspired to MK Lit Fest's Raising Voices Project, which is developing an online interactive audio-visual map of people's responses to and relationships with particular locations across our home city. Free to attend but booking esential.