This year we asked 12 writers to take a photo at either 8.30am or 8.30pm and then compose a piece of writing to accompany the image, drawing inspiration from Teju Cole's words: “.. what is then interesting is to find, in that continuity, the less-obvious: the signs, the markings, the assemblages, the things hiding in plain sight in each cityscape”.

The images + essays were presented at Eight Thirty cafe in High Street as part of the Walk on High event on Friday 19 May 2017. Each image was published on the festival's Insta account with an extract from the writing along with it.

Here we have collected up the full versions of each author's 8.30 inspiration and published them together. Enjoy!