Michael Wolff at 26: “I’ve been sacked twelve times. I’m very used to it.” One of the things Wally Olins...
To east London, and Tim Rich’s live/work weavers’ cottage at the very end of Brick Lane. Built in the closing...
Paddington Station is a handsome rail terminus rich in industrial heritage, but even its best friends would acknowledge it’s not...
Ahead of novelist Gillian Slovo’s appearance at 26’s Festival of Words, Wordstock on 8 October, we asked her to name...
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
Jonathan Ruppin is the web editor for Foyles Bookshops and a board member of the publisher And Other Stories. He...
Christopher Hamilton-Emery and his wife Jen founded Salt, an independent publishing house based in Norfolk, 12 years ago. This month,...
What’s your day job? My day job is allovertheshop. I switch from brand consultancy, to copywriting, to design, to fiction,...
For our latest project, 26 of our members were paired with historic writers from Norwich, England’s only City of Literature,...
Best-selling author and former Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson (MBE) is one of the 26 storytellers taking part in our 26...
Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. She is also author of The Last Asylum,...
Our very own Rob Self-Pierson has just published his first book, Twinned with… an adventure around the twin towns of...
Elena Bowes interviews Joanna Walsh, author of Hotel and Vertigo about stories that are ‘unfoldable’ and the importance of writing...
On Friday 16 June, we held our first-ever popup Wordstock Deconstructed event at The Storytellers. The event was based on...
On 1 November, 26 is teaming up with The Other Box and Wonderbly to put on an evening of inspiring...
What can we say about Innocent Drink’s much-praised writing that hasn’t been said before? Hopefully something or you might as...
To Manchester’s achingly hip Northern Quarter to meet Nick Asbury, a marketing copywriter with a broad range of clients and...
If there’s one person responsible for raising the profile of business copywriting and writing for design over the last decade...
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
Day job Poet and creative consultant. I travel around the world writing poems, performing poems and helping other people to...
Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright and performer. He is also a graphic designer and has created work for clients...
26er Rishi Dastidar writes poems in his spare time. Alongside nine others, he has been shortlisted for Complete Works II,...
The Fall The Fall is an astonishing memoir. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo...
Skyfaring, A Journey with a Pilot, author, BA pilot and avid photographer takes readers into the cockpit and opens their...
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock next month, Elen Lewis interviewed John Yorke, author of storytelling bible, Into the Woods....
26’s editor talks to Sarah Butler about her award-winning sestude, Unknown Matron’s Mallet. Congratulations on becoming 26’s first project writer...
Fashion Revolution is on the search for writers. Laura Hunter chats to Heather Knight, Fashion Revolution’s Head of Communications, about...
Jamie Delves has just won the 26 Emerging Writer Award. Sophie Gordon caught up with Jamie about the search for...
I shared the lift up to Ogilvy’s Docklands HQ with a young photographer clutching a portfolio the size of Rutland....
To leafy Leamington Spa, to interview design-savvy writer Jim Davies, who picked up a D&AD black pencil for his work...
Ahead of tonight’s 26 book launch with Room 121 authors, John and Jamie, we asked them about their writing life....
John Mitchinson is the co-founder of Unbound, a revolutionary crowdfunding publishing concept. He is also the co-author of QI books...
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
Rhian Harris, director of the Museum of Childhood, is the brains behind the Modern British Childhood exhibition where 26 writers...
Rebecca Swift is director and co-founder of The Literary Consultancy, which provides a manuscript assessment service for writers looking for...
26er Sarah Farley has been working hard behind the scenes on 26 Miles and 26 Treasures of Childhood. In an...
Former 26 newsletter editor Nick Asbury tells Elen Lewis about his new exhibition, After Hours, some feel-good wisdom from his...
Hot on the heels of Adrian Hon’s star turn at this year’s Wordstock, associate editor, Elena Bowes spoke to the...
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock, Elen Lewis speaks to Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously about...
Preethi Nair, author, publicist and publisher, not to mention this year’s Wordstock Speaker Extraordinaire answered most of Elena Bowes’s questions....
Elena Bowes talks to our very own John Simmons about his new novel, Spanish Crossings. Describe what you do in...
John Simmons caught up with designer David Carroll, who created an appropriately flexible logo for Wordstock Deconstructed. David shared the...
Amor Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for...