What does it take to craft a pacey psychological thriller? As a finalist in the People’s Prize for Fiction and...
How do you think being a poet affects one’s prose, and being a writer affect one’s poetry? What a difficult,...
Preethi Nair, author, publicist and publisher, not to mention this year’s Wordstock Speaker Extraordinaire answered most of Elena Bowes’s questions....
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock, Elen Lewis speaks to Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously about...
Hot on the heels of Adrian Hon’s star turn at this year’s Wordstock, associate editor, Elena Bowes spoke to the...
Former 26 newsletter editor Nick Asbury tells Elen Lewis about his new exhibition, After Hours, some feel-good wisdom from his...
26er Sarah Farley has been working hard behind the scenes on 26 Miles and 26 Treasures of Childhood. In an...
Rebecca Swift is director and co-founder of The Literary Consultancy, which provides a manuscript assessment service for writers looking for...
Rhian Harris, director of the Museum of Childhood, is the brains behind the Modern British Childhood exhibition where 26 writers...
Charles Boyle is the founder and 'one-man press' of CB editions, a small, eclectic imprint that was initially launched to give a home to books that nobody else would publish and has become a well-respected publisher of first-class tastes bringing us David Markson's 'This is Not a Novel' and Gert Hoffman's 'Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl'. Charles talks to Elen Lewis about the power of individual sentences ...more
John Mitchinson is the co-founder of Unbound, a revolutionary crowdfunding publishing concept. He is also the co-author of QI books...
Ahead of tonight’s 26 book launch with Room 121 authors, John and Jamie, we asked them about their writing life....
To leafy Leamington Spa, to interview design-savvy writer Jim Davies, who picked up a D&AD black pencil for his work...
I shared the lift up to Ogilvy’s Docklands HQ with a young photographer clutching a portfolio the size of Rutland....
Michelle Cahill, a Goan-Anglo-Indian writer who lives in Sydney, talks to Elena Bowes about her first collection of short stories,...
Elena Bowes talks to the bestselling novelist Julia Stuart about her latest book, The Last Pearl Fisher of Scotland. The...
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock next month, Elen Lewis interviewed John Yorke, author of storytelling bible, Into the Woods....
Skyfaring, A Journey with a Pilot, author, BA pilot and avid photographer takes readers into the cockpit and opens their...
The Fall The Fall is an astonishing memoir. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo...
26er Rishi Dastidar writes poems in his spare time. Alongside nine others, he has been shortlisted for Complete Works II,...
Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright and performer. He is also a graphic designer and has created work for clients...
Day job Poet and creative consultant. I travel around the world writing poems, performing poems and helping other people to...
Alice LaPlante is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She teaches creative writing at Stanford University and recently won the Wellcome trust Book Prize for 2011 for her debut novel Turn of Mind. Here she talks to Elen Lewis about how her business writing informs her fiction and what all first-time novelists should know. ...more
If there’s one person responsible for raising the profile of business copywriting and writing for design over the last decade...
To Manchester’s achingly hip Northern Quarter to meet Nick Asbury, a marketing copywriter with a broad range of clients and...
What can we say about Innocent Drink’s much-praised writing that hasn’t been said before? Hopefully something or you might as...
Describe your latest book How to Write Like Tolstoy, a Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers in 26...
Elena Bowes interviews Joanna Walsh, author of Hotel and Vertigo about stories that are ‘unfoldable’ and the importance of writing...
Our very own Rob Self-Pierson has just published his first book, Twinned with… an adventure around the twin towns of...
Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. She is also author of The Last Asylum,...
Best-selling author and former Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson (MBE) is one of the 26 storytellers taking part in our 26...
For our latest project, 26 of our members were paired with historic writers from Norwich, England’s only City of Literature,...
What’s your day job? My day job is allovertheshop. I switch from brand consultancy, to copywriting, to design, to fiction,...
Christopher Hamilton-Emery and his wife Jen founded Salt, an independent publishing house based in Norfolk, 12 years ago. This month,...
Jonathan Ruppin is the web editor for Foyles Bookshops and a board member of the publisher And Other Stories. He...
In this month’s profile of a 26 member, we talk to Nick Parker, creative director of The Writer and author of The Exploding Boy. Here, Nick reveals how his self published short stories got reviewed by The Guardian....more
Ahead of novelist Gillian Slovo’s appearance at 26’s Festival of Words, Wordstock on 8 October, we asked her to name...
Paddington Station is a handsome rail terminus rich in industrial heritage, but even its best friends would acknowledge it’s not...
To east London, and Tim Rich’s live/work weavers’ cottage at the very end of Brick Lane. Built in the closing...
Michael Wolff at 26: “I’ve been sacked twelve times. I’m very used to it.” One of the things Wally Olins...
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