2025 marked the 21st birthday of StonyWords. What’s the best way to avoid the dark January blues? Have a festival – that was the thinking behind our celebrations and it remains central today. Over a fortnight, 17 organisations and individuals put on 34 events at seven venues around the town.
There was music, drama, film, story-telling for adults and for children, the election of the Stony Stratford Bard and fifteen visiting writers talking about their books with subjects as varied as Robert Cecil, the decade when England was a republic, Dickens’ last unfinished novel, and food and class.
Some events were ticketed, some free and some asked for donations. All provided a little light in the January gloom. Oh, and the festival in 2026 will run from January 16 to February 1.
Thank you to our friends at StonyWords for this piece. Are you an AHA-MK Member – interested in a Guest Blog feature? Email camille@aha-mk.org