Howard Jacobson is a brilliant speaker and a leading author, journalist and broadcaster. His writing is both serious and very funny. Or as he once put it, ‘”I’m a Jewish Jane Austen.” On 12 October the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction will be announced at London’s Guildhall and broadcast on BBC …more
The premiere of our 26 Seconds film project was held at Sanctum, Soho on the 22nd September. We’ll have a full write up and a video for you in next month’s newsletter. We can tell you that the collaboration of 26 writers and International Visual Communications Association (IVCA) filmmakers has produced some amazing pieces. The …more
Is the standard of business writing higher today than it was five years ago? Nick Asbury I think there’s undoubtedly been a general awakening about the importance of business writing over the last decade or so. For evidence, you only have to look at the proliferation of TOV guidelines, writing workshops, copywriting companies, and the …more
FLOAT, FLOAT ON… Here’s a slightly odd one, but something I find very useful when I’ve had a hard week, or I’ve got bogged down in the usual. Go shut yourself in a flotation tank in Southwark. You can spend an hour in complete silence and darkness, floating in water at 37°, with a solution …more
