http://www.26.org.uk 26 is here to inspire a greater love of words, in business and in life Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:01:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/the-26-noticeboard/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/the-26-noticeboard/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:00:47 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5344 This is the place where you find news and events around all things 26, from July’s Pecha Kucha, to Wordstock on film to a new project called 26 Letters and the ripple effect of 26 Treasures of Childhood.   Pecha Kucha It’s 26… it’s the Betsey Trotwood… it can only mean more of that pecha [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/the-26-noticeboard/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/spotlight-tom-lynham/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/spotlight-tom-lynham/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:16:45 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5386 26 co-founder Tom Lynham is better at describing what he’s not, whether it’s ex-woodworker or ex-musician, and add to that ex-26 Company Secretary. Fortunately, he hasn’t added ‘writer’ to his list of exes and is working on another word installation at the Southbank Centre for this summer.   What’s your day job? Corporate psychotherapist.   [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/spotlight-tom-lynham/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/battling-with-the-blank-page/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/battling-with-the-blank-page/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:07:20 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5337 Virginia Woolf said that, ‘to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty…dogs will bark, people will interrupt, money must be made.’ 26ers discuss the struggle of putting pen to paper and share their tips to overcome it. Mike Reed In terms of getting that novel, screenplay, whatever out from [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/battling-with-the-blank-page/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/a-letter-to-dad/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/a-letter-to-dad/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:01:17 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5390 In the fourth of our series  ‘The Story Works’ with D&AD, John Fountain remembers poignantly how his tough builder father reacted 35 years ago when Fountain told him he wanted to be a copywriter. The Rocky Mountain Wolf appeared late one afternoon on the London Road, Isleworth. It stood motionless a few yards from my [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/a-letter-to-dad/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/three-ways-to-help-your-organisation-take-to-a-new-brand-tone-of-voice/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/three-ways-to-help-your-organisation-take-to-a-new-brand-tone-of-voice/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:00:16 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5394 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/three-ways-to-help-your-organisation-take-to-a-new-brand-tone-of-voice/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/designer-breakfasts-e-is-for-empathy/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/designer-breakfasts-e-is-for-empathy/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:58:54 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5397 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/designer-breakfasts-e-is-for-empathy/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/new-members-for-april/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/new-members-for-april/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:54:58 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5409 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/new-members-for-april/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/members-news-and-events/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/members-news-and-events/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:38:40 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5375 From speaking on Radio 4’s Women’s Hour to stabbing dictionaries, 26ers are keeping busy, and look out for some courses to inspire   Dark Angels Scholarship Your chance to win a free place on a Dark Angels course! Dark Angels are offering a scholarship for the Intensive Foundation course at the lovely Highgreen Manor, Northumbria, [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/members-news-and-events/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/26ers-recommend/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/26ers-recommend/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:27:19 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5362 Poignant prose, French film and best British novelists. 26 members share their recommendations with you.   A rainy day read If you’re feeling romantic try The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker. Set in Burma between the 1950s and present day, it’s an intriguing story about a NY lawyer who goes missing. When his [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/26ers-recommend/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/march-2013-hello-my-name-is-26-and-im-addicted-to-notebooks/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/march-2013-hello-my-name-is-26-and-im-addicted-to-notebooks/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:34:20 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5435 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/04/march-2013-hello-my-name-is-26-and-im-addicted-to-notebooks/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/found-and-unfinished/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/found-and-unfinished/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:58:29 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5223 In the third of our series ‘The Story Works’ with D&AD, Fraser Southey tells the life story of a storyteller in 10 ‘Once Upon a Times’ Read Fraser’s piece at D&AD]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/found-and-unfinished/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/news-and-events-3/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/news-and-events-3/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:57:45 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5277 There’s no hibernating for 26’s members; the month is brimming with creative projects, conferences and book launches. And after work, comes play with news of sunny Spain.   Mudlarking on the Thames foreshore The other day, Andy Hayes gathered together his 26 Milers at the Samuel Pepys to celebrate the project’s online launch. The pub’s [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/news-and-events-3/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/spotlight-rishi/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/spotlight-rishi/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:56:42 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5250 26er Rishi Dastidar writes poems in his spare time. Alongside nine others, he has been shortlisted for Complete Works II, a national development programme for advanced Black and Asian poets culminating in a final anthology published by Bloodaxe. He talks to Elen Lewis about winnowing down his couplets and why he thinks the best collective [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/spotlight-rishi/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/favourite-things/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/favourite-things/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:55:30 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5253 We bring you recommendations from Toulouse to the Netherlands, from Dante to Dabbawallas and Dovlatov’s ‘The Suitcase, from blissful places to the sticky topic of peanut butter.   Nora Ephron’s final act Nora Ephron’s son Jacob Bernstein writes movingly about his mother’s last days in his article Nora Ephron’s Final Act for the New York [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/favourite-things/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/26-noticeboard-2/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/26-noticeboard-2/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:54:32 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5226 News and announcements from this parish, including revisiting our first project: 26 letters, Throwaway Lines the Second, 26 Miles putting on its slippers and Norwich editors chomping at the bit (cf Black Beauty)   26 presents Tessa Ross Join us at The Free Word Centre, Farringdon, London on Wednesday 5 June at 6:15pm to hear [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/26-noticeboard-2/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/a-writers-notebook/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/a-writers-notebook/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:48:01 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5240 Moleskine or bus ticket, Rymans or Redstone, plain paper or gridded, 26ers get under the skin of something close to our hearts – the notebook.   Anne Aylor I’m a Ryman’s girl. Habit started on May 1979. First line in writer’s notebook No 1: “If you are afraid of loneliness don’t marry” Anton Chekhov as quoted [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/a-writers-notebook/feed/ 10 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/saying-yes-saying-no/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/saying-yes-saying-no/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:45:40 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5231 In the next of our series from 26’s collaboration with Designer Breakfasts, Fiona Thompson listens to a debate among designers on rejecting and accepting work. Money, chemistry and your internal hypocrisy meter – how do you respond to the offer of new projects?   Three ways to react to a phone call. 1. You feel [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/saying-yes-saying-no/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/three-ways-to-work-a-four-day-week/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/three-ways-to-work-a-four-day-week/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:43:36 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5248 Andy Hayes, client services director at Quietroom works a four-day week, giving him time to do the washing up and create projects like 26 Miles, Throwaway Lines at 26. One Work for a company that values your experience as much as your time. I feel lucky I stumbled upon Quietroom, after 20 years working in [...]]]> http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/three-ways-to-work-a-four-day-week/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/new-members-for-march/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/new-members-for-march/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:15:32 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5234 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/new-members-for-march/feed/ 0 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/february-2013-the-storyteller-as-midwife-toasting-26-miles-and-the-final-word-lies-with-the-last-days-of-disco/ http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/february-2013-the-storyteller-as-midwife-toasting-26-miles-and-the-final-word-lies-with-the-last-days-of-disco/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:49:45 +0000 rachel3635 http://www.26.org.uk/?p=5330 http://www.26.org.uk/index.php/2013/03/february-2013-the-storyteller-as-midwife-toasting-26-miles-and-the-final-word-lies-with-the-last-days-of-disco/feed/ 0