I’m running #ScottishEBookDay on Twitter on May 27th to celebrate and promote Scottish publishing. Offers, interviews, good old-fashioned chat about...
Sidekick Books, the press I co-run, has been nominated for the Saboteur Awards in the Most Innovative Publisher and Best...
The London Writers Awards is Spread the Word’s new annual development programme for talented London writers. Currently open for application,...
Firstly, a tip-off from John Simmons… The Creative Future Writers’ Awards is the UK’s only national competition for all underrepresented...
In honour of poet Lisel Mueller’s birthday this month, Tim Rich recommends delving into her work. A few of my...
As far as I’m concerned, deserving the title of ‘most-eagerly awaited release of 2021’ will be Laurent Binet’s Civilisations because...
This month, in addition to other recommendations, I asked what books you return to again and again. It might be...
I’m very excited that my debut novel will be published on 29 October. Talk of the Toun is an uplifting...
My second collection came out with Bloodaxe in March, and a poem from it was the Guardian’s Saturday Poem. Inspired...
19th September 2015, the day I ran my first 5k Parkrun in Bushy Park. Six months before my 40th Heart...
Sidekick Books is about to launch Lives Beyond Us, an anthology of poetry and essays on animals in cinema, co-edited...
Argentum Apothecary – the multi-award winning skincare brand – are seeking their first full-time copywriter. Could it be you? The...
We’re all for a bit of traditional Christmas spirit – Mummers plays, carol singers, roast turkeys, wrapped presents, another pair...
MAKING IF FUNNY: a comedy writing workshop with Nigel Planer and Sally Phillips. 30TH JULY – 6TH AUGUST 2016 CASA...
Creative retreats with international teachers including Dark Angel and 26er Neil Baker here in the gardens of Riverheart Retreats. Painting,...
A choir of angels gathered in Gospel Oak earlier this month to celebrate the launch of On Writing, the book...
As we mentioned last month, 26 member Roger Horberry has new ebook out that delves into that most mysterious of...
I’m obsessed with botanical art at the moment – the lush, overwhelming sensuality of flowers depicted in incredibly precise scientific...
I recommend the film The trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix which is based on the infamous 1969 trial...
My best read over recent weeks has been Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, the story of Shakespeares’s family life in Stratford in...
I’m watching Jimmy McGovern’s stark prison drama ‘Time’ on iPlayer. Not the lightest of TV, I’d say, but if you’re...
It’s not on my reading pile yet but a friend of mine, David Bodanis, is launching his new book tomorrow....
As one of the ‘Explore’ writers in the forthcoming 26 Trees project I got the chance to choose ‘my’ tree....
I’m travelling around and seeing many different museums, with a new aim to learn at least one fact per museum....
I am trying to finally put together the many scribblings I’ve accumulated over the last few years and write that...
Is we the new I? asks soon-to-be collaborative author, Paul Redstone? In a daring collaboration with 14 other writers, Redstone...
Elise’s novel The Madonna of the Mountains is on the national fiction shortlist for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019....
At Sidekick Books, we’ve just finished a massive six-year four-volume project called Birdbook, in which we commissioned one poem and...
I’m participating in an interdisciplinary project highlighting ecological issues of human impacts on the marine environment (a.k.a climate change). The...
Travel isn’t just about going places. It’s about the experiences you have, and the people you meet. That’s the idea...
Writing and Wine Day with Chapel Down On July 20 you’ll be guided through a range of writing practices and...
The Other Mrs Walker is out in the world. An old lady dies leaving nothing but an emerald dress, an...
John Simmons has news from Edinburgh, where he also spotted the above 26, in Milnes Bar: I gave a talk/reading...
A book on poetic craft I’ve edited, called um The Craft, published last week through Nine Arches Press. It’s the...
This month’s recommendations include a handy of list of ‘books of the year’ as championed by members at our Christmas...
I took a short story workshop via Zoom in August, with author Edward Hogan (longlisted for this year’s Sunday Times...
If you or a young adult reader is looking for a spooky Halloween read, I recommend Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard...
I’m about halfway through Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet (finally!) and it really is as good as everyone says it is!. Finally...
I’m in Aarhus, doing some work for the Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture programme. There are several projects within...
I’ve been working with school children from Doune Primary school (who joined me for 26Twits) and community elders to create...
I unexpectedly took up visual art last year, after a hiatus of nearly 25 years. I recently sold six of...
We’re doing an Advent Calendar of diabolical mixtures over at Sidekick Books, including Twitterbots splicing unlikely poetry bedfellows, play-poems and...
Here’s a wonderful opportunity for a 26 member aged 26 or under. Dark Angels, the training programme that aims to...
26’s historian, Justina Hart, took her writing to Australia for two weeks this year, thanks to a grant from Arts...
The Playing Place 26 March – 25 April, Truro, Cornwall In the middle of Lemon Quay, the main shopping area...
When Pete Kirby, one of our members from the South West, mentioned that he planned to plonk lots of shipping...
My news is that I’m going to be President of the D&AD Writing for Design Awards jury this April, along...
This is part of wider “Strange Creatures After Hours” events 16 March-27 June 2015. The Crystal Palace dinosaur models were...