Elena Bowes caught up with bestselling and award-winning author Lily King whose latest book Writers & Lovers follows 31-year-old Casey... Read More
Elena Bowes caught up with Debra Jo Immergut to discuss You Again, Immergut’s haunting page-turner where the protagonist 46-year-old married... Read More
Elena Bowes talks to bestselling author Erica Bauermeister about her recent memoir House Lessons. Bauermeister and her husband bought a... Read More
Elena Bowes talked to LA-based writer Lori Gottlieb about her New York Times bestseller Maybe You Should Talk to Someone... Read More
Many members of 26 are no strangers to working with designers. But what does the relationship with writing, writers and... Read More
On 1 November, 26 is teaming up with The Other Box and Wonderbly to put on an evening of inspiring... Read More
On Friday 16 June, we held our first-ever popup Wordstock Deconstructed event at The Storytellers. The event was based on... Read More
Preethi Nair, author, publicist and publisher, not to mention this year’s Wordstock Speaker Extraordinaire answered most of Elena Bowes’s questions.... Read More
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock, Elen Lewis speaks to Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously about... Read More
Hot on the heels of Adrian Hon’s star turn at this year’s Wordstock, associate editor, Elena Bowes spoke to the... Read More
Former 26 newsletter editor Nick Asbury tells Elen Lewis about his new exhibition, After Hours, some feel-good wisdom from his... Read More
26er Sarah Farley has been working hard behind the scenes on 26 Miles and 26 Treasures of Childhood. In an... Read More
Rebecca Swift is director and co-founder of The Literary Consultancy, which provides a manuscript assessment service for writers looking for... Read More
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 Read More
Elena Bowes catches up with bestselling author William Kent Krueger. His latest book This Tender Land, an epic gorgeous novel... Read More
Elena Bowes catches up with best-selling author Sue Miller about her latest novel- Monogamy. In Miller’s 11th novel she looks... Read More
Author Laura Zigman spoke to Elena Bowes about her latest book Separation Anxiety, Zigman’s fifth book after a 14-year writer’s... Read More
Elena Bowes caught up with Andrew Lownie, author of best-selling royal biography Their Lives and Loves, The Mountbattens, a fascinating... Read More
Amor Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for... Read More
John Simmons caught up with designer David Carroll, who created an appropriately flexible logo for Wordstock Deconstructed. David shared the... Read More
26’s editor talks to Sarah Butler about her award-winning sestude, Unknown Matron’s Mallet. Congratulations on becoming 26’s first project writer... Read More
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock next month, Elen Lewis interviewed John Yorke, author of storytelling bible, Into the Woods.... Read More
Skyfaring, A Journey with a Pilot, author, BA pilot and avid photographer takes readers into the cockpit and opens their... Read More
The Fall The Fall is an astonishing memoir. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo... Read More
26er Rishi Dastidar writes poems in his spare time. Alongside nine others, he has been shortlisted for Complete Works II,... Read More
Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright and performer. He is also a graphic designer and has created work for clients... Read More
Day job Poet and creative consultant. I travel around the world writing poems, performing poems and helping other people to... Read More
Jonathan Ruppin is the web editor for Foyles Bookshops and a board member of the publisher And Other Stories. He... Read More
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 Read More
Elena Bowes caught up with Scottish-born, Massachusetts-based writer Margot Livesey whose ninth novel, The Boy in the Field commences as... Read More
Elena Bowes caught up with author Maggie Doherty to discuss The Equivalents – A Story of Art, Female Friendship and... Read More
Best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld talks to Elena Bowes about her new book Rodham, imagining what life would have been like... Read More
At the heart of our 26 Trees project is a partnership with the Woodland Trust – to celebrate and raise... Read More
Jamie Delves has just won the 26 Emerging Writer Award. Sophie Gordon caught up with Jamie about the search for... Read More
Fashion Revolution is on the search for writers. Laura Hunter chats to Heather Knight, Fashion Revolution’s Head of Communications, about... Read More
Elena Bowes interviews Joanna Walsh, author of Hotel and Vertigo about stories that are ‘unfoldable’ and the importance of writing... Read More
Our very own Rob Self-Pierson has just published his first book, Twinned with… an adventure around the twin towns of... Read More
Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. She is also author of The Last Asylum,... Read More
Best-selling author and former Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson (MBE) is one of the 26 storytellers taking part in our 26... Read More
For our latest project, 26 of our members were paired with historic writers from Norwich, England’s only City of Literature,... Read More
What’s your day job? My day job is allovertheshop. I switch from brand consultancy, to copywriting, to design, to fiction,... Read More
Christopher Hamilton-Emery and his wife Jen founded Salt, an independent publishing house based in Norfolk, 12 years ago. This month,... Read More
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 Read More
John Mitchinson is the co-founder of Unbound, a revolutionary crowdfunding publishing concept. He is also the co-author of QI books... Read More
