Walk to Write

A walk through the park, using writing to explore how movement, attention and place can open up new ways of seeing and writing.

Join Taran Khan for Walk to Write, a 90-minute guided session in Crystal Palace Park, exploring how walking, attention and place can open up new ways of writing.

You will interact with sensory cues and objects on the route to explore how moving through a space can generate ideas, images and stories.

This event is based on Taran's writing-and-walking teaching approach developed with different groups of non-professional writers, including Afghan women writers at risk. It explores how walking can unlock new ideas and push through creative blocks, and helps participants transform their experience of passing through a place into new stories.

For this event, Taran has adapted that approach into a 90-minute session in Crystal Palace Park. The shorter format will focus on the central relationship between walking, attention, place and writing, with a small number of accessible prompts.

Taran is interested in the location of the Crystal Palace Park as it contains a range of landscapes, histories and conflicting narratives to encounter while walking.