The Trafford Hearing Voices Group is inviting everyone in and around Manchester affected by or living with voice hearing to participate in a new project.
Together with other Hearing Voices Peer Support groups in Manchester they want to create and publish a booklet with stories and poetry about hearing voices and similar experiences.
The hope is to create more understanding and offer hope to people struggling with their experiences.
We are looking for stories from different angles, it could be one of the themes below but maybe you have a different idea or something else to share, so please do. These are just for inspiration.
Also it’s important to say that we use the term ‘hearing voices’ very loosely and you may have a different way of talking about your experiences. We welcome anyone who hear, see or sense things whether you see it as external voices, parts, inner voices, entities, intrusive thoughts, hallucinations, spiritual, dissociation, persecution, mental illness or altered states of mind.
recovery,
life with voices,
when someone close to you hears voices,
being a parent when you hear voices,
experiences beyond hearing voices,
working or studying when you hear voices,
being young and hearing voices,
being older and hearing voices
coping with voices,
daily life when you hear voices,
bereavement and hearing voices
voices and dreams
Format
It could be in a format like this piece https://hearingvoicesmanchester.co.uk/2025/04/11/my-voices-and-what-i-did-to-overcome-them/
Or it could be poetry or creative writing.
We are not sure we can receive images or artwork as we have a limited budget for printing but if you do want to share your artwork about your experiences we might be able to publish it digitally on this website.
Length maximum 1500 words
Hopes
We are hoping that this booklet would be helpful to voice hearers, family and workers and that we can celebrate by holding a launch event in October 2025. The idea is that we can organise it as a space to read out and share personal stories to highlight all the different ways that people experience hearing voices, how it affect their lives and how we can find ways to cope and live with it.
GET IN TOUCH to express your interest in contributing you can use the form below
or by emailing hearingvoicesmanchester@gmail.com
Manchester Hearing Voices Network 