A weekend writing session. Max’s notebook and a Paddington-inspired coffee-shop doodle. Inspired by Anushka Shah’s article last month, Max Parfitt...
Image by Thought Catalog on Unsplash (Left), and AI response (Right) At 26 we’re always looking to explore this question...
Finding Value A few weeks ago I went to visit a friend. A lawyer or judge all his life, in...
Over the last couple of months, we’ve been playing with poetic forms. First, we stripped poems back to a single...
We often share our members’ news and recommendations at 26 – in fact we share both almost every month. However,...
Invitation 1: Summer Diaries We often share our members’ news and recommendations at 26 – in fact we share both...
Last month, John Simmons published a new volume of poetry inspired by the Spanish city of Seville. Discussing the collection,...
26’s big project to launch us into 2026 with a bang is on the brink of going public. Some 70...
This month’s festive mini-project invited us to either… And the next day would be Christmas,a world lovely as a fairy...
Our new editor Max Parfitt is running a series of mini-projects through the monthly newsletter. This is the first. Paul...
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash This month’s mini-project was inspired by last month’s article by Rob Self-Pierson, describing his...
26 has always focussed on the importance of letters. But what if that 26 became 22? What if we had...
Back in 2015, 26 of our writers were partnered with 26 carefully selected postcodes, each with a literary significance (Shakespeare’s birthplace,...
At this year’s Wordstock, 50 poets, writers, and creatives, all passionate about words, gathered at Conway Hall Library in Bloomsbury....
A Creative Writing Project: Page 26 Line 26 Paul White and 26’s New Zealand chapter have been playing with the...
And the next day would be Christmas,a world lovely as a fairy tale.translucent marzipan castles with larders stocked (fudge and peppermint)....
David BowenA Reading from GrandmaBook: Woman: Her charm and power When my sisters and I cleared out our parents’ house,...
We often share our members’ news and recommendations at 26 – in fact we share both almost every month. However,...
For the first mini-project of 2025, we asked for “A New Year’s Reading List.” 4 books, either on your reading...
Writing gains power from place. Last month, John Simmons published a new volume of poetry inspired by the Spanish city...