Quiet Stories is a new independent audio storytelling project gathering short, anonymous voice note reflections from people around the world.

Contributors are invited to respond to a carefully framed question in their own voice (up to 90 seconds), with no names, no faces, and no need for anything polished.

Anonymous, not because the voice does not matter, but because sometimes the story becomes easier to hear when we meet it before we meet the person.‍

Selected recordings will be lightly edited and shared as part of a growing online audio archive, with contributors remaining anonymous.

The project is creating a growing archive of everyday human experience, made up of small memories, private thoughts, quiet realisations, and moments of change, humour, loss, belonging, and reflection.

Anyone aged 18+ is welcome to take part.

Find out more and submit a voice note here

You can also follow the project on Instagram and YouTube