~ Stories for Strangers ~

Where do stories come from? Do they ever end? Using the lemniscate and ampersand symbols as starting points, Luke Winter asks how stories and journeys are similar in this visual art exhibition

Word Gets Around, @ Stove Network, Dumfries, 20 July - 8 August 2026.

Writing for perfect strangers, Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025.

Portrait by Chris Close.

Telling stories in schools across Scotland with the National Literacy Trust.

as Writer in residence for Wild Goose Festival, Dumfries.

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they’ve got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war, 2023, multifold zine, 16 pages. Buy here.

Story in Spam’s Brilliant Vibrating Interface, 2023.

sound: shane mckenna

images & words: luke winter

Story Wagon tours to help writing and storytelling happen in public spaces.