Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. She is also author of The Last Asylum,... 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
Christopher Hamilton-Emery and his wife Jen founded Salt, an independent publishing house based in Norfolk, 12 years ago. This month,... Read More
What can we say about Innocent Drink’s much-praised writing that hasn’t been said before? Hopefully something or you might as... Read More
To Manchester’s achingly hip Northern Quarter to meet Nick Asbury, a marketing copywriter with a broad range of clients and... Read More
John Simmons caught up with designer David Carroll, who created an appropriately flexible logo for Wordstock Deconstructed. David shared the... 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
On 1 November, 26 is teaming up with The Other Box and Wonderbly to put on an evening of inspiring... 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
On Friday 16 June, we held our first-ever popup Wordstock Deconstructed event at The Storytellers. The event was based on... Read More
Ahead of novelist Gillian Slovo’s appearance at 26’s Festival of Words, Wordstock on 8 October, we asked her to name... Read More
To leafy Leamington Spa, to interview design-savvy writer Jim Davies, who picked up a D&AD black pencil for his work... Read More
To east London, and Tim Rich’s live/work weavers’ cottage at the very end of Brick Lane. Built in the closing... 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
Paddington Station is a handsome rail terminus rich in industrial heritage, but even its best friends would acknowledge it’s not... 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
Jamie Delves has just won the 26 Emerging Writer Award. Sophie Gordon caught up with Jamie about the search for... 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
Amor Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for... 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
If there’s one person responsible for raising the profile of business copywriting and writing for design over the last decade... 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
Ahead of tonight’s 26 book launch with Room 121 authors, John and Jamie, we asked them about their writing life.... Read More
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock, Elen Lewis speaks to Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously about... 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
Many members of 26 are no strangers to working with designers. But what does the relationship with writing, writers and... 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
Elena Bowes interviews Joanna Walsh, author of Hotel and Vertigo about stories that are ‘unfoldable’ and the importance of writing... Read More
Ahead of his appearance at Wordstock next month, Elen Lewis interviewed John Yorke, author of storytelling bible, Into the Woods.... 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
For our latest project, 26 of our members were paired with historic writers from Norwich, England’s only City of Literature,... Read More
Skyfaring, A Journey with a Pilot, author, BA pilot and avid photographer takes readers into the cockpit and opens their... 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
Jonathan Ruppin is the web editor for Foyles Bookshops and a board member of the publisher And Other Stories. He... 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
Elena Bowes talked to LA-based writer Lori Gottlieb about her New York Times bestseller Maybe You Should Talk to Someone... 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
I shared the lift up to Ogilvy’s Docklands HQ with a young photographer clutching a portfolio the size of Rutland.... Read More
Day job Poet and creative consultant. I travel around the world writing poems, performing poems and helping other people to... Read More
Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright and performer. He is also a graphic designer and has created work for clients... Read More
26er Rishi Dastidar writes poems in his spare time. Alongside nine others, he has been shortlisted for Complete Works II,... Read More
Michael Wolff at 26: “I’ve been sacked twelve times. I’m very used to it.” One of the things Wally Olins... Read More
The Fall The Fall is an astonishing memoir. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo... Read More